BAPEN Connect: Clinical Nutrition Webinars

Webinar Series: Advancing Clinical Nutrition Knowledge and Practice

BAPEN delivers a monthly webinar designed for healthcare professionals, nutritional scientists, and anyone passionate about clinical nutrition. The series features expert-led discussions, cutting-edge research insights, and practical strategies to enhance nutritional care.

Aims

• To provide evidence-based education in clinical nutrition for healthcare professionals, nutritional scientists and healthcare students.
• To highlight the importance of good nutrition and the implications of malnutrition on patient outcomes in all clinical settings.

Each session tackles key topics such as:

• Managing malnutrition in diverse populations.
• Innovations in artificial nutrition and hydration.
• Multidisciplinary approaches to improving patient outcomes.

The next webinar will be on Wednesday 16^th September 12:30 – 13:30 Management of Patients with Kidney Disease needing Parenteral Nutrition (PN) and an update on PN competencies for dietitians.

Speakers

Management of Patients with Kidney Disease needing Parenteral Nutrition (PN)

• Bruno Mafrici, Clinical Specialist Renal Dietitian and Post Graduate Researcher (PhD Candidate), University Hospitals of Nottingham NHS Trust

PN Competency Framework for Dietitians

• Melanie Toon, Senior Specialist Dietitian, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
• Lisa Gemmell, Advanced Lead Dietitian in Home Parenteral Nutrition and Intestinal Failure, NMP, Newcastle Hospitals
• Kirstine Farrer, Consultant Dietitian Intestinal Failure, Salford Royal Foundation Trust

Bruno Mafrici

Bruno is a Kidney dietitian who graduated in Pavia, Italy, in 2002. He has been working in Nottingham since 2006 at the Renal and Transplantation Unit at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. Bruno looks after the nutritional needs of people with kidney disease. He gained his MSc in 2013 and his non-medical prescriber status in 2021. Since then, he has implemented this new practice at the dialysis unit where he works. He is also a lecturer for clinical nutrition and dietetics at ten UK Universities. He is the author and editor of the Pocket Guide to Clinical Nutrition (2018) of the PENG Group. Bruno is currently conducting his PhD at the University of Nottingham, at the Centre for Kidney Research and Innovation, looking at the nutritional losses and the role of supplementation in people receiving maintenance dialysis. He is also the cofounder of Kidney Nutrition Matters.

Lisa Gemmell

Lisa graduated from Glasgow Caledonian University in 2003 with a PGDip in Dietetics. She is currently the advanced lead dietitian for the intestinal failure service in Newcastle. She has over 20 years’ experience working with patients with intestinal failure. She works within a highly specialised MDT that care for patients with complex parenteral and enteral requirements.

Lisa is part of the expert panel for BAPEN’s virtual nutrition team. She is a member of the British Intestinal Failure Alliance (BIFA), which is a specialist interest group of BAPEN. She also reviews abstracts for BAPEN’s annual conference.

Lisa teaches on the Queen Margaret University, PENG clinical update course.  She is the lead dietitian within PENG for parenteral nutrition. She is involved in audit and research in HPN and intestinal failure and has had abstracts accepted for publication. She is non-medical prescriber. She has led on the development of new competencies for dietitians working with patients receiving parenteral nutrition.

Melanie Toon

Melanie has extensive experience in the management of parenteral nutrition (PN) and intestinal failure, becoming a supplementary non-medical prescriber in 2018.  She combines her clinical role within Leicester’s Intestinal Failure Team with research and has recently completed a PhD evaluating parenteral requirements, intakes and influences on home PN prescribing in adults with chronic intestinal failure. Locally she has led on projects to increase inpatient use of multi-chamber PN across the trust. 

As a committee member of the British Dietetic Association Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition Group (PENG) she has been involved in various workstreams, including authoring the PN chapter in the clinical handbook and tutoring on the clinical update course. She is also East Midlands regional BAPEN representative

Upcoming Webinars

Topics and speakers for each webinar are added as we move through the year, and you are able to register for the full 2026 series. Each month you will receive a link to that webinar and if you are unable to attend, members can watch online and non-members can pay to view.

• Topics may alter slightly
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