Join an interactive clinical nutrition training program led by international experts.
This course will help you learn the newest, cutting-edge science on nutrition risk identification and the latest evidence-based nutrition care of pediatric and adult patients. Course modules will create an exclusive relationship between international clinical nutrition leaders and attendees to share experience and expertise on how best to optimize patient outcomes with nutrition therapy. Attendees from multiple disciplines can obtain up to three hours of CME/CE credit for each course module completed.
Participants can choose the module(s) of the online course most appealing to them. Incentives are provided for participating in multiple modules.
Physicians participating in the full program of all modules (the online fellowship) can use this training towards the National Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists Board Exam. Graduates of the full fellowship will also be recognized at a ceremony at the American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) Congress Meeting. Please contact us directly at online.clinicalnutrition@dm.duke.edu.
This course is developed in collaboration with the Morpheus Consortium, which is a global collaboration to advance patient-centered care through science, education, and policy.
This activity is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from the Abbott Nutrition Health Institute. The educational content for this course was independently created by course directors and speakers, with no input from Abbott.
Overview
This rigorous and interactive online program is designed for practicing physicians, advanced practice providers, registered dietitians, pharmacists, and other health care professionals who wish to advance their understanding of clinical nutrition in pediatric and adult patients. Topics and settings included in this introductory course will include nutrition therapy in critical care, NICU, and perioperative settings, as well as malnutrition screening, assessment, and diagnosis. This course will be conducted over eight months, during which participants will learn from leading world experts in nutrition therapy.
As part of the weekly modules, you will directly interact with peers and faculty, sharing cutting-edge best practices with an international group of attendees. This highly specialized program is designed to provide you with the tools and resources to implement the latest data-driven practices to improve nutrition science at your home institution.
This online program features recorded lectures on carefully identified topics of high value, suggested readings on the topic, multiple-choice questions with feedback, and discussion forums with routine faculty moderation. Live, online interaction with faculty will be available as part of each topic’s module as well (via Zoom and other video media).
This course can also be taken as one or more individual modules by physicians, advanced practice providers (ARNPS or PAs), registered dietitians, and pharmacists who wish to grow and develop their skills and knowledge in one or more specific clinical nutrition topics. Physicians who choose to participate in the online fellowship program will have to complete all 25 offered modules. Non-physician health care practitioners can also earn a certificate of completion for the Duke Online Clinical Nutrition Course by participating in all modules offered in the course.
A key goal of this online course and online fellowship interactive modules is to grow relationships and collaborations between attendees and international faculty experts that will be ongoing after course completion. The program’s unique interactive style will also grow lasting relationships between attendees themselves. Ultimately, the Duke Online Clinical Nutrition Course and Fellowship modules will create opportunities for research and quality improvement collaborative projects that may grow out of the module interactions for the attendees if desired.
Course and Fellowship Features and Topics
- Weekly modules on high-impact topics in clinical nutrition
- Modules include recorded lectures by world experts in nutrition
- Learn how to set up next-generation, personalized nutrition programs at your institution
- Test your knowledge with multiple-choice questions with feedback
- Participate in discussion forums with peers, with moderation and feedback from internationally-recognized, expert faculty
- Online, live interaction with faculty
- Three hours of CME/CE credits available per module
- Option to pick and choose specific modules you want to participate in
- Online Fellowship participants get electronic access to the Duke Medical Library
Target Audience
Health care practitioners at any level of practice or training who wish to improve their understanding and practice of clinical nutrition in adult and/or pediatric patients. The course is designed primarily for physicians, advanced practice providers (ARNPS or PAs), registered dietitians, and pharmacists.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of the course, you will be able to:
- Discuss the incidence and importance of malnutrition in outcomes in a range of adult and pediatric patient populations
- Describe the screening and assessment of malnutrition, and the identification of patients at high nutritional risk
- Delineate evidence-based best practices for delivering nutrition care in hospitalized patients
- Discuss optimal structures, instruments, devices and framework for the next generation of clinical nutrition services and teams to deliver personalized nutrition care
Course Format
- Two-week long modules
- Recorded video lecture released on the first day of each module, self-paced learning
- Online discussion forum with peers and faculty during those two weeks, self-paced involvement. Participation in discussion forum counts towards CME/CE credits
- Online multiple-choice questions with feedback available, self-paced learning. Attempting these questions counts towards CME/CE credits
- One-hour, live Zoom session with faculty and peers, to be scheduled during those two weeks. Session recording will be available in case people are unable to attend it live.

Joint Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, the Duke University Health System Department of Clinical Education and Professional Development is accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), to provide continuing education for the health care team.
Provider Statement
Directly provided by the Duke University Health System Department of Clinical Education and Professional Development.
Education Credits
Duke University Health System Department of Clinical Education and Professional Development designates this CME/CE activity for a maximum of 3 hours for each module. Participants should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Resolution of Conflicts of Interest
Duke University Health System Clinical Education and Professional Development has implemented a process to resolve any potential conflicts of interest for each continuing education activity in order to help ensure content objectivity, independence, fair balance, and the content that is aligned with the interest of the public.
Disclosure Statement
It is the policy of the Duke University Health System Clinical Education and Professional Development to require the disclosure of anyone who is in a position to control the content of an educational activity. All relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests and/or manufacturers must be disclosed to participants at the beginning of each activity.
Disclaimer
The information provided at this CME activity is for continuing medical education purposes only and is not meant to substitute the independent medical judgment of a physician relative to diagnostic and treatment options of a specific patient’s medical condition.
Special Needs
The Duke University School of Medicine’s Department of Anesthesiology is committed to making its activities accessible to all individuals. If any participant in this educational activity is in need of accommodations, please do not hesitate to notify us by phone or email in order to receive service. Please contact Danielle Corrigan-Webster, course coordinator, at danielle.corrigan-webster@duke.edu.
Director

Paul E. Wischmeyer, MD, EDIC, FASPEN, FCCM
Professor of Anesthesiology
Associate Vice Chair for Clinical Research
Department of Anesthesiology
Critical Care Medicine Division
Duke University, Durham, NC
Dr. Wischmeyer is a critical care, perioperative, and nutrition physician-researcher who specializes in enhancing preparation and recovery from surgery and critical care. He serves as a Tenured Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery at Duke University. He also serves as the Associate Vice Chair for Clinical Research in the Dept. of Anesthesiology and as the Director of the TPN/Nutrition Team at Duke.
For his research work and clinical work, Dr. Wischmeyer has received numerous awards from national and international societies including The John M. Kinney Award for the most significant contribution to the field of general nutrition, the Stanley Dudrick Research Scholar Award by the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition and The Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Parenteral Nutrition Society (IPENEMA) for significant contributions to the field of nutrition.
He has over 200 publications (H index-63 and 46 papers with > 100 citations) in nutrition, critical care, and perioperative care, including publications in the New England Journal of Medicine. He has been an invited speaker at numerous national/international medical meetings, delivering over 1000 invited presentations in his career.
Dr. Wischmeyer’s passion for helping patients recover from illness and surgery arises from his personal experiences as both doctor and patient in the ICU. Thus, preparation for surgery/critical care and recovery from illness are a way of life for Dr. Wischmeyer that he is passionate about teaching his patients and other caregivers worldwide.
Faculty

Steven A. Abrams, MD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Dell Medical School
The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Dr. Abrams is a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Dell Medical School in Austin, TX. Dr. Abrams has developed and championed the use of stable isotopes to determine mineral requirements and physiological turnover rates in infants and children. He developed the mass spectrometric methods and analytical approaches allowing populations throughout the world to obtain critical data needed for food fortification strategies to be effective.
He continues to consult frequently with companies related to product design to incorporate key nutrients, especially calcium and iron, in their products. In 2016, he received the highest award in the pediatric nutritional research community, the Samuel J. Fomon Nutrition Award, for his contributions to helping improve the health of children through the application of mineral stable isotope research.
Dr. Abrams has served as a member, and chair, of the Committee on Nutrition of the American Academy of Pediatrics. From 2012 to 2015, he was a member of the Dietary Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, being the first pediatrician member of that committee in 25 years. He has also served as an adviser to international governments on nutrition policy for various foreign governments.

Prof. Mette M. Berger, MD, PhD
Prof. Hon. Mette Berger is an intensivist from the Lausanne University Hospital, specializing in burns resuscitation and in clinical nutrition. She continues as academic researcher at the University of Lausanne.
She received her MD degree from the Lausanne School of Medicine in 1989, and her medical PhD from the University of Umeå-Sweden in 1996. She completed her residency in Anesthesiology and in Intensive Care Medicine at the CHUV with intermittent fellowships in Karolinska - Stockholm and Royal North Shore - Sydney. She trained as a nutritionist in Nancy-France.
She has authored over 150 publications in micronutrients, nutritional therapy of the critically ill, and burn and trauma care. Her research interests are within clinical nutrition and antioxidant micronutrients in the critically ill, with a special focus on severe burns. She has contributed to developing the concept of early prevention of energy debt in acute conditions, promoting the use of computerized information systems to monitor nutritional therapy and combined enteral and parenteral feeding. Prof. Berger lectures nationally and internationally in antioxidant support, clinical nutrition, and burn care.
Prof. M. Berger has held positions as president and treasurer of the Swiss Society of Clinical Nutrition (SSNC), is a member of the ESPEN-ICU guidelines group, and deputy of the ESICM-MEN group, and member of the ESICM-PACT experts.

Mark R. Corkins, MD, CNSC, FASPEN, AGAF, FAAP
Professor
College of Medicine – Memphis
Department of Pediatrics
Division of Peds Gastroenterology
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN
Dr. Corkins is the Division Chief of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Le Bonheur Children’s in Memphis, TN. He is a graduate of the University Of Missouri School Of Medicine. He did his pediatric residency at the University of Iowa Hospital and clinics; and fellowship training at the University of Nebraska Medical Center/Creighton University. He is a Pediatric Gastroenterologist with a focus on nutrition and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Gastroenterological Association and the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. Dr. Corkins has served on the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Board of Directors and completed two terms on the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Nutrition. In 2007, he was ASPEN’s Nutrition Support Physician of the year and was the 2018 Excellence in Nutrition Support Education Award winner. This year, Dr. Corkins has been honored as an honorary member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. He has been head editor of several nutrition textbooks and author of numerous journal articles. Dr. Corkins was a member of the task force that created the new definition for pediatric malnutrition. He has actively spoken and written to educate medical professionals about the importance of nutrition in pediatric patients.

Isabel Correia, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, School of Medicine Gastrointestinal Surgical Department Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais, Brazil Maria Isabel T. D. Correia is a retired professor of surgery at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and chief of the Nutrition Therapy Team at the Alfa Institute of Gastroenterology and Surgery of the University Hospital, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Professor Correia received her medical degree from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in 1985. She completed an internship in nutrition at the Hospital das Clínicas of the University of São Paulo and Grupo de Apoio Nutrição Enteral e Parenteral (GANEP) and a surgical residency at the Hospital Semper, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She received her master’s degree from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, her PhD from Universidade de São Paulo, and her Post-Doc from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre. Professor Correia has previously worked at the Intensive Care Unit of Hospital Semper and was chief of the Nutrition Therapy Team at the Instituto Mineiro de Oncologia and Fundação Mário Penna.

Mark H. DeLegge MD, FACG, CNSP, AGAF, FASGE
Mark DeLegge completed his medical degree at the University of Maryland followed by a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Center and a fellowship in Gastroenterology/Hepatology and Nutrition at the Medical College of Virginia. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Nutrition. He was a faculty member and a full Professor of Medicine within the Division of Gastroenterology at the Medical University of South Carolina where he served as Director of the Digestive Disease Center. He is extensively published and has been a frequent invited speaker nationally and internationally. He served as the Global Senior Medical Director for Baxter Healthcare form 2010-2016 where he led efforts in drug development, clinical trial design, registration package development and submission, business strategy and innovation. He also served as a Senior Medical Director at IQVIA and leads the Gastroenterology/Hepatology Center of Excellence and is based in the United States. He is a partner in DeLegge Medical which provides medical educational programs, nutrient, drug and medical device regulatory and clinical package assessments and acceleration and medical market assessment and strategy.

Nicolaas Deutz, MD, PhD
Dr. Nicolaas Deutz, MD, PhD currently serves as Director for the Center for Translational Research in Aging and Longevity (CTRAL). For more than 30 years, his research background and expertise focus on nutrition, metabolism, and physiology studies involving the use of stable isotope methodologies, both in humans and animals. Dr. Deutz has extensive experience with isotopic calculations, validation and data interpretation. The stable isotope approaches are used in several studies to unravel the metabolic changes in patients with chronic diseases (i.e., chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cancer, cystic fibrosis, chronic heart failure, obstructive sleep apnea, mild cognitive impairment and dementia, autism spectrum disorder). This research leads to new insights in protein and amino acid kinetics in subjects with chronic disease and resulted in specific recommendations to nutritional supplements as method for reducing muscle wasting. Recently, he started studying the anabolic effects of specialized nutritional supplements in different chronic diseases and models of disease. Using translational approaches is a logical extension of the body of his research in the field of protein and amino acids metabolism.

Prof. Elisabeth DeWaele, MD, PhD
Professor Elisabeth De Waele received her medical degree with great distinction from Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2004. She subsequently completed postgraduate training in general surgery in 2010 and became a certified Intensive Care Physician in 2012. She is currently head of clinics in ICU, responsible for the postoperative treatment of cardiac surgery patients and acts as the liaison with the surgical teams of the Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel. Since 2012 she is president of the Nutrition Team at Vrije Universiteit Brussel/Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel. The multidisciplinary Team realized hospital-wide a higher quality of care concerning nutrition: standardized nutritional screening at admission, protocol-guided nutritional therapy on the ward and in ICU, quality-improvement of nutritional therapy in the Hemodialysis population, data gathering and benchmarking etc.

David C. Evans MD, FACS, FASPEN, PNS
David C. Evans, MD, FACS, FASPEN is a trauma, acute care, and critical care surgeon at OhioHealth Grant Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio, and Medical Director of the System Nutrition Support Team at OhioHealth, a 12-hospital network. He is also an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Surgery at Ohio University. Prior to his current role, he led the nutrition support and trauma programs at The Ohio State University. His interests include nutrition support in surgical and ICU patients and research in surgery and trauma care. He has served as an investigator in multiple clinical trials in critically ill patients focused on nutrition and infection and is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications.

Chelsia Gillis MSc, PhD
Dr. Chelsia Gillis is an Assistant Professor in the School of Human Nutrition in the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at McGill University. Dr. Gillis is a Registered Dietitian, Certified Nutrition Support Clinician®, and Vanier Scholar with an MSc in Human Nutrition from McGill University and a PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Calgary.
Dr. Gillis’ research program aims to improve surgical patient outcomes by generating evidence-based knowledge and translating findings into clinical practice to enhance healthcare services in Canada. Her research interests include prehabilitation, Enhanced Recovery After Surgery, surgical metabolism, and patient engagement. Prehabilitation is a paradigmatic shift in the usual care of surgical patients that capitalizes on surgical wait times to correct modifiable risk factors, including malnutrition, to enhance recovery. Dr. Gillis’ innovative approach challenges current “siloed” nutritional assessment techniques through the creation of surgery-specific tools that integrate both etiologic and phenotypic assessments of malnutrition with physical function to provide personalized, targeted care that ensures the right patient receives the right care at the right time. Dr. Gillis has received research grants as Principal Investigator from the Canadian Foundation for Dietetic Research, the American Society for Parenteral Enteral Nutrition, and the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism.

Praveen Goday MBBS, CNSC
Dr. Goday is a pediatric gastroenterologist with dual passions for nutrition and education. He serves as the Director of the Feeding and Nutrition Programs at the Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, OH. He is a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Ohio State University. He is an expert in pediatric feeding disorder and was the lead author of the paper that helped define this condition. His research focuses on various aspects of pediatric nutrition support and pediatric feeding disorder. Apart from authoring about 100 papers, he has also edited two textbooks on pediatric nutrition. He has served as the chair of the Nutrition Committee of NASPGHAN and is currently serving on the Board of Directors of ASPEN and the Committee on Nutrition of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He has been awarded ASPEN's Nutrition Support Physician as well as the Excellence in Nutrition Support Education Awards. He has been awarded NASPGHAN's Master Educator award and has been honored as an honorary member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Krista Haines, DO
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Trauma, Acute, and Critical Care Surgery
Surgical Critical Care Fellowship
Duke University, Durham NC

Osama Hamdy, MD, PhD
Dr. Hamdy is the Medical Director of the Obesity Clinic Program and Inpatient Diabetes Program, and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. His interests include diabetes and obesity, metabolic syndrome and obesity, and cardiovascular disease. His work focuses on understanding metabolic and cardiovascular benefits of lifestyle changes and weight loss. He studies the cardiovascular benefits of short- and long-term weight reduction in obese individuals with and without type 2 diabetes. Dr. Hamdy and colleagues’ research led to the discovery that obese adults who lost just 7 percent of their initial weight had significant improvement in their vascular endothelial function. This improvement may eventually prevent the progression of atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease, and the subsequent risk of heart attack and stroke.

Zhaoping Li, MD, PhD
Dr. Li is a Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Clinical Nutrition at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Li completed her MD and PhD in Physiology at Bejing University. Her residency training was completed at the UCLA-VA Internal Medicine program in 1996 where she also served as Chief Medical resident. Dr. Li has been a faculty member at UCLA and VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System since 1997. Dr. Li is board certified in Internal Medicine and Physician Nutrition Specialist.

Ainsley Malone MS, RD, LD, CNSC, FAND, FASPEN
Ainsley Malone is currently a Clinical Practice Specialist with the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN). Ms. Malone is also a Nutrition Support Dietitian at Mt. Carmel East Hospital in Columbus, Ohio where she is involved in the management of patients requiring enteral and parenteral nutrition. Ainsley is a leader in malnutrition-related activities having served as author of the 2012 Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics/ASPEN Malnutrition Consensus Characteristics, serving as a member of the Global Leadership Initiative in Malnutrition working group and leading malnutrition advocacy efforts across the United States. In addition, Ainsley served on the 2017- 2018 State of Ohio Malnutrition Prevention Commission and recently served as a member of the Canadian Health Standards Organization Working Group whose charge was to develop a malnutrition standard for addressing malnutrition in Canadian hospitals.

Jeroen Molinger, MSc
Jeroen Molinger is a clinical medical exercise physiologist who is specialized in metabolic cart assessments, (muscle) metabolic imaging and clinical exercise physiology in the perioperative space.
At Duke he serves as the Lead Clinical Medical Exercise Physiologist of the Human Physiology and Pharmacology lab (HPPL) and of the Duke Heart Cathlab. He serves also a research associate / senior clinical medical exercise physiologist Duke Center for Perioperative Organ protection (CPOP) and is member of the Critical Care and Perioperative Epidemiologic Research (CAPER) unit. Currently serves as the operational director of the LEEP-COVID Research Taskforce.

Carla Prado, RD, PhD
Dr. Prado is a Professor at the University of Alberta, a Campus Alberta Innovates (CAIP) Chair in Nutrition, Food and Health, and a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) New Investigator. She is the Director of the Human Nutrition Research Unit, state-of-the-art research, and training facility. Her laboratory is dedicated to the study of nutrient intake, energy metabolism, and skeletal muscle and adipose tissue dynamics and its effect on health. Dr. Prado was recognized as one of the most influential young Canadian leaders, receiving Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 Award.

Emma Ridley, BNutrDietet, MPH, PhD, APD
Dr. Ridley is a Senior ICU Dietician at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, where she has practiced for 16 years. She is a Research Fellow and NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow (2020- 2025) at Monash University, Melbourne. She is responsible for the strategic development and leadership of the Critical Care Nutrition Program at the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre (ANZIC-RC). After 12 years in critical care nutrition research, she completed my PhD in 2018 titled “Clinical and functional consequences of energy provided by nutrition in critically ill adults”. Her research interests include understanding energy requirements across the hospitalization period, including the clinical application of indirect calorimetry, as well as the effect of optimal nutrition delivery on short and long-term outcomes in ICU patients.

Michael Rothkopf, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine at Rutgers/New Jersey Medical School
Metabolic Medicine Consultants
West Orange, NJ
Dr. Rothkopf is a renowned, board-certified physician nutrition specialist. He has been on the staff of multiple hospitals and medical schools and is currently a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Rutgers/New Jersey Medical School.
He founded the Metabolic Medicine Center at Morristown Medical Center in 2008. He has been on the board of the National Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists since 2012 and was previously President. He was a board member and national conference chairman for the American College of Nutrition between 2011-2015. He is the Medical Director of the nutritional medicine e-learning site, RX-Nutrition.
Dr. Rothkopf has had a lifelong fascination with human metabolism and participated in important research on its understanding. He was a member of the Columbia University research group on nutrition and the respiratory system, including the early use of omega-3 fatty acids. He was a co-investigator on the use of arginine-enhanced enteral nutrition formulations for intensive care unit patients. He participated in studies on human growth hormone for pulmonary cachexia and AIDS wasting syndrome. He has authored 4 textbooks and over 100 scientific publications (with an impact score in the 90th percentile).

Krishnan Sriram, MD, FRCS(C), FACS, FCCM
Intensivist, U.S. TeleCritical Care West, Hines/Chicago
Formerly: Chair, Surgical Critical Care
Chief, Surgical Nutrition Section
Director, Nutrition Support Team
Department of Surgery
Stroger Cook County Hospital, Chicago, IL
Dr. Krishnan Sriram is currently an intensivist with the U. S. Veterans Affairs Tele-Critical Care West program, based in Chicago. His former positions at Stroger Cook County Hospital, Chicago, with an academic appointment at Rush University, include Chair & Fellowship Program Director of Surgical Critical Care, and Director of Nutrition Support Team.
Dr. Sriram is a graduate of Madras Medical College in India (1974), and completed his surgical residency and critical care training with the Chicago Medical School. He stayed on as a faculty for several years, with clinical responsibilities in general surgery, trauma, endoscopy, & especially critical care and nutrition support. He is American Board certified in general surgery, critical care, & nutrition.
He spent over a decade in Chennai, India, in the 1990s as an honorary professor of surgery, surgical critical care, and nutrition, & established clinical nutrition programs. He is the founder-president of Indian Society for Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition (ISPEN) and is involved with Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Society of Asia (PENSA). This experience has facilitated merging Western standards with practical local practices in various geographic regions.
Dr. Sriram’s interests include early enteral feeding, oral nutritional supplements, trace elements, and team building, areas in which he has several publications & presentations at local and international meetings. He conducts in-person & online courses on nutrition therapy. His special interest in micronutrients has continued for several decades since residency training and has influenced many of his trainees.

Kelly Tappenden, PhD, RD
Dr. Kelly Tappenden is a Professor and Head of the Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Tappenden’s research program focuses on intestinal failure, mechanisms of intestinal adaptation, and patient malnutrition. For these contributions, she has received multiple awards, published over 100 peer-reviewed papers, and delivered over 400 invited lectures. Dr. Tappenden served as the 33rd President of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition in 2008-09, Chair of the Nutrition, Metabolism and Obesity section of the American Gastroenterology Association Institute from 2009-13, and represents the American Society for Nutrition on the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Currently, she is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition.

Prof. Dr. Arthur R. H. van Zanten, MD, PhD
Chair of the Department of Intensive Care and ICU Research
Professor of Nutrition and Metabolic Stress
Department of Intensive Care, Gelderse Vallei Hospital, Ede
Division Nutrition & Health, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen
The Netherlands
Professor Arthur van Zanten is an internist-intensivist and Chair of the Department of Intensive Care and ICU Research in Gelderse Vallei Hospital in Ede, and professor of Nutrition and Metabolic Stress by special appointment at Wageningen University & Research, in The Netherlands since June 2019.
Dr. van Zanten was Managing Editor of the Netherlands Journal of Critical Care for ten years. He is a reviewer for numerous journals such as Lancet, Am J Resp Crit Care Med, Crit Care, Intensive Care Med, JPEN, and Clin Nutr. For Clin Nutr is also Associate Editor.
Over the last years, his interest has moved towards Critical Care Nutrition with a particular interest in immune-modulating nutrition, protein needs and timing, mitochondrial dysfunction and refeeding syndrome. He is a member of the Working Group on Gastrointestinal Failure of the ESICM and the Practice Guideline Committee of ESPEN for Critical Care Nutrition for adults and a member of the executive board of NESPEN.
Steering Committee

Sundar Krishnan, MBBS
Course Co-Director & Chair, Steering Committee
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Department of Anesthesiology
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology Division
Duke University, Durham, NC

Laura Van Althuis, RDN, LDN
Registered Dietitian – Adult Inpatient Team
Department of Nutrition Services, Duke University Hospital
Clinical Research Coordinator
Duke Office of Clinical Research
Duke University, Durham, NC

Sara Bliss, PharmD, BCPS, BCNSP, BCCCP
Director, Pharmacy Nutrition Support Services
Duke University, Durham, NC

Nalatha H. Edwards, MSN, AGNP-C
Abdominal Transplant Nurse Practitioner
Duke University, Durham, NC

Chi Hornik, MD, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Member in the Duke Clinical Research Institute
Department of Pediatrics, Critical Care Medicine
Duke University, Durham, NC

Michelle McMoon, PA-C, PhD
Director, Advanced Practice
Director, Nutrition Services
Duke University, Durham, NC

Kristy Paley, MS, RD, LDN, CNSC
Pediatric Registered Dietitian
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric Complex Care
Department of Nutrition Services
Duke University, Durham, NC
Coordinator
Danielle Corrigan-Webster
Duke Online Clinical Nutrition Course and Fellowship Coordinator
Department of Anesthesiology
Duke University, Durham, NC
The 2023 program has now been completed.
The 2024 program will be open for registration later this year, likely in October 2023. For those interested in completing the entire program ('online fellowship'), we will ask you to submit a copy of your medical degree, and a letter describing your interest in clinical nutrition and your expected future plans. In addition, we will schedule an online interview to help you understand the structure and purpose of the program.
The course will start in January 2024, and end in August 2024. The program is likely to cost $150 per module. Discounts will be available for those who register for multiple modules, for dietitians, and for those from low and middle-income countries.
The course format will include:
- Two week-long modules, which will often overlap
- Recorded video lecture (self-paced learning)
- Online discussion forum with peers and faculty during those two weeks (self-paced involvement). Participation in discussion forum counts towards CME/CE credits and towards module completion
- Online multiple-choice questions with feedback available (self-paced learning). Attempting these questions counts towards CME/CE credits and module completion.
- One hour, live Zoom session with faculty and peers, to be scheduled during those two weeks. A recording of this meeting will be available for those who are unable to attend the live session.
- As above, all work is self-paced, except for the live Zoom session with faculty (but can be viewed later at your convenience)
What is included:
- Registration fee(s) for the selected module course(s)
- CME/CPE certificate fees
Modules in the recently completed 2023 program:
Dates | Module Topic | Faculty |
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Jan 9-Jan 22, 2023 | Micronutrients: Physiology and Metabolism | Krishnan Sriram, MD, FRCS(C), FACS, FCCM |
Jan 23-Feb 5, 2023 | Malnutrition Screening, Assessment and Diagnosis | Michael Rothkopf, MD |
Jan 30-Feb 12, 2023 | Malnutrition Definition: Prevalence and Consequences | Isabel Correia, MD, PhD |
Feb 6-Feb 19, 2023 | Protein Malnutrition and the Importance of Muscle Mass/Function Loss | Nicolaas Deutz, MD, PhD |
Feb 13-Feb 26, 2023 | Overview of Enteral Nutrition-Tube Feeding | David Evans, MD, FACS, FASPEN |
Feb 20-Mar 5, 2023 | Overview of Parenteral Nutrition | Mette Berger, MD, PhD |
Feb 27-Mar 12, 2023 |
Pediatric Nutrition Basics and Malnutrition Recognition in Children | Mark R. Corkins, MD, CNSC, FASPEN, AGAF, FAAP |
Mar 6-Mar 20, 2023 | Surgical Nutrition and Perioperative Carbohydrate Loading | Paul E. Wischmeyer, MD, EDIC, FASPEN, FCCM |
Mar 13-Mar 26, 2023 | Neonatal ICU Nutrition: Clinical Application | Steven A. Abrams, MD |
Mar 27-Apr 9, 2023 | Critical Care Nutrition | Prof. Dr. Arthur R. H. van Zanten, MD, PhD |
Apr 3-Apr 16, 2023 | Muscle Mass/Body Composition Analysis | Carla Prado , PhD, RD |
Apr 10-Apr 23, 2023 | Metabolic Cart Testing and Interpretation | Elisabeth DeWaele, MD, PhD |
Apr 17-Apr 30, 2023 | Nutrition in Obese and Diabetic Patients | Osama Hamdy, MD, PhD, FACE |
May 8-May 21, 2023 | Enteral Nutrition: Access and Delivery; Selecting Routes, Tubes & Complications | Mark DeLegge, MD, FACG, CNSP, AGAF, FASGE |
May 15-May 28, 2023 | Gut Microbiome, Probiotics, Prebiotics Across Lifespan | Paul E. Wischmeyer, MD, EDIC, FASPEN, FCCM |
May 29-Jun 11, 2023 | GI Tolerance | Ainsley Malone, MS, RDN, LD, CNSC, FAND, FASPEN |
Jun 5-Jun 18, 2023 | Case Study: Critical Illness | Emma Ridley, BNutriDietet, APD, MPH, PhD |
Jun 12-Jun 25, 2023 | Case Study: Gastrointestinal Cancer | Chelsia Gillis - MSc PhD RD CNSC |
Jun 19-Jul 2, 2023 | Case Study: Basic Nutrition Research Methodology and Literature Interpretation | Kelly Tappenden, PhD, RD, FASPEN |
Jul 3-Jul 16, 2023 | Case Study: Pediatric Critical Care and Hospital Nutrition | Praveen Goday, MBBS, CNSC |
Jul 10-Jul 23, 2023 | Advanced Skills in Muscle Mass Analysis via CT Scan, Ultrasound, and BIA | Jeroen Molinger, MSc |
Jul 17-Jul 30, 2023 | Metabolic Syndrome | Michael Rothkopf, MD |
Jul 24-Aug 6, 2023 | Precision Nutrition and Specific Diet Types Effect in Health | Zhaoping Li, MD, PhD |
July 31-Aug 13, 2023 | Implementation Science in Nutrition Therapy: New Horizons in Policy & Practice | Krishnan Sriram, MD, FRCS(C), FACS, FCCM |
Aug 7-Aug 20, 2023 | Medical Speaking and Presentation Skills | Paul E. Wischmeyer, MD, EDIC, FASPEN, FCCM |
Aug 14 -Aug 27, 2023 | Ethics in Nutrition | Krista Haines, DO |

Fuad Bohsali, MD
Online Fellowship Year: 2023
Dr. Bohsali is the medical director of parenteral nutrition at Duke Regional Hospital in Durham, North Carolina. There, he works as a hospitalist and perioperativist, and optimizes patients' medical conditions before and after surgery. He has an interest in the nutritional support of surgical patients to accelerate their recovery. He joined the fellowship to enhance his understanding and expertise in clinical nutrition.

Sanjiv Gray MD, FACS, FASMBS
Online Fellowship Year: 2023
Dr. Gray practices Trauma and Acute Care Surgery and Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery in Lakeland, Florida. He is interested in perioperative nutrition and its role in the multimodal treatment of chronic diseases like obesity, diabetes, heart disease, short gut syndrome and patients with enterocutaneous fistulas.

Joaquim Lobato, MD
Online Fellowship Year: 2023-2024
Dr. Lobato is a critical care and nutrition therapy physician at Hospital São Domingos, northeastern Brazil. He developed a special interest in nutritional therapy and its impact on the recovery of critically ill patients while still as an intensive care resident. This interest has expanded to clinical, surgical and oncological patients in general.

Fidelis Manes Neto, MD, MSc
Online Fellowship Year: 2023
Dr. Neto is an oncology surgeon. Parallel to surgery, he has an interest in the area of care and nutritional support for surgical patients, mainly in immuno-nutritional support in the preoperative period, enteral and parenteral nutrition. He currently works at Hospital São Marcos, a general tertiary referral hospital, located in Teresina, capital of the state of Piauí, northeast region of Brazil.

Oki Yonatan Oentiono, MD
Online Fellowship Year: 2023
Dr. Oentiono is a physician with a Clinical Nutrition Specialty. Clinical nutrition is his passion. He is currently based in Jakarta, Indonesia, and practices clinical nutrition in hospitals and home care. He is interested in enteral and parenteral nutrition, especially in critical care settings.

Gonzalo Ojeda, MD
Online Fellowship Year: 2023
Dr. Ojeda completed training as an Internal Medicine Specialist at the Universidad de Concepción, Chile, and a Clinical Nutrition Course from Universidad Católica de Chile. He is currently working at Hospital Regional de Concepción at the Adult Nutritional Assistance Unit, and also at the ICU.

Maria Eloisa Garcia Velasquez, MD
Online Fellowship Year: 2023
Dr. Garcia is a physician with a Clinical Nutrition Specialty and ICU Nutrition Support Fellowship. She is the Chief of the Clinical Nutrition and Nutritional Support Department at Kennedy Hospital Group in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Clinical Nutrition is her passion, and her main objective is to demonstrate the importance of tailored nutritional support in the ICU and how it plays a key role during and after an illness.

Geoffrey Wong, MD
Online Fellowship Year: 2023
Dr. Wong is a general surgeon with interest in hepatopancreatobiliary surgery and abdominal organ transplantation. He is currently based in Sydney, Australia, where he is in the final year of his PhD. His motivation for undertaking the fellowship is to improve the delivery of nutrition to his patients and develop a more robust curriculum on clinical nutrition for surgical trainees.
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