Saudi Arabia Trip

Mark DeLegge visited the cities of Jeddah, Suadi Arabia; Dammam, SA; Doha, Qatar and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He lectured extensively on nutrition in the intensive care unit, the importance of the dietitian, physician, nurse and pharmacist working together to improve patient outcomes by nutritional support and the importance of recognizing opportunities for early enteral nutritional support in the critically ill and post-surgical patient. Mark toured major hospitals, interacted with physicians and clinicians from multiple hospitals and created opportunities for future dialogue exchange.

 

  

 

South Africa Trip

Mark DeLegge traveled to South Africa and visited the cities of Capetown and Blomfontein. There he participated in multi-day critical care nutrition conferences with multiple speakers from South Africa and the United States. The lectures focused on the importance of the dietitian and the well-trained nutrition physician in the intensive care unit. Mark made rounds with hospital teams in a variety of major hospitals with interactive teaching rounds to create a "give and take" environment where everyone learned. Many complicated clinical cases were presented during the conferences allowing for all the expert speakers to comment on what they would do.

 

 

American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition - Orlando, FL

Mark DeLegge organized a conference of physicians, pharmacists, dietitians and nurse leaders in nutrition in the United States overseen by the American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition,  a leading US nutrition society. This conference was focused on solving the shortage of specialized nutrition trained physicians. Education, mentoring, research and clinical practice arenas were addressed. Mark was one of the four chairman who set up the conference. He lectured and wrote an article on the current state of resident education in nutrition and the mentoring process. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Journal of Partenteral and Enteral Nutrition in 2010. A unanimous decision was made to create an intersociety (amongst many nutrition societies) physician consortium to continue to work on this very important issue.