AuSPEN provides quarterly e-updates to our members and wider community.

February, 2025

What’s in this Member E-Update:

- Don’t forget, it’s time to renew your membership!
- AuSPEN 2025 Conference
- Advanced Nutrition Course 2025
- Research Mentoring Program 2025
- Upcoming Event: 6th NIFRS Education and Network Day 2025
- Feeding Tube Awareness Week: 2-8th February 2025
- Hot Off the Press: New Blended Tube Feeding Resources
- Invitation to participate: AuSPEN Malnutrition Task Force
- Member Spotlight - Celebrating Oana Tatuca


December, 2024

What’s in this Member E-Update:

- AuSPEN 2025 Conference – Where Survival Meets Nutrition
- AuSPEN 2024 Conference – Thank You For Coming!
- Congratulations To All Award Recipients
- Advanced Nutrition Course – 19th-21st June 2025
- Research Mentoring Program – Mid 2025
- Hot Off the Press: Phase angle as a marker of muscle quality
- Hot Off the Press: Nutrition considerations for patients with persistent critical illness
- Hot Off The Press: i-OPTIC: A new resource for clinicians working with people with cancer
- Hot Off the Press: Use of Filters During the Administration of Parenteral Nutrition.
- Thank You To Our 2024 Conference Sponsors


November, 2024

What’s in this Member E-Update:

- AuSPEN 2024 Conference – Register Now
- Conference Highlights - Not To Be Missed
- AuSPEN 2024 Social Media Competition
- Hot Off the Press: A study of professional practices, attitudes and barriers to blended tube feeding in Australia and New Zealand
- Hot Off the Press: Utility of mid-upper arm circumference in pediatric malnutrition
- Hot Off the Press: Avoiding the use of long-term parenteral support in patients without intestinal failure
- EOI – Project Officer for Intestinal Failure (GLP-2 Analogue) Guideline development
- What do you think should be included in Intestinal Failure Guidelines?
- AuSPEN Model of Care codesign project is now commencing!
- Member Spotlight - Celebrating Dr Elena George
- Committee Member Spotlight – Congratulations to Professor David Russell


August, 2024

What’s in this Member E-Update:

- AuSPEN 2024 Conference - Early Bird Registrations Close 13th September
- Sneak Peek: Pre-Conference Symposiums, Workshops, ESPEN LLL & Social Event
- Hot Off the Press: Funding and resource availability for home parenteral nutrition in Australia: A national cross-sectional survey.
- Hot Off the Press: Mid Upper Arm Circumference in the Paediatric Clinical Setting: An AuSPEN Consensus Statement and Toolkit. June 2024
- Intestinal Failure & Rehabilitation Workshop Recap
- Home Enteral Nutrition (HEN) Optimal Care Pathway (OPC) Webinar
- Member Spotlight - Celebrating Matthew Summers
- Committee Member Spotlight – Celebrating Caitlin Miles


May, 2024

What’s in this Member E-Update:

- Early Bird Registrations Are Open - AuSPEN 2024 Conference
- Application For Abstracts & Research Grants Are Open
- Hot Off the Press: Practical application of the Crohn’s disease exclusion diet as therapy as an adult Australian population
- Hot Off The Press: A clinical consensus paper on jejunal tube feeding in children
- CAN DReaM AuSPEN letter of commitment
- Updates from the AuSPEN Mentoring Program
- Member Spotlight - Celebrating Lauren Hanna
- Committee Member Spotlight – Celebrating Bethany Luo


February, 2024

What’s in this Member E-Update

- Changes to your AuSPEN membership for 2024 – Renew Now
- Save The Date – AuSPEN 2024 Conference
- Highlights from AuSPEN 2023
- Expressions of Interest – New ‘Malnutrition Committee’
- 2024 Webinar Series
- AuSPEN Intestinal Failure Workshop
- Feeding Tube Awareness Week: 4-10th February 2024
- Hot Off The Press: ESPEN Guideline on Nutrition in the intensive care unit – Update 2023
- Member Spotlight - Award & Grant Recipient Winners


October, 2023

What’s in this Member E-Update:

- Registration for AuSPEN 2023 – Register Now
- Thank you to our Gold Sponsors – Viatris & Nutricia
- The insider scoop on not-to-miss sessions at AuSPEN 2023
- Register to attend the AuSPEN 2023 AGM
- AuSPEN 2023 Social Media Competition
- Hot Off the Press: AuSPEN endorsed Australian and New Zealand Paediatric Critical Care Nutrition Support Guidelines.
- Hot Off the Press: The Successful Collaboration Between The Australasian Society For Parenteral And Enteral Nutrition And Industry To Develop A New Paediatric Intravenous Trace Element Solution For Australia And New Zealand.
- Member Spotlight – Celebrating Emma Osland
- A special shout out to Rhiannon Crane – Chair of Education Committee


August, 2023

What’s in this Member E-Update:

- Welcome & Update from Sharon Carey, AuSPEN President
- Don’t miss out on Earlybird Registration for AuSPEN 2023 – Register now
- Final call for Research Grant Applications for AuSPEN 2023
- Hot Off the Press: The International Network on Oesophageal Atresia consensus guidelines on the transition of patients with oesophageal atresia–tracheoesophageal fistula
- Hot Off the Press: Medical nutrition therapy in patients receiving ECMO: Evidence-based guidance for clinical practice
- Updates from AuSPEN Advanced Nutrition Course
- EOI: AuSPEN Marketing & Communications Committee
- EOI: AuSPEN Education Committee


May, 2023

What’s in this Member E-Update:

- Renew your AuSPEN Membership
- Save the Date for AuSPEN 2023 – Register now
- Call for abstracts for AuSPEN 2023
- AuSPEN Advanced Nutrition Course – Meet some of the speakers
- Hot Off the Press: The effect of higher protein dosing in critically ill patients with high nutritional risk (EFFORT Protein): an international, multicentre, pragmatic, registry-based randomised trial, The Lancet
- AuSPEN Member Spotlight – Celebrating Suzie Daniells
- EOI: 2024 AuSPEN Conference Planning Committee


February, 2023

What’s in this Member E-Update:

- Renew your AuSPEN Membership
- Save the Date for the 48th AuSPEN Annual Congress
- Resources from AuSPEN Annual Congress 2022
- Hot Off the Press: A Multidisciplinary Team Evaluation of Management Guidelines for Adult Short Bowel Syndrome
- PNDU Newsletter
- Feeding Tube Awareness Week 5-11th February
- Congratulations to our 2022 Award Winners
- AuSPEN Member Spotlight – Celebrating Reeham Abu-Rgeef
- 2024 AuSPEN Conference Planning Committee