AuSPEN provides quarterly e-updates to our members and wider community.
September, 2026
What’s in this E-Update:
AuSPEN 2026 Conference:
Early bird ticket registration closes September 11th – Register today and save!
Training and Events:
Dietitian Connection's Malnutrition Week ANZ 2026
Home Parenteral Nutrition Awareness Week 2026
AuSPEN Paediatric Intestinal Failure and Rehabilitation Course – A resounding success!
International Events:
New Zealand Society of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting 2026
Canadian Nutrition Society: Invites you to a Virtual Clinical Nutrition Education Event
Hot Off the Press:
Updated Guidance for Author Use of AI in Medical Publication
Unique causes of Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency: When to consider pancreatic enzyme supplementation: A narrative review
Muscle Matters: A Proposed Algorithm to Guide Screening, Assessment and Management of Poor Muscle Health in Primary Care
Best Practice Guideline for the Nurse’s Role in Caring for People with, or at risk of Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Fatty Liver Disease (MAFLD)
AuSPEN Member Spotlight:
Hear from Clinical Dietitian, Dale Palmer
We want to hear from you!
AuSPEN Awards: Know someone doing amazing work in clinical nutrition? Nominate them today!
Survey: Help us determine current practice in nutritional management within prehabilitation of colorectal cancer patients
Survey for Dietitians: Help Improve ICU-to-Ward Handover Practices
June, 2026
What’s in this E-Update:
AuSPEN 2026 Conference: Voyage to Better Nutrition Care
Training and Events:
o AuSPEN Paediatric Intestinal Failure and Rehabilitation Course 2026
o New junior clinician resources available for AuSPEN Members
We want to hear from you!
o Help us understand disordered eating in complex disorders of gut brain interaction
o Have your say with the AuSPEN future directions survey!
Hot Off the Press:
o Beyond the intensive care unit: Nutrition challenges and key considerations for survivors of critical illness: A narrative review
o Sarcopenic obesity: Call to action and nutritional agenda from the international clinical nutrition community
o Very low energy ketogenic diet vs. Mediterranean diet for MASLD: Superior steatosis reduction in a randomised pilot study
AuSPEN Member Spotlight:
o Hear from the Paediatric Committee Deputy Chair, Kathleen McGrath!
February, 2026
What’s in this E-Update:
Don’t forget, it’s time to renew your 2026 membership!
AuSPEN 2026 Conference – Voyage to Better Nutrition Care
AuSPEN Paediatric Intestinal Failure and Rehabilitation Course 2026
1F Intestinal Failure Awareness Day 2026
Hot Off the Press: 2025 ELSO Consensus Statement for the Provision and Management of Nutrition Therapy in Critically Ill Adult Patients Requiring Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
Hot Off the Press: A Systematic Review Identifying Critical Evidence Gaps in Reporting Dietary Change in Randomized Controlled Trials Prescribing Liraglutide, Semaglutide, or Tirzepatide
Hot Off the Press: Management of Patients with Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction and Altered (Reduced) Food Intake Behaviour
AuSPEN Member Spotlight - We welcome and thank our 2026 AuSPEN Council!
Other events: Australasian Masterclass in Neurogastroenterology and Motility Masterclass (2026).
December, 2025
What’s in this E-Update:
Membership Renewal
AuSPEN 2025 Conference – Thank you for coming!
AuSPEN Member Spotlight – Thank you Sharon Carey
A Presidential Welcome from Julia Fox
Not To Be Missed in 2026
Expressions of Interest - Join the AuSPEN Marketing and Communications Committee
Congratulations to Award Recipients
Hot off the press: Gastroenterological Society of Australia position statement on the assessment and management of idiopathic gastroparesis
Hot off the press: National Australian Home Parenteral Nutrition Registry: Development process and initial data insights
August, 2025
What’s in this E-Update:
- AuSPEN 2025 Conference - Early Bird Registration Closing Soon
- Last call for Grant Applications
- Advanced Nutrition Course 2025 - Report back
- FREE Webinar: Refeeding Syndrome in Acute Care: Translating AuSPEN Guidelines into Practice
- Hot Off the Press: Refeeding Guidelines in AuSPEN template found in resource tab on website
- Hot Off the Press: Augmented Enteral Protein During Critical Illness: The TARGET Protein Rendomized Clinical Trial
- Hot Off the Press: The effects of Mediterranean diet with and without exercise on body composition in adults with chronic disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical trials
- Hot Off the Press: Development of dietetics staffing requirements for adult intestinal failure services using a best-practice model
- Member Spotlight - Celebrating Tanya Collins
- Other Training and Events
May, 2025
What’s in this E-Update:
- Have you renewed your membership?
- AuSPEN 2025 Conference - Where Survival Meets Nutrition
- Abstract and Grant Applications are open!
- Advanced Nutrition Course 2025 – Registrations are open
- Hot Off the Press: The Australasian Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition: Consensus statements on refeeding syndrome
- Hot Off the Press: The role of the social worker in the assessment and management of adults receiving Home Parenteral Nutrition
- Hot Off the Press: AuSPEN 2024 Conference Abstracts – Clinical Nutrition ESPEN
- Member Spotlight - Celebrating Elizabeth Viner-Smith
- 24th Annual Congress of Korean Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
- IUNS International Congress of Nutrition 2025
February, 2025
What’s in this 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 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