AuSPEN is committed to providing members with a wide range of professional resources to enhance clinical practice, develop professional skills and support innovation and research in the international fields of clinical nutrition.

AuSPEN membership is valid from 1st January to 31st December each year, running concurrently with ESPEN membership. Members joining or renewing after October 1st will automatically roll into the next year.

AuSPEN will now be offering members the option to register for AuSPEN only or both AuSPEN & ESPEN for a Full Membership. Student Memberships will automatically encompass both AuSPEN & ESPEN content.


AuSPEN Membership Fees:

  • AuSPEN & ESPEN Full membership fee is $347.50 per year
    (Membership will allow access to both AuSPEN members area & ESPEN members area from 1st January through to 31st December)

  • AuSPEN only Full membership fee is $200.00 per year
    (Membership will allow access to AuSPEN members area only from 1st January through to 31st December)

  • AuSPEN student membership is $125 per year
    (Membership will allow access to both AuSPEN members area & ESPEN members area from 1st January through to 31st December)

AuSPEN is committed to providing members with a wide range of professional resources to enhance clinical practice, develop professional skills and support innovation and research in the international fields of clinical nutrition. Attendance to AuSPEN events will provide you with widespread networking opportunities and ability to share knowledge and explore innovation in nutrition practice with colleagues.

Membership Timing: AuSPEN membership is valid from 1st January to 31st December each year, running concurrently with ESPEN membership. Members joining or renewing after October 1st will automatically roll into the next year.
AuSPEN will now be offering members the option to register for AuSPEN only or both AuSPEN & ESPEN for a Full Membership. Student Memberships will automatically encompass both AuSPEN & ESPEN content.


AuSPEN Membership Benefits

AuSPEN Clinical practice guidelines

  • Access to the AuSPEN & AuSPEN-endorsed Clinical Practice Guidelines on a variety of enteral and parenteral
    nutrition topics for both adults and paediatrics

AuSPEN Scientific Meeting & Research opportunities

  • Invitation to the annual AuSPEN Scientific Meeting

  • Reduced Scientific Meeting registration rate

  • Conference grants

  • Research grants for novice and more experienced researchers

  • AuSPEN Scientific Meeting research prizes

  • Australasian research meetings and initiatives

  • Access to resources and optimal care pathways, for example, the Exclusive Enteral Nutrition IBD Toolkit and the Paediatric Blended Tube Feeds Resource 'The A-Z Toolkit' and 'Recipe Builder'

AuSPEN DIGITAL CONTENt & Professional education opportunities

  • Wide range of clinical nutrition education opportunities at discount rates for members

    • St Marks Intestinal Failure Course

    • Advanced Nutrition Course

    • Live Webinar and access to recordings

    • Podcasts

    • Clinical Nutrition Workshops

    • Paediatric Workshops

    • Annual AuSPEN Scientific Meeting

     ESPEN Membership

  • ESPEN membership valued at $190 is included as part of AuSPEN & ESPEN Full Membership and Student Membership options

  • ESPEN Long Life Learning (LLL) Courses

  • Full benefits of ESPEN membership, commencing from Jan 1st to Dec 31st annually (espen.org)

  • E-journal access to Clinical Nutrition Experimental and Clinical Nutrition ESPEN

     Other AuSPEN member benefits coming to you soon….

  • Home Parenteral Nutrition registry

  • Expert Australasian Intestinal Failure Committee

  • New clinical nutrition resources and toolkits to enhance your clinical practice


AuSPEN welcomes health professionals with an interest in clinical nutrition, researchers and students to join today. AuSPEN offers you all the benefits of being a member of two clinical nutrition societies; AuSPEN and ESPEN through our AuSPEN & ESPEN Full Membership & Student Membership options.

Keeping your AuSPEN membership current ensures you receive all of the benefits listed above throughout the year.  


Annual Membership Fees

AuSPEN membership is valid from 1st January to 31st December each year, running concurrently with ESPEN membership. Members joining or renewing after October 1st will automatically roll into the next year.

Full AuSPEN & ESPEN membership for all health professionals - $347.50   |   Student membership* - $125.00

These AuSPEN membership options include an ESPEN membership which is valued at $190 (€120).

AuSPEN will now be offering members the option to register for an AuSPEN only membership for all health professionals - $200.00

This membership option will allow access to AuSPEN members area only from 1st January through to 31st December and will not include access to ESPEN content.

*Student Membership

AuSPEN offers students enrolled in undergraduate and postgraduate studies or research programs a discounted 12-month student membership of $125.00. Students may be students of any of AuSPEN’s core disciplines: Medicine, Surgery, Dietetics, Pharmacy and Nursing. PhDs are not included in student memberships.

Student membership is also available for full-time tertiary students enrolled at a university and studying towards their initial qualification in their profession/discipline (eg dietetics, nursing, medicine, pharmacy, science) and who are not earning a health professional or scientist salary.

Evidence of student enrolment must be submitted to AuSPEN Secretariat (admin@auspen.org.au) at time of joining or renewing AuSPEN membership.

Transfer of Membership

Transfer of membership from one individual to another is not possible as per the AuSPEN Constitution


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