Dear ESPEN members and followers,
In 2017, the ESPEN Community reached 3?248 members who belong to 57 National PEN societies but also who joined us as Individual members! A record!
ESPEN in 2017 organized very successful events: the 39th ESPEN Congres in Den Haag,the 5th Workshop on Intestinal Failure in Bologna, the 24th ESPEN Course on Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism in Thessaloniki and several Experts’ courses.Congratulations to all those who were involved in the organization of these events.
The Impact Factor of Clinical Nutrition was still increasing and Clinical Nutrition ESPEN has been accepted on PubMed.
Six new Guidelines were fully published in 2017 and are available (free access) via the ESPEN website.
ESPEN has been welcomed as a new affiliated Society to UEG (United European Gastroenterology).
Nutrition Day took place on the 9thof November 2017 throughout hundreds of units around the World!
In 2018 ESPEN will organize and celebrate the 40th ESPEN Congress to be held in Madrid (September, 1-4, 2018 ). Don’t miss this extraordinary event!. The 6th Workshop on Perioperative Nutrition will take place in Nottingham (UK) on October 14-15, 2018.The 25thCourse on Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism will be organized in Zagreb, Croatia (October 5-10, 2018).
The new Edition of the Blue Book will be released in 2018 on the occasion of the Madrid Congress.
ESPEN is growing: we still need your dedication, enthusiasm and participation.
The ESPEN committees? officers wish you the best on a professional and individual levels for this coming year.
Season’s Greetings,
Andr? Van Gossum,Chairman
Matthias Pirlich, General Secretary
ZeljkoKrznaric, Treasurer