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Webinar: Simplifying the management of high and low energy requirements in complex needs children

Enteral Nutrition

26/07/2021

Webinar: Simplifying the management of high and low energy requirements in complex needs children

Video description

Watch our panel discussion hosted by four experienced dietitians, who together explore how best to manage energy requirements amongst children with a variety of conditions, answering questions sent in by other healthcare professionals.

Chaired by Kathryn Simpson, an Advanced Paediatric Dietitian at CCICP (Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership) this webinar has a fantastic line up of panellists including:

Heather Grant, Paediatric Dietitian (PGHAN) at Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, Edinburgh
Gemma Renshaw, Principal Paediatric Oncology Dietitian at GOSH, London
Clare Woodland, Cystic Fibrosis and Respiratory Specialist dietitian at Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool

This information is intended for healthcare professionals only. The educational content and agenda of this webinar has been developed by the speakers. The webinar platform, speaker fees and promotion of the event have been provided by Nestlé Health Science.

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Speaker Bios

Kathryn Simpson
Kathryn has over 20 years’ experience working with children with complex needs as part of the Home Enteral feeding service for Central Cheshire.

Heather Grant
Heather graduated from Glasgow Caledonian University in 2010 and has since enjoyed a career in paediatric dietetics. Having worked in the area of PGHAN (Paediatric gastroenterology hepatology and nutrition) since 2013, she has covered all aspects of the area of paediatric GI services within a tertiary centre as part of a close working MDT.

Heather has passion for complex nutrition and GI tolerance in complex chronic conditions. This is an area she is currently responsible for with both in and outpatients, through work with patients with e.g. intestinal failure, dysmotility, liver disease and the resulting need for enteral and parenteral nutrition as part of their management.

Gemma Renshaw
Gemma leads the dietetic team at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) specialising in paediatric haematology, oncology and bone marrow transplant. She has worked at GOSH for over 10 years with the majority of those years working in the field of childhood cancer. She also chairs a group of allied health professionals (plus others) working in this area at a national level to encourage research and collaboration and is a member of the international group for nutrition in children with cancer in high income countries, working on standardising nutritional care.

Clare Woodland
Clare is a Cystic Fibrosis Specialist Dietitian. She looks after the nutritional needs of all the patients with Cystic Fibrosis at Alder Hey and alongside our CF Network Dietetic partners within the Cheshire and Mersey CF Network. For patients with Cystic Fibrosis, good nutrition is an important part of their medical care as good nutrition and healthy body weight is directly linked to better lung function and reduced infections. Some people with CF have problems digesting food and can also develop CF Diabetes. The CF Dietitians work hard to ensure that they have tailored advice based on individual’s requirements.

Clare is also a respiratory specialist and is vital part of the multi-disciplinary teams for the Interstitial lung disease, Bronchopulmonary dysplasia and Congenital diaphragmatic hernia clinics which are unique to Alder Hey. Clare is a co-author on two recent publications ‘Managing cystic fibrosis in the neonatal period’ and ‘Respiratory diseases of the newborn infant’. Clare is an active member of the UK CF Dietitians group and regularly present locally and within the UK and Europe at our European CF conferences.

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Participants

Heather Grant, Paediatric Dietitian
Gemma Renshaw, Principal Paediatric
Clare Woodland, Specialist dietitian

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