Measuring Body Composition & Optimal Nutrition Support in the ICU Setting

Arthur R.H. van Zanten, MD, PhD

Medical Director, Executive Board for Acute & Complex Care
Deputy Chair, Intensive Care Medicine
Department Head, Intensive Care & Research
Gelderse Vallei Hospital
Ede, The Netherlands

Professor, Nutrition & Metabolic Stress
Wageningen University & Research
Wageningen, The Netherlands

Arthur R.H. van Zanten, MD, PhD, is an internist-intensivist and serves as the Medical Director on the Hospital Executive Board for acute and complex care, the Deputy Chair for Intensive Care Medicine, and the Department Head for Intensive Care and Research at Gelderse Vallei Hospital in Ede, the Netherlands. There, he also chairs the research group ACTOR in the in Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Van Zanten is also a Professor of Nutrition and Metabolic Stress in the division of Nutrition & Health at Wageningen University & Research in Wageningen, the Netherlands. 

Prof. van Zanten’s research interests initially addressed infectious complications in critically ill patients, with particular attention to clinical, pharmacological, and economic aspects. He now focuses on critical care nutrition, especially immune-modulating nutrition in ICU patients. He has contributed to the field with distinction, having published 205 peer-reviewed articles and numerous other book chapters and medical publications. Currently, he is leading several (inter)national clinical trials as Principal Investigator. Previously, he was managing editor for a decade for the Netherlands Journal of Critical Care and is now an ASSOCIATE EDITOR for the Clinical Nutrition journal. 

He provided more than 400 lectures on critical care nutrition and sepsis between 2011 and 2020 in 29 countries. During this time, he was the invited keynote speaker at meetings for the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN), the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, the International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, the Brazilian Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, the Danish Association of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, the Colorado Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, the Chinese Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the Middle-East ICU Nutrition Summit. He has organized over 175 medical congresses. 

Prof. van Zanten is a member of the Working Group on Gastrointestinal Failure of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and the Practice Guideline Committee of ESPEN for Critical Care Nutrition for adults. He has contributed widely to the organizational aspects of Dutch Intensive Care, and he served as secretary of the executive board of the Netherlands Society of Intensive Care Medicine (NVIC). He chaired Fundamental Critical Care Support Netherlands for many years. He was the chair of the NVIC Committee on Intensive Care Quality until 2012.

Kelly Tappenden, PhD, RD, FASPEN

Dean and Professor, College of Health
University of Utah Health
Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Dr Kelly Tappenden is Dean and Professor of the College of Health at the University of Utah. She received her PhD in Nutrition and Metabolism at the University of Alberta, underwent post-doctoral training at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston, and from Assistant through Endowed Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana before serving as Professor and Head of the Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr Tappenden’s research program focuses on intestinal failure, mechanisms regulating epithelial function, and patient malnutrition.

For these contributions, she has received multiple awards, published over 100 peer-reviewed papers, and delivered over 500 invited lectures. Dr Tappenden served as the 33rd President of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition in 2008-09, Chair of the Nutrition, Metabolism and Obesity section of the American Gastroenterology Association Institute from 2009-13, represented the American Society for Nutrition on the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Board of Directors from 2017-2022, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition from 2010-2022.

Currently, Dr Tappenden serves as President of the Board of Trustees of the Oley Foundation, an advocacy group striving to enrich the lives of those living with home intravenous nutrition and tube feeding through education, advocacy, and networking.