Improving Outcomes with Early, Individualized Nutrition Intervention: It's Worth the EFFORT

Kelly Tappenden, PhD, RD, FASPEN

Professor and Department Head 
Department of Kinesiology & Nutrition 
University of Illinois at Chicago 
Chicago, IL, USA

Dr Kelly Tappenden is 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 of intestinal adaptation, and patient malnutrition. For these contributions, she has received multiple awards, published over 100 peer-reviewed papers, and delivered over 400 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 and represents the American Society for Nutrition on the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Currently, she is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition.

Philipp Schuetz, MD, MPH

Internal Medicine & Emergency Medicine  
Medical University Department  
Kantonsspital Aarau, Tellstrasse  
Aarau, Switzerland

Philipp Schuetz was born in Switzerland and is a board-certified internist and endocrinologist. He obtained a Master of Public Health (MPH) at the Harvard School of Public Health Boston while doing clinical research at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). He currently has a professorship from the Swiss National Foundation and works clinically at the Medical University department at the Kantonsspital Aarau in the emergency department and the Endocrine unit; and is in charge of clinical studies focusing on clinical nutrition (EFFORT), as well as on improved triage and management of patients throughout their hospital stay with the use of novel biomarkers.

Ainsley Malone, MS, RDN, LD, CNSC, FAND, FASPEN

Clinical Practice Specialist
American Society for Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition
New Albany, OH, USA

Ms Malone serves as a Clinical Practice Specialist for the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) where she works to support clinical practice activities for the organization. She retired in 2023 from her 40-year career as a nutrition support dietitian within the Mt Carmel Health System in Columbus, where she assisted in the management of patients requiring enteral and parenteral nutrition. Ainsley is a global and national leader in malnutrition-related activities, having served as an author of the 2012 Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics/ASPEN Malnutrition Consensus Characteristics and the 2018 Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) consensus characteristics.  She is currently serving as Co-Lead of the GLIM Implementation and Dissemination working group. Over her longstanding career, Ainsley has served in many nutrition leadership capacities, including President of ASPEN 2013-14 and on the Board of Directors for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, where she currently serves as Speaker of the House of Delegates.