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Program Date: 30 March 2021
Program Date: 30 March 2021
Publication Date: 09 June 2021
Continuing Education Credits: Nurse Contact 1.0 CE; Dietitian 1.0 CPEU
In this UK-hosted course, Sanjay Suman, MB, BS, MD, FRCP, will recognise the essential role of vitamin D in maintaining health; describe the specific role of vitamin D in maintaining musculoskeletal health; and discuss practical approaches to identifying and correcting vitamin D deficiency and incorporating this into a multidisciplinary approach. Originally presented as a live webinar on 31 March 2021.
Performance Indicators: 5.2.7, 9.1.4, 9.1.5
Activity Code: 185070
Consultant Geriatrician and Clinical Director
Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Kent, England, United Kingdom
Sanjay Suman is the Clinical Director of the Therapies and Older Persons Programme at Medway NHS Foundation Trust in Kent. He was appointed as Consultant Geriatrician in 2007 and is a Fellow of Royal College of Physicians, London. Sanjay has special interest in frailty, sarcopenia, falls and syncope in elderly patients and runs an orthogeriatric service for fracture neck of femur pathway at Medway NHS Foundation Trust. In his clinical director role he has developed a number of bespoke frailty focused assessment pathways such as the acute frailty unit and falls and syncope clinic for elderly. In the community, he has supported the development of a number of services such as care home support services, geriatric led MDT meetings in the community to name a few. He has been a recipient of Academic Health Sciences Network (Kent, Sussex and Surrey) Leadership and Innovation award for excellence in out of hospital care category 2017. As a subject matter expert, Sanjay has delivered a number of keynote lectures on frailty, sarcopenia, polypharmacy reduction and falls at national and international conferences. He is passionate about improving the reversible components of frailty, such as nutritional status and polypharmacy reduction, contributing to improving clinical outcomes for frail individuals, both in primary and secondary care.
Medical Director, United Kingdom
Abbott Nutrition International
Maidenhead, UK
Rebecca Stevenson has served as the Medical Director of Abbott Nutrition UK since 2016. She has an extensive background in clinical nutrition working as a Paediatric Dietitian specializing in liver, gastroenterology, neonatology, allergy, and general paediatrics at Kings College Hospital trust, Royal London Hospital, UCLH. Additionally, she has worked as a Paediatrric and Sports Nutrition Dietitian in her own consultant business for several years prior to joining Abbott. She is a member of the British Dietetic Association and served on the research committee for 3 years. Volunteer experience includes serving as a volunteer mentor for Chiva Africa as a member of the interdisciplinary team in Zwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa for HIV anti-retroviral roll-out education.
Abbott Nutrition’s Provider Statement for Nursing CEs:
Abbott Nutrition Health Institute is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the California Board of Registered Nursing Provider #CEP 11213.
Abbott Nutrition’s Statement for Dietitian CPEUs:
This educational activity has been prior-approved by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). CDR credentialed practitioners will receive the specified continuing professional education units (CPEUs) for completion of this program/material.
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