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Program Date: 06 April 2023
Program Date: 06 April 2023
Publication Date: 06 April 2023
Continuing Education Credits: Dietitian CPEU 0.75
In this course, Alfonso J. Cruz-Jentoft, MD, PhD, and Philip J. Atherton, PhD, AFHEA, will explain the new pandemic of sarcopenia and frailty after COVID-19 in the older adult population; review the impact of long COVID on muscle and nutritional outcomes; summarize the new GLIM body composition guidelines; and more.
Performance Indicators: 5.2.1, 5.2.5, 9.1.5
Activity Code: 186308
Jefe del Servicio de Geriatría
Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal
Madrid, Spain
Alfonso J. Cruz-Jentoft, MD, PhD is a specialist in Geriatric Medicine, Chair of the Geriatric Department at the Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal in Madrid, Spain, Professor of Geriatrics at the Universidad Europea de Madrid and Chair of the Spanish National Board of Geriatrics. He is a corresponding member of the Real Academia Nacional de Medicina de España and Past President of the European Geriatric Medicine Society (EuGMS). Dr Cruz-Jentoft serves as the Editor-in-Chief of European Geriatric Medicine, the official journal of the EuGMS. Chair of the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP) and member of the WHO Clinical Consortium on Healthy Ageing. He represents Spain on the Board of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG). In addition, he serves on the editorial boards of most major geriatric medicine journals.
Director, Centre of Metabolism, Ageing and Physiology (COMAP)
MRC-Versus Arthritis Centre of Excellence
University of Nottingham
Nottingham, Derby, UK
Dr Philip J. Atherton is Chair of Clinical, Metabolic, and Molecular Physiology at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. He received a 1st Class BSc degree and a higher PhD degree (in 2005) focusing upon protein metabolism, myogenic signaling, and gene expression regulation in skeletal muscle from the University of Central Lancashire. His current research involves an expansive combining of detailed pre/clinical molecular physiology with the application of stable isotope methodologies and the integration of OMIC techniques to discover predictors of the mechanistic basis for and how to mitigate musculoskeletal declines in aging and myriad related diseases. Atherton, with a H-index of 57 and ~15000 citations, has published ~150 peer-reviewed articles and 6 invited book chapters. He is a senior editor for the journals Experimental Physiology, Applied Physiology, Nutrition & Metabolism, and Nutrients.
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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