Addressing Gastrointestinal Tolerance in the ICU Setting

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

Clinical Practice Specialist
American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
Columbus, OH, USA

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

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.