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Select Topics in Glycogen Storage Disorders

Program Date: 29 May 2025

Publication Date: 06 October 2025

Continuing Education Credits: Nurse Contact 1.0 CE; Dietitian 1.0 CPEU

Course Description

In this course, Surekha Pendyal, MSc, MEd, RD, FAND, will define and differentiate the various types of glycogen storage disorders (GSDs); examine the nutritional management approaches for GSDs; and analyze the implications of microbiome interactions, fertility, and pregnancy considerations, weight loss strategies, and the presentation variability in GSD patients through case studies. This program was originally presented at the 2025 Abbott Metabolic Conference.

Course Objectives:
  • Define and differentiate the various types of glycogen storage disorders (GSDs).
  • Examine the nutritional management approaches for GSDs.
  • Analyze the implications of microbiome interactions, fertility and pregnancy considerations, weight loss strategies, and the presentation variability in GSD patients through case studies.

Performance Indicators: 9.1.1, 9.1.4, 11.3.4

Activity Code: 190153

Course Instructor Bio(s)

Surekha Pendyal, MSc, MEd, RD, FAND

Clinical Dietitian III 
Division of Medical Dietetics 
Duke University Hospital
Durham, NC, USA

Surekha Pendyal has been practicing as a metabolic dietitian since 1997, when North Carolina began the pilot project to expand newborn screening using tandem mass spectrometry technology. She gained extensive experience in treating a variety of inherited metabolic disorders (IMDs), coordinating newborn screening, conducting educational activities for patients and their families, and publishing a patient newsletter. In 2015, she joined the Division of Medical Genetics at Duke University, where she inherited a large patient population with glycogen storage diseases (GSD), a challenge she was seeking. She has been an active member of Genetic Metabolic Dietitians International since its inception. Surekha has authored a book chapter on IMD, has published many articles on IMD in peer-reviewed journals, and is an invited speaker at professional conferences and the annual family meeting for GSD. She considers the best part of her job to be teaching patients and medical and dietetic students about IMD and establishing lifelong relationships with patients and their families.

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CE CPEU Neonatal Disease State

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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.