The Role Of Hydration In Acute Inflammatory Process & Recovery

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.