IUNS-ICN Malnutrition

Isabel Correia, MD, PhD

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, School of Medicine; Gastrointestinal Surgical Department; Belo Horizonte
Minas Gerais, Brazil

Maria Isabel T. D. Correia is a retired professor of surgery at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and chief of the Nutrition Therapy Team at the Alfa Institute of Gastroenterology and Surgery of the University Hospital, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.                                                      

Professor Correia received her medical degree from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in 1985. She completed an internship in nutrition at the Hospital das Clínicas of the University of São Paulo and Grupo de Apoio Nutrição Enteral e Parenteral (GANEP) and a surgical residency at the Hospital Semper, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She received her master’s degree from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, her PhD from Universidade de São Paulo and her Post Doc from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre. Professor Correia has previously worked at the Intensive Care Unit of Hospital Semper and was chief of the Nutrition Therapy Team at the Instituto Mineiro de Oncologia and Fundação Mário Penna.                                          

Her research interests include the nutritional needs of patients undergoing surgery, mainly liver transplant and cancer. Professor Correia has numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals and has contributed to several book chapters. Some of her recently published research investigated the association of food cravings with weight gain, overweight, and obesity in patients after liver transplantation; international perspectives on the epidemiology of weight loss, malnutrition, and sarcopenia; guidance from the GLIM on validating operational criteria for diagnosing protein-energy malnutrition in adults; and skeletal muscle mass in people who are dependent on alcohol or other substances. She is currently a member of the Editorial Board of Clinical Nutrition, Nutrition in Clinical Practice, and the Journal of Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition (JPEN); is editor for the gastrointestinal section of Current Opinion in Nutrition and Metabolic Care; is the deputy editor-in-chief of Nutrition and is editor-in-chief of Revista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões. In 2021 Professor Correia received the Distinguished Nutrition Support International Service Award from the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition; in 2020 she gave two presentations, at GANEPÃO and IBRANUTRO Científico Virtual, both of which received a first-place award. In 2020 she also became a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

Olga Pinzón, MPH, MBA

Rosario University, Méderi Hospitals
Bogotá, Colombia

Krishnan Sriram, MD, FRCS(C), FACS, FCCM

Intensivist, U.S. TeleCritical Care West, Hines/Chicago
Formerly: Chair, Surgical Critical Care
Chief, Surgical Nutrition Section
Director, Nutrition Support Team
Department of Surgery
Stroger Cook County Hospital, Chicago, IL

Dr Krishnan Sriram is currently an intensivist with the U. S. Veterans Affairs Tele-Critical Care West program, based in Chicago. His former positions at Stroger Cook County Hospital, Chicago, with an academic appointment at Rush University, include Chair & Fellowship Program Director of Surgical Critical Care, and Director of Nutrition Support Team.

Dr Sriram is a graduate of Madras Medical College in India (1974), and completed his surgical residency and critical care training with the Chicago Medical School. He stayed on as a faculty for several years, with clinical responsibilities in general surgery, trauma, endoscopy, & especially critical care and nutrition support. He is American Board certified in general surgery, critical care, & nutrition.

He spent over a decade in Chennai, India, in the 1990s as an honorary professor of surgery, surgical critical care, and nutrition, & established clinical nutrition programs. He is the founder-president of Indian Society for Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition (ISPEN) and is involved with Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Society of Asia (PENSA). This experience has facilitated merging Western standards with practical local practices in various geographic regions.

Dr Sriram’s interests include early enteral feeding, oral nutritional supplements, trace elements, and team building, areas in which he has several publications & presentations at local and international meetings. He conducts in-person & online courses on nutrition therapy. His special interest in micronutrients has continued for several decades since residency training and has influenced many of his trainees.

Álvaro Ruiz Morales, MD, MSC, FACP

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Bogotá, Colombia

Angel Gil, PhD

Dr. Angel Gil was born in Granada, Spain in 1951. In 1996, he became Full Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Granada (UGR). He is an internationally recognized authority in the field of Food and Nutrition; his expertise extends from the study of food composition to the metabolism of macronutrients and bioactive compounds, and their effects on health. Since his early career he has balanced his role of researcher and professor, and conducted pioneering and innovative research, leading more than 50 projects and contracts; Prof Gil has several areas of interest that include the evaluation of the role of dietary nucleotides in early life and the development of infant nutrition products. In addition, the isolation, identification and description of the mechanism of action of probiotics and the metabolic, molecular and genetic factors involved in obesity and the early onset of the metabolic syndrome (MS) in childhood; and the design, development and evaluation of enteral clinical nutrition products. What actually, probably describes Prof Gil best, is the variety of fields and problems he has faced during his professional carrier and his significant ability to combine his knowledge and expertise in Food Science and Human Biochemistry. He has also been the Chairman of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS) 21st International Congress of Nutrition, the most important event in nutrition every 4 years in the World and has been engaged in the organization of other renowned international congresses.