Thursday – October 31

Please find an overview of pre-conference workshops below.

Pre-conference Workshops

A – Biodiversity and Sustainable Nutrition: a pre-conference workshop and tour of the ForwardFarm
Time: 09.30 – 18.00 hrs \| Costs: Free of charge
What really happens on a farm? What does biodiversity have to do with nutrition? What role can dietitians play and how can they help alleviate consumer confusion about sustainable nutrition? Join a diverse range of experts — including farmers, scientists, dietitians and more — for an interactive day of hands-on experience at the ForwardFarm. Learn some basic principles of modern agriculture and what it all means for the dietitians of today and tomorrow. Participants will be transported by bus from the conference hotel to the ForwardFarm near Berlin. Tickets are limited! A workshop supported by Bayer Crop Science

A – Biodiversity and Sustainable Nutrition: a pre-conference workshop and tour of the ForwardFarm

Time: 09.30 – 18.00 hrs | Costs: Free of charge

What really happens on a farm? What does biodiversity have to do with nutrition? What role can dietitians play and how can they help alleviate consumer confusion about sustainable nutrition? Join a diverse range of experts — including farmers, scientists, dietitians and more — for an interactive day of hands-on experience at the ForwardFarm. Learn some basic principles of modern agriculture and what it all means for the dietitians of today and tomorrow.

Participants will be transported by bus from the conference hotel to the ForwardFarm near Berlin. Tickets are limited!

A workshop supported by Bayer Crop Science

B – Practice based Evidence in Nutrition – Morning
Time: 09.00 – 13.00 hrs \| Costs: Free of charge
The evidence base for nutrition and dietetics is growing and finding, appraising and applying the evidence to your practice could be a more than full time occupation. Practice based Evidence in Nutrition (PEN) provides the evidence and the patient tools in one comprehensive database. If you are an association leader or an academic come to this free session and see how PEN will help you develop evidence based dietetic practice Understand more about the robustness of PEN and how evidence is appraised and summarised Understand more about how PEN helps you apply the evidence to develop your practice Learn more about how PEN helps develop evidence based practice skills A workshop supported by PEN

B – Practice based Evidence in Nutrition – Morning

Time: 09.00 – 13.00 hrs | Costs: Free of charge

The evidence base for nutrition and dietetics is growing and finding, appraising and applying the evidence to your practice could be a more than full time occupation. Practice based Evidence in Nutrition (PEN) provides the evidence and the patient tools in one comprehensive database. If you are an association leader or an academic come to this free session and see how PEN will help you develop evidence based dietetic practice

Understand more about the robustness of PEN and how evidence is appraised and summarised
Understand more about how PEN helps you apply the evidence to develop your practice
Learn more about how PEN helps develop evidence based practice skills

A workshop supported by PEN

C – Practice based Evidence in Nutrition – Afternoon
Time: 14.00 – 18.00 hrs \| Costs: Free of charge
Have you seen Practice based Evidence in Nutrition (PEN) but didn’t really know how you could use it? The evidence base for nutrition and dietetics is growing and finding, appraising and applying the evidence to your practice could be a more than full time occupation. Practice based Evidence in Nutrition (PEN) provides the evidence and the patient tools in one comprehensive database. This free, hands on workshop will help you Understand how PEN appraises and summarises the evidence into key points for your practice See how to find the tools and resources in PEN to help you educate your patients Understand the evidence behind your practice A workshop supported by PEN

C – Practice based Evidence in Nutrition – Afternoon

Time: 14.00 – 18.00 hrs | Costs: Free of charge

Have you seen Practice based Evidence in Nutrition (PEN) but didn’t really know how you could use it? The evidence base for nutrition and dietetics is growing and finding, appraising and applying the evidence to your practice could be a more than full time occupation. Practice based Evidence in Nutrition (PEN) provides the evidence and the patient tools in one comprehensive database.
This free, hands on workshop will help you

Understand how PEN appraises and summarises the evidence into key points for your practice
See how to find the tools and resources in PEN to help you educate your patients
Understand the evidence behind your practice

A workshop supported by PEN

D – Dietary management of obesity

Time: 09.00 – 16.00 hrs | Costs: € 95

Time	Activity
	Session 1 – Dietary management of Obesity
	Chairs: Ellen Govers and Hilda Mulrooney
09.00 – 09.10 hrs	Welcome and introduction to the session
09.10 – 09.40 hrs	Dietary Management of obesity in adults: Pitfalls & opportunities in Europe. Joint position paper of the ESDN Obesity of EFAD and the NWG of EASO Maria Hassapidou
09.40 – 10.10 hrs	Dietetic management interventions in adults: evidence & application Hilda Mulrooney
10.10 – 10.30 hrs	Coffee break
10.30 – 11.00 hrs	Οbesity in vulnerable populations and opportunities for intervention Antonis Vlassopoulos
11.00 – 11.30 hrs	Dietary management interventions for obesity in children Odysseas Androutsos
11.30 – 12.00 hrs	General discussion
12.00 – 13.00 hrs	Lunch break
	Session 2 – How to treat obese patients
	Chairs: Maria Hassapidou and Odysseas Androutsos
13.00 – 13.30 hrs	Adult Obesity with comorbidities Ellen Govers
13.30 – 14.30 hrs	Nutrition coaching- the non-prescribed diet approach and therapeutic adhesion – from evidence to practice Vania Costa
14.30 – 15.30 hrs	The importance of goals in loss and maintenance weight Tânia Soeiro
15.30 – 16.00 hrs	Where to go from here / General discussion
	A workshop hosted by EFAD’s ESDN Obesity

E – ESPEN LLL course – Nutritional assessment and techniques

Time: 13.00 – 17.00 hrs | Costs: € 60

Time	Activity
13.00 – 13.45 hrs	Nutritional Screening and Assessment – Prof.Dr. Rémy Meier
13.45 – 14.30 hrs	Body Composition – Prof.Dr. Rémy Meier
14.30 – 15.00 hrs	Coffee break
15.00 – 15.45 hrs	Energy Balance – Prof.Dr. Luzia Valentini
15.45 – 16.30 hrs	Case Discussion – Prof.Dr. Rémy Meier/ Prof.Dr. Luzia Valentini
16.30 – 17.00 hrs	Exam and distributing the certificates

This course will be organized in collaboration with ESPEN (European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism) and DGEM (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährungsmedizin e. V.)

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