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This award recognizes an ASPEN member who significantly advances ASPEN’s advocacy objectives. It is named in honor of Barney Sellers, ASPEN’s former executive director, who had a major impact on public policy during his 15 years in that position.
- Award nominees must be a member of ASPEN.
- Award nominees must have contributed to ASPEN’s advocacy and public policy initiatives
2025 Barney Sellers Award Winner
Patricia M. Byers, MD, FACS, FASPEN, is a Professor and Section Chief in Surgical Nutrition and Metabolic Surgery at the Ryder Trauma Center/Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, FL. She became interested in nutrition while working in trauma and critical care, where she saw the impact of nutrition support on this patient population. She credits her career development to mentors like Drs. Stanley Dudrick, Bruce Bistrian, and Miguel Echenique.
Dr. Byers advocates for the importance of a multidisciplinary team in the care of patients receiving nutrition support, and how all members of the team are able to learn and grow from each other. She highlights the minimal nutrition training that surgical residents receive and yet surgical patients can benefit the most from nutrition support. In her institution, she makes sure that her surgical residents are exposed to their nutrition support team and gain experience in writing orders for TPN.
| Patricia M. Byers, MD, FACS, FASPEN | 2025 |
| Penny Allen, RD, CNSC, FASPEN | 2021 |
| Sharon Durfee, RPh, BCNSP | 2020 |
| David S. Seres, MD, ScM, PNS, FASPEN | 2019 |
| Daniel Teitelbaum, MD, FASPEN (posthumous) | 2018 |
| Peggi Guenter, PhD, RN, FAAN, FASPEN | 2017 |
| Lillian Harvey Banchik, MD, CNSC, FACS | 2016 |
| Jay M. Martillo, MS, RPh, BCNSP, FASHP, FASPEN | 2015 |
| Alan Parver, JD | 2014 |
| Lawrence A. Robinson, BS, MS, PharmD | 2013 |
| Van S. Hubbard, MD, PhD | 2012 |
| Lynne Murphy, RN, MSN | 2011 |