Add Preconference Courses
For early arrivers, ASPEN offers select courses in the days preceding the conference:

Friday, March 21 
8:00 AM - 3:30 PM ET
Comprehensive Nutrition Therapy: Tactical Approaches in 2025
Engage with physicians who integrate nutrition into their patients’ treatment plans and underscore its impact on patient outcomes. Sessions cover nutrition care in patients with liver disease, diabetes, malignancy, and trauma/critical care, and conclude with presentations of complex clinical case vignettes.
Course offered in person only

Saturday, March 22
7:00 AM - 11:00 AM ET
Nutrition for the Practicing Pediatric Clinician: Intricacies of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Management in Specialized Pediatric Populations 
Explore the specialized nutrition requirements of pediatric patients with complex medical challenges such as intestinal failure, neurodevelopmental challenges, necrotizing enterocolitis, and congenital heart disease.
Course offered in person only

7:00 AM - 11:00 AM ET
Post Graduate Course: Optimizing Macronutrient Delivery in Parenteral Nutrition
Learn how to optimize macronutrient delivery in PN to reduce metabolic complications. Through case-based discussions and evidence-based recommendations, learn practical approaches for adopting the latest ASPEN and ESPEN guidelines. 
Course offered in person only

7:00 AM - 12:00 PM ET 
Research Workshop: Novel Nutritional and Metabolic Status Biomarkers
This workshop aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current evidence for biomarkers in use as well as those in development. This shall be achieved with a critical review of literature, panel discussions, presentations, open discussions, and question/answer sessions, seeking areas ripe for new clinical, translational, and basic research.
Course offered in person only