Nutrition and Metabolism Research Paper Session: Critical Care and Critical Health Issues (M44)

Paper Session

Date & Time:

February 16, 2026

3:45 PM – 5:15 PM PT

Format:

In Person & Virtual

CE Credits:

1.5 Hours

UAN: JA0002345-0000-26-043-L99-P

Course level:

Advanced

session objectives:

What You'll Learn

Today’s medical environment demands evidence-based practice, replicable results, and improved patient outcomes. Our abstract authors conduct research to help meet these challenges and provide breakthroughs in our knowledge and in our patient care. These sessions are dedicated to presentations of high-ranking abstracts. Abstracts are presented by topic, so you can explore cutting edge research on issues that interest you. The abstracts will also be published in the Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (JPEN), making them part of the body of evidence available to guide your clinical care.

Topics & Presenters

Utilizing Vasopressor Dose Equivalence Score-Guided Enteral Nutrition Initiation for Patients With Hemodynamic Instability

Emily L. Brumsted
MS, RD, CNSC

Clinical Inpatient Adult Registered Dietitian

Critical Care, UCSF Medical Center

San Francisco, CA

ABCs of Critical Care: Adding "G" for Good Nutrition to the ICU Bundle

Ambika Chawla
MS, RD

Assistant Vice President, Nutrition Services

Northwell Health

New Hyde Park, NY

MFN2 Dysfunction Mediates Candida Albicans–Induced Mitochondrial and Calcium Dysregulation in ICU-Acquired Weakness

Xin Chen
MD Candidate

Nanjing Jinling Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Medical School, Nanjing University

Nanjing, Jiangsu, China (People's Republic)

Copper Deficiency From Trace Element Withholding in Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy Patients With Hyperbilirubinemia: A Case Series Driving Micronutrient Practice Improvement

Ranna Modir
MS, RD, CNSC, CDCES, CCTD

Clinical Dietitian IV

Cardiac Transplant, MCS, VAD, Stanford Health Care

Stanford, CA

Early IC-Guided and RD-Led Personalized Nutrition Using the SeND Home (StructurEd Nutrition Delivery) Pathway in Trauma Laparotomy Patients

Leslie Murray
RD, LDN, CNSC

Clinical Dietitian

Duke University Health System

Raleigh, NC

Exploring the Effect of Bolus Amino Acid Supplementation and Mobilization on Anabolic, Catabolic, and Autophagic Pathways in the Late Acute Phase of Critical Illness: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Lizl Veldsman
PhD, RD, M Nutr Sc, BSc

Clinical Dietitian

Surgical / Trauma ICU, Tygerberg Hospital

Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

Stellenbosch University

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Moderators:

Sarita Bajpai

RDN, CNSC, CD, PhD

Clinical Dietitian Senior

University Hospital, IU Health

Indianapolis, IN

Benjamin Hall

MD, FACS

Director of Surgical Nutrition

Brown University Health

Assistant Professor of Surgery

Brown University Health

Providence, RI

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