Critical Care Section Forum: Metabolomics in Critical Care – Past, Present, and Future

Section Forum

Date & Time:

February 16, 2026

6:00 PM – 7:15 PM PT

Format:

In Person

session objectives:

What You'll Learn

Join the Critical Care Section as three experts discuss:

  • Defining metabolomics, an exciting field that offers deeper insight into disrupted metabolic pathways with potential applications in critical care
  • Use of metabolomics in acute and chronic critical illness to provide personalized and precise nutrition therapy
  • Differences between metabolomics and the notoriously inaccurate biomarkers for the diagnosis and monitoring of malnutrition

Topics & Presenters

Metabolomics in Critical Care - Current State of the Art and Future Applications

Kenneth B. Christopher
MD, MS

Editor-in-Chief, JPEN

American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

Associate Physician

Division of Renal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Division of Nutrition, Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

Metabolomics in Acute Critical Illness

Kris Mogensen
MS, RD-AP, LDN, CNSC

Team Leader Dietitian Specialist

Department of Nutrition, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston, MA

Metabolomics in Chronic Critical Illness

Martin Rosenthal
MD, FACS, FASPEN

Associate Professor

Division of Acute Care Surgery, University of Florida Health

Director, Abdominal Wall Reconstruction and Intestinal Rehab Service

Department of Surgery, University of Florida Health

Gainesville, FL

Moderators:

D. Dante Yeh

MD, MHPE, FACS, FCCM, FASPEN, CNSC

Chief of Emergency General Surgery

Denver Health

Professor of Surgery

Denver Health

Denver, CO

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