Welcome to ASPEN’s international member community. Here you can find all resources pertaining to your international membership. As an ASPEN member you can take advantage of the resources you need to make sure your patients receive the best possible care. Whether it’s keeping up-to-date on the latest developments in clinical nutrition, earning continuing education (CE) credit through our professional development programs, or connecting with peers, ASPEN has what you need to excel in the field of nutrition support.
Noteworthy International Achievements
Vienna Declaration
ASPEN is pleased to sign on to this important declaration on the Human Right to Nutritional Care. It is a global call to policymakers, medical organizations and civil society organizations for urgent action against disease related malnutrition.
Clinical Nutrition and Human Rights: International Position Paper
The International Working Group for Patients’ Rights to Nutritional Care, of which ASPEN is a member, presented its position on nutritional care as a human right that is intrinsically linked to the right to food and the right to health. The paper discusses the importance of a human rights-based approach to clinical nutrition and to developing a moral, political, and legal focus for nutrition care.
Cartagena Declaration
FELANPE has released a short video explaining the Cartagena Declaration, an international declaration on the right to nutritional care and the fight against malnutrition. The declaration was signed by all FELANPE presidents on May 3, 2019. Watch the video here.
International Membership Opportunities
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Specialty Sections
The purpose of the ILAS is to disseminate information on nutrition support therapy with the intent of empowering providers with the necessary knowledge to provide better quality patient care for those individuals requiring nutritional support, particularly for Spanish/Portuguese speaking professionals.
The purpose of the ICES is to achieve a patient-centered focus in the management of nutrition support (artificial nutrition and hydration), including options not to provide the therapy for patient.
The purpose of the ICNS is to support and encourage international healthcare professional’s involvement in ASPEN and establish a forum for the exchange of ideas and practices worldwide.
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Global Nutrition Partnership Program
The Global Nutrition Partnership Program (GNP) allows international sister societies from countries classified by the World Bank as low or middle income economies to have a group of their members join ASPEN for a reduced membership fee.
ASPEN International Outreach
International PEN Society Collaboration
ASPEN has partnerships with international federations that support the clinical nutrition community.
The European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN)
Established in 1980, succeeding the International Society of Parenteral Nutrition (founded in 1966).
66 PEN Member Societies.
Latin American Federal of Nutritional Therapy, Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (FELANPE)
Established in 1988.
Cartegena Declaration in 2019 led to the Vienna Declaration in 2022 “Nutritional care is a human right.”
The Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Society of Asia (PENSA)
Established in 1995 by physicians from Japan, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Pakistan, and Thailand.
International Nutrition Support Societies
Learn about clinical nutrition practices around the globe. Below are links to organizations worldwide that are dedicated to clinical nutrition support research and practice.
Asociación Argentina de Nutrición Enteral y Parenteral (AANEP)
Asociación Chilena de Nutrición Clínica, Obesidad y Metabolismo (Chile)
Asociacion Colombiana de Nutricion Clinica (ACNC)
Asociación Salvadoreña de Nutrición Enteral y Parenteral (ASANPEN)
Canadian Nutrition Society – Societe canadienne de nutrition (CNS)
Colegio de Mexicano de Nutrición Clínica y Terapia Nutricional A.C. (Mexico)
European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN)
Federación Latinoamericana de Nutrición Parenteral y Enteral (FELANPE)
India Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (IAPEN)
Indian Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ISPEN)
Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Society of Asia (PENSA)
Pakistan Nutrition and Dietetic Society (Pakistan)
Philippine Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (PhilSPEN)
Sociedade Brasileira de Nutrição Parenteral e Enteral (SBNPE)
Sociedad Cubana de Nutrición Clínica y Metabolismo (Cuba)
Sociedad Dominicana de Nutrición Clínica y Metabolismo (SODONUCLIM)
Sociedad Dominicana de Nutricion Enteral Y Parenteral (SODONEP)
Turkish Society of Clinical Enteral & Parenteral Nutrition (KEPAN)