Education – Annual PEN Group Awards

PEN Group Award Winners 2011

 

The 2011 awards went to Kay Baxter and Fiona Struthers, ICU Dietitians from the NHS Forth Valley for their application entitled Estimating Nutritional Requirements in the Obese Patient; and Kirtsy-Anna McLaughlin and Anne Holdoway, from the Dietetic Department, Royal National Hospital Rheumatic Diseases Bath and the Dietetic Department, Royal United Hospital Bath respectively, for their application entitled Energy required for weight maintenance in traumatic brain injury rehabilitation patients versus predictor equations.

 

Congratulations to the winners of the 2011 awards which were kindly sponsored by Fresenius-Kabi and Abbott Nutrition. On behalf of the PEN Group committee I would also like to thank those other PEN Group members who applied for the PENG Award this year - it is always difficult judging the Awards because of the high calibre of applicants.

 

The judging for the PEN Group Awards was carried out independently by 3 judges and each applicant was blinded and the judges used a set judging criteria. The lucky PEN Group Award winners were announced at the Late Summer PEN Group Meeting in November where each winner was presented with their Award and certificate.

Winner of the Annual PEN Group Award 2010

Supported by Abbott Nutrition and Fresenius-Kabi

 

Congratulations to this year’s winner Laura Mash, Neurosciences Dietitian from Salford for her work, undertaken along with Alison Levy, entitled “Weighing up the Cost of Supplements” a community nutrition support project investigating and facilitating actions to encourage the appropriate prescribing of Oral Nutritional Supplements (ONS).

 

Laura presented the work at the PEN Group summer meeting, a copy of the presentation can be viewed on the PEN Group website.

 

The PEN Group committee would also like to congratulate Laura on her recent presentation of this work at ESPEN’s annual meeting in NICE, France.