ASPEN Nutrition Nutrition Science and Practice Conference 2026

ASPEN’s 2026 Nutrition Science & Practice Conference brings together clinical nutrition, metabolic support, and multidisciplinary patient care. The listed sessions address parenteral and enteral nutrition safety, critical care, intestinal failure, liver disease, oncology, and pediatric nutrition. Other topics examine drug–nutrient interactions, muscle wasting, obesity therapy, shared decision-making, and the use of artificial intelligence in practice. The program is relevant to physicians, dietitians, pharmacists, nurses, and researchers who work with nutrition support. Held in Long Beach, California, on February 14–17, 2026, the original conference included clinical sessions and preconference activities; the complete Topics list supplied with this product is retained below.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the educational activity, participants should be better able to:

• Explore current scientific research, clinical advances, and evidence-based updates in nutrition and metabolic support.
• Apply contemporary parenteral and enteral nutrition strategies to improve patient care.
• Integrate new evidence into nutrition assessment, treatment planning, and multidisciplinary clinical decision-making.
• Evaluate practical strategies for improving the safety and effectiveness of nutrition support.
• Recognize emerging clinical research across adult, pediatric, critical care, oncology, gastrointestinal, and surgical nutrition.
• Apply evidence-based practice through clinical inquiry, research dissemination, quality improvement, and performance evaluation.
• Strengthen interdisciplinary collaboration among physicians, dietitians, pharmacists, nurses, and other members of the nutrition support team.

Topics

• Bruce R Bistrian Nutrition Mentorship Award Lecture: The Future of Clinical Nutrition is Bright Through Mentoring and Networking

• Charles Van Way III Nutrition Research Discoveries Symposium and Celebration

• Chemistry Fundamentals in Nutrition Support Stability: Drug-Nutrient Interactions and Incompatibilities

• Clinical Practice Enhancement Through Inquiry and Dissemination: A Focus on Performance Improvement Evidence-Based Practice

• Closing the Gaps in Parenteral Nutrition (PN) Safety Results and Implications of the 2025 ASPEN PN Use Survey

• Corporate Symposium: Short Bowel Long Journey Managing Parenteral Nutrition in Complex Adult Patients from ICU to Home

• Current Insights Into Critical Care Nutrition

• Deteriorating Muscle Health in Clinical Conditions – Measuring and Attenuating Muscle Wasting

• Dudrick Research Symposium: The Protein Hype Are We Getting It Right in Aging Obesity and Chronic Disease

• Evolution of Pediatric Weight Management Nutrition and Obesity Medication Therapy

• Fueling the Failing Liver: Nutrition Therapy for Liver Disease

• Intestinotrophic Hormones in Real Patients Today and Tomorrow

• Keynote Address: What is the Future of Nutrition Education? The Next Generation Speaks and the Clinician Responds

• Knowing What to Ask: A Crucially Overlooked Component of Shared Decision Making

• Late-Breaking Updates in Clinical Nutrition: ICD-11 Undernutrition Coding, Multi-Chamber Bag PN Guidance and Augmented Enteral Practice

• Navigating Disordered Eating in Complex Adolescent and Adult GI Patients

• Navigating Home Parenteral Nutrition (HPN): An Interprofessional Team Approach to Pediatric HPN Success

• Navigating the Timely Application of Parenteral Nutrition in Patients Undergoing Solid Organ Transplant

• Nutrition Interventions for Patients With Cardiovascular Diseases: An Outcome-Oriented Approach

• Pediatric Preconference Course: Human Milk and Substitutes Beyond the Basics

• Peggi Guenter Excellence in Clinical Practice Award Lecture: Democratizing Knowledge Strengthening Interprofessional Specialty Care

• Physician Preconference Course: Comprehensive Nutrition Therapy Tactical Approaches in 2026

• Presidents Address: Your Network is Your Net Worth Membership in Professional Organizations Helps Innovate and Saves Lives

• Shift from Ethics as Theory to Ethics in Action: Real-World Clinical Practice

• Stronger Bones in Intestinal Failure: An Interprofessional Healthcare Team Approach

• The ASPEN Nutrition Guidelines for Adult Patients With Head and Neck Cancer

• The Questions Nobody Is Answering: Empirical Responses From the Experts

• Unraveling the POTS, MCAS, and EDS Triad: Gastrointestinal Manifestations and Nutritional Challenges

• Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Patient Care: A 2026 Update

• When Nutrition Gets Surgical: Interprofessional Team Management of Complex Surgical Oncology Cases

Recording scope: Some roundtables, labs, paper sessions, and presentations containing unpublished data may not have been recorded. The conference program and its original participation options do not establish a complete inventory of the files supplied here.

File scope: This purchase covers the educational files offered by MedicalAmboss. It does not include event registration, live attendance, publisher-platform access, accounts, memberships, apps, or publisher-hosted extras.