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Fall Conference
November 2nd, 2024
Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center
Framingham, MA 01701
EVENT
SCHEDULE
8:30 am | Registration & Breakfast
9:00 am | President Welcome
9:15 am | Pediatric Lipid Literacy
10:15 am | Nutrition Support & Organ Transplant
11:00 am | Networking Lunch & Vendor Fair
11:45 am | Nutrition Support & Public Policy
12:45 pm | Palliative Care, Hospice & End of Life: Nutrition support considerations
1:45 pm | Networking & Snack
Speaker Highlights
Topic: Pediatric Lipid Literacy
Megan Gray, RD, LDN, CNSC
Principal Medical Liaison
Clinical Nutrition
Worldwide Medical / U.S. & Canada
Baxter Healthcare Corporation
Megan Gray RD, LDN, CNSC is a Registered Dietitian and Principal Medical Liaison for clinical nutrition at Baxter. She obtained her BS in Nutritional Sciences from Cornell University and completed her dietetic internship at Danbury Hospital in Danbury, CT. She previously worked as a Senior Clinical Nutrition Specialist at Boston Children's Hospital for almost 10 years, specializing in the management of pediatric intestinal failure and home parenteral nutrition patients in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. Megan was a founding executive member of the NESPEN chapter for ASPEN and previously served as the secretary and treasurer until 2024. She is currently serving as a dietitian member of the CNSC exam committee.
Topic: Nutrition Support and Public Policy
Penny Allen, RD, LDN, CNSC
NESPEN New Hampshire Director
Former VP, Nutrition Services
Optum Infusion Pharmacy
Penny Allen, RD, LDN, CNSC, began her nutrition support career at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts after obtaining her nutrition degree from the University of New Hampshire. She has spent 35 years in the home infusion setting in a variety of roles, recently retired as the nutrition support lead for Optum Infusion Pharmacy driving state of the art nutrition support care based on ASPEN standards and excellence in home nutrition support. She is a Certified Nutrition Support Clinician (CNSC),, serves as immediate Past Chair of the ASPEN Public Policy Comittee, current Chair of the National Home Infusion's Medicare Contractor and Advisory Committee and is a published subject matter expert in Medicare PN and EN policies and other home nutrition support related topics. Her career passion is improving access to quality nutrition support therapies for all patients.
Topic: Palliative Care, Hospice and End of Life: Nutrition Support Considerations
Adina Hirsch, PharmD, BCNSP, FASPEN
Senior Medical Science Liaison
Medical Affairs, Parenteral Nutrition
Adina, PharmD, BCNSP, is a Senior Medical Science Liaison for parenteral nutrition at Fresenius Kabi since 2015, currently serving the Northeast Region. Adina received her Doctor of Pharmacy Degree from the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at Mercer University and completed and American Society of Health-System Pharmacists accredited PGY-1 residency program with a focus on nutrition support at Atlanta Medical Center in Atlanta, GA. She is board certified as a nutrition support pharmacist since 2013 and was inducted as a fellow of ASPEN in 2022.
Prior to joining Fresenius Kabi, Adina served as a clinical special in the areas of nutrition support and critical care at Saint Joseph's Hospital in Atlanta, an adjunct faculty member and guest lecturer at Mercer University's College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and an assistant professor of pharmacy practice at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Adina currently serves as Newsletter Co-Editor and is a past-president of the Georgia Chapter of ASPEN and the pharmacy liaison for the Maryland chapter of ASPEN and serves on the Georgia Society of Health-System Pharmacists Education Committee. Adina has authored multiple articles and book chapters on nutrition support including a Critical Care Nursing Handbook and Pharmacotherapy First.
Topic: Nutrition Support in Solid Organ Transplant
Jessica Seltz, MS, RD, LDN, CNSC
Adult Clinical Inpatient Dietitian
Liver Transplant Dietitian
Tufts Medical Center
Jessica Seltz, MS, RD, LDN, CNSC, is a clinical dietitian at Tufts Medical Center. She primarily works in critical care, general surgery and transplant. She has also recently begun clinical research on skeletal muscle loss in critically ill patients with cardiogenic shock. She graduated from the University of Connecticut DPD program and completed her MS/DI at Tufts Medical Center Friedman School for Nutrition Science and Policy. After graduation she stayed on as a dietitian and now precepts the program's current interns. She is actively involved in NESPEN, serving as a state liaison, and on the MAND board of directors as the Technology lead. She also teaches small group nutrition lessons to first and third year medical students at Tufts University School of Medicine.
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