The Leeds Course in Clinical Nutrition

This course is specifically designed to provide a thorough grounding in all aspects of clinical nutrition and:

• summarise national nutrition drivers to provide a foundation for the course

• increase awareness of nutritional compromise and its consequences; give practical guidance on assessment of patients, and discuss particular patient groups (surgical patients, those with irritable bowel syndrome, renal disease, eating disorders and liver disease)

• discuss practicalities of feeding in terms of ethics, different methods of feeding and understand more about different techniques to give artificial nutrition

• establish principles of nutritional importance in extreme clinical situations (short bowel syndrome, refeeding syndrome, parenteral nutrition)

Exhibition
As in previous years, there will be an exhibition on days one and two of the course where we will be joined by suppliers of relevant products for clinical nutrition. 

 If you would be interested in exhibiting, please contact Harriet Wills - clinicalnutrition@leeds.ac.uk.

The Leeds Course in Clinical Nutrition is aimed at you if you’re a professional with an interest in clinical nutrition. It will particularly appeal to you if you have an interest in patient nutrition or if you’re a:

• clinician

• dietitian

• doctor

• hospital pharmacist

• nursing staff member

• others with interest in patient nutrition

Wednesday 3 September 2025: 8.30 – 9am Registration

• Nutrition and risk – what can we do?

• Estimating nutritional requirements

• Workshops:

  • Normal BMI

  • Obese

  • Very underweight

• Nutritional nightmares in gut-brain disorders 

• Nutrition and eating disorders 

• Ethics of feeding

• Nutrition and the liver patient
  
  Course dinner for delegates and speakers (Leeds City Centre)

Thursday 4 September 2025:

• Practicalities of enteral feeding

• Workshops:

  • PEGs/gastrostomy tubes including buried bumpers, measuring tubes etc. 

  • NGs, nasal bridles 

  • Drugs via NG tubes

  • Jejunal feeding tubes

• Short bowel syndrome 

• Preventing the refeeding syndrome

• Nutrition and the surgical patient

Friday 5 September 2025

• Pharmacy and parenteral nutrition

• Nutrition in IBD

• Obesity / bariatric surgery

• Kullavanijaya International Guest Lecture: Small bowel transplant 

• Workshops

  • Short bowel syndrome

  • PN issues – working out requirements

  • Management of abnormal LFTs

• Managing home parenteral nutrition

• 4.30pm     End of day three, close and departure 

Please plan your travel to attend the full course, ensuring you stay through to the end to capture key takeaways and maximise your learning experience. 

Course Director
Dr Clare Donnellan, Consultant Gastroenterologist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

2025 Speakers

Dermot Burke, Senior Lecturer in Surgery, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Dr William Rhys Jones, Consultant Psychiatrist, Yorkshire Centre for Eating Disorders, Leeds
Dr Charlie Millson, Consultant Gastroenterologist, York District Hospital 
Dr Peter Mooney, Consultant Gastroenterologist (Nutrition), Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Dr Jeremy Nightingale, Consultant Gastroenterologist, formerly St Mark’s Hospital, London North West Healthcare NHS Trust
Emma Noble, Clinical Lead Dietitian (Intestinal Failure), Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 
Peter Paine, Consultant Gastroenterologist, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Cathryn Preston, Consultant Gastroenterologist, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Andrew Rochford, Chief Medical Officer, Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes ICB, Consultant Gastroenterologist, Royal Free London Hospitals
Dr Charlotte Rutter, Consultant Gastroenterologist, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Antje Teubner, Associate Specialist Intestinal Failure, Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Sophia Whittaker, Clinical Specialist Dietitian in Bariatric Surgery, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Alison Young, Independent Consultant nurse in Nutrition
Sarah Zeraschi, Consultant Pharmacist Nutrition, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Course fee:

NHS/academic fee: £595 (VAT Exempt) 

Standard/other fee: £775 (VAT Exempt) 

A discount fee is available for BSG members. Please contact Harriet Wills if you are a BSG member.

Course fees include:

• cost of tuition

• paperless course materials

• lunches

• light refreshments

• course dinner (in Leeds City Centre)

View our terms and conditions

Venue:
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences 
University of Leeds
Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9JT

The exact location within the Faculty for course registration and the presentations will be included within your delegate joining instructions to be sent by email (please get in touch if you have not received your course joining instructions).

The nearest public car park is Woodhouse Lane (multi storey) at LS1 3HQ. The car park is open 24 hours. Charges apply. Please click here for information and location details. Please note this car park is a fifteen minute walk to/from our building and delegates should allow ample time to park and register for the course.

Travel

International delegates travelling to the UK may need to apply for an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA). Be sure to apply in advance of your travel date. For further details, visit the UK government website.

Delegates are responsible for organising your own evening meals and accommodation (if required). A list of hotels close to the University is available and will be provided with your course joining instructions.

“A holistic course with multidisciplinary focus which really helped to get a handle on the practical management of clinical nutrition.”
James Kennedy, Royal Berkshire Hospital

“A fabulous overall tour of the highs and lows of nutrition care in both parenteral and enteral patients.”
Victoria Fleming, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals 

“Brilliant course, would definitely recommend to anyone who deals with patients who have complex nutritional needs.”
Badr Abdalla, Cardiff and Vale University health board 

“This is an outstanding course on clinical nutrition, particularly for inpatient issues. The level of expertise amongst the faculty is very high and they create a very friendly and open forum for discussion and learning.”
Dom Crocombe, Royal Free London

Harriet Wills – Course Coordinator

CPD Conference and Events Unit
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT

T: 0113 343 2494

E: clinicalnutrition@leeds.ac.uk 

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