Course Description CME Advisory Committee General Information Faculty Registration Form We are pleased to invite you to attend the annual Western Canada Nutrition Day. Once again the program promises to be a stellar educational event with opportunity to enhance dialogue and information exchange among nutrition support professionals. This year includes a focus on obesity. We look forward to seeing you at WCND 2002.

Saturday, November 2nd, 2002

0730 REGISTRATION DESK OPENS
Continental Breakfast

Chair: Leah Gramlich
0800 Introductions & Welcome
Leah Gramlich

0815 Medical Management of Obesity
Robert Kushner

0915 Dietary Factors Influencing Obesity
- how much should Canadians eat?
" Common issues and intervention strategies
" Metabolic and body composition changes with weight loss
Peter Jones

1000 REFRESHMENT BREAK

1030 Surgical Management of Obesity
" Implications of various operative procedures for weight loss on nutritional status
" Importance of vitamin supplementation and long-term follow-up
Scott Shikora

1115 Physical Activity in Type 2 Diabetes
" Using pedometers to monitor and motivate
" Guidelines for exercise in patients with Type 2 Diabetes
Rhonda Bell

1145 LUNCH

1245 Case Presentations
1) Enteral Nutrition in Critical Care;
" Case Studies of Severe Pancreatic Trauma
" Challenges and advantages of enteral and TPN
Morad Hameed

2) Feeding the Hemodynamically Unstable Patient
" NPO vs Postpyloric enteral feeding
Maricel Reddy

1345 Novel Strategies for Preventing
Diarrheal Diseases in Pediatrics
" Oral rehydration solutions and refeeding
" Enteric vaccines and probiotics
Philip Sherman

1445 REFRESHMENT BREAK

1500 Nutrition Intervention in Hemodialysis: The Hemo Study
" nutritional status of chronic hemodialysis patients
" associations of nutritional factors with physical and quality of life indices
Johanna Dwyer

1600 MEETING EVALUATION & ADJOURN