Description

Objectives:

1. Understand the role of lean body mass in outcome from illness and injury
2. Summarize the role of specific techniques for body mass assessment in adult patients
3. Describe and understand the role of specific techniques for body mass assessment in neonatal patients

Speaker(s):

• Vickie Baracos, PhD, Professor, Department of Oncology, Division of Palliative Care Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• Carrie P. Earthman, PhD, RD, Professor, Nutrition, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
• Melissa Rice, DO, Neonatology Fellow, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center