Committee Members

Local Organising Committee


  • Osman Abbasoğlu, Local President
  • Seher Demirer, Local Vice President
  • Haldun Gündoğdu
  • Sadık Kılıçturgay
  • Murat Gündüz
  • Mutlu Doğanay
  • Çetin Kaymak
  • Kubilay Demirağ

Local Scientific Committee


  • Mehmet Uyar, Chair
  • Alper Uğuz
  • Hülya Ulusoy
  • İlker Taşçı
  • Levent Güngör
  • Müge Akmansu
  • Kutay Demirkan
  • Hülya Gökmen Özel

Local Educational Committee


  • Meltem Halil, Chair          
  • Bülent Saka
  • Kürşat Gündoğan
  • Zarife Kuloğlu
  • Derya Hopancı Bıçaklı
  • Burcu Kelleci Çakır
  • Rana Elçin Sezer

Central Executive Committee


  • Stanislaw Klek, Chairman
  • Kalliopi-Anna Poulia, General Secretary
  • Alessandro Laviano, Treasurer
  • Osman Abbasoğlu, President 2027

Central ESPEN Scientific Committee


  • Mireille J. M. Serlie, Chair
  • Francisca Joly, Permanent Member
  • Claudia P. Heidegger, Permanent Member
  • Nicolaas E.P. Deutz, Permanent Member
  • Mehmet Uyar, Rotating Member

Central Educational and Clinical Practice Committee


  • Michela Zanetti, Physician
  • Uchu Meade, Pharmacist
  • Kerstin Möcking, Nurse
  • Darija Vranesic, Dietitian
  • Meltem Halil, Rotating Member

Associated Committees


IT Communication Officer

  • Marcin Folwarski

Clinical Nutrition Editors

  • Pierre Singer
  • Ronan Thibault
  • Osman Abbasoğlu, Interim Editor, Clinical Nutrition
  • Arthur van Zanten, Interim Editor, Clinical Nutrition

ESPEN Guidelines Officers

  • Laurence Genton
  • Arved Weimann

LLL Board Members

  • Rémy Meier, LLL Course Director
  • Regina Komsa, Kalliopi-Anna Poulia, & Eliza Mei Francisco, LLL Co-Directors

NEMS

  • Maurizio Muscaritoli
  • Cristina Cuerda

nutritionDay

  • Michael Hiesmayr
  • Silvia Tarantino

Malnutrition Awareness Week

  • Maria Ballesteros-Pomar

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