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The congress in Yokohama was very successful and we are grateful for the outstanding hospitality by our Japanese hosts and the amazing way that they managed to run the congress given the recent natural disaster. The IASMEN program was successful and in particular we found that the joint sessions were very popular. This is also where we as a society need to be - with the others to spread the word about metabolism and nutrition to the other domains and to our colleagues.

After a successful program in Yokohama, IASMEN is now getting ready for the next 2 year period preparing for the upcoming congress in Helsinki. The Central IASMEN committees have been renewed in some positions and some of us stood on for yet another term. This will ensure continuity while also bringing in some new blood.

We have already secured an increasing number of sessions jointly with the other societies at ISW 2013. Andrew Hill is our new program director for the congress.  Any ideas or news that you as an IASMEN member feel he should know about and take into consideration when planning the program, please pass it on to him (a.hill@auckland.ac.nz).

We also plan to activate the web site more and we will also start to link to other societies of interest starting with the ERAS Society.

Olle Ljungqvist

President IASMEN

The following Free Paper presentations were presented in the IASMEN Best Free Paper Session at the Yokohama Congress:

S. Haji [1], H. Ohyanagi [2], T. Nishio [1], M. Kudo [1], Y. Takeyama [1]; [1] Kinki University School of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Japan, [2] Kindai-himeji University, Himeji, Japan; Presenting Author: S. Haji, Japan

S. Srinivasa, A. Kahokehr, T.C. Yu, A.G. Hill; Department of Surgery, University of Auckland, Auckland,

New Zealand; Presenting Author: S. Srinivasa, New Zealand

J. Kinross [1], E. Deaville [2], R. Barton [1], D. Silk [1], R. Goldin [1], E. Holmes [1], J. Nicholson [1], A. Darzi [1]; [1] Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, [2] Reading Food Biosciences Unit, Reading, United Kingdom; Presenting Author: J. Kinross, UK

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IASMEN is now getting ready for the next 2 year period preparing for the upcoming congress in Helsinki.

 

August 25-29, 2013, Helsinki, Finland

Achieving goals in Nutrition

September 8-11, 2012, Barcelona, Spain

The Congress will address the practical aspects of nutritional treatment, defining goals in nutrition care and presenting the advances in the last years.

October 5-7, 2012, Cannes, France

The Congress will address the problem areas from everyone's viewpoint (surgeons, anaesthetists, nursing and management) and create the meeting point where disciplines meet and develop a better understanding of the care pathways and the needs of the patient.