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Career Development
Volunteer Opportunities
ASPEN | Volunteer Opportunities
Mentorship Opportunities
The Physician Engagement Committee offers mentor and mentee opportunities to help grow your career. If you are a physician seeking a mentorship opportunity within ASPEN, please contact Kelly Kinnare for more information.
Grants and Awards
Physician Podcast
NEW! This podcast uses a structured yet conversational format to explore real clinical nutrition cases, guiding listeners through patient presentation, clinical reasoning, intervention decisions, and outcomes while highlighting practical takeaways and relevant evidence. Each episode features a guest who shares a de-identified case, discusses challenges and decision-making, and reflects on lessons learned. If you would like to participate in a podcast, please submit your interest here.
Physician Spotlight
This section contains interviews of senior leaders, young rising stars and international colleagues in nutrition.
Research and Written Scholarship
Publication Opportunities
The Physician Engagement Committee, in partnership with Nutrition in Clinical Practice, publishes thought-provoking and educational nutrition articles, spearheaded by physician nutrition specialists. The publication may be a:
This article will highlight a recently published (within 12 months) high-impact, practice-changing nutrition study. This article will provide an in-depth presentation of the study’s background/relevance, design, and impact. Optional practical recommendations may also be included.
This article will either be a formal systematic review or narrative review (with systematic query and article selection) on a focused nutrition topic.
This article focuses on a controversial nutrition-related topic, while providing sophisticated, evidence-based discussion of counterpoints by at least 2 physician nutrition specialists, each taking one of each opposing side.
This article focuses on a clinical problem for which there appears to be no clearly optimal method of management. The discussion should emphasize the nature of the dilemma and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of various alternatives available for management of the clinical problem, while providing research-based evidence to support the counterpoints.
Proposed article topics will be vetted prior to manuscript preparation. In addition, the committee is seeking peer reviewers for these publications. If interested in a publication or peer review opportunity, please contact Lindsey Russell.
Recent PEC Publications
Physician Education
Physician Preconference Course
Planning is underway for the Physician Preconference Course at ASPEN27 in Chicago, IL on February 13, 2027. Check back here for more details as they become available.
Other Physician-Focused Education Opportunities
Metabolic Mayhem: Interprofessional Care in Severe Burn Injury— Case Study Approach – ASPEN
Outreach and Engagement
Medical Practice Section
The Medical Practice Section (MPS) is sponsored by the Physician Engagement Committee (PEC) and is committed to improving education and member involvement, with a particular emphasis on increasing physician awareness, visibility, and networking in clinical nutrition. The section sponsors a symposium every year at the ASPEN annual meeting and works year-round to provide physicians and other medical professionals opportunities to engage in nutrition mentorship, research, and clinical practice. The MPS is led by a chair and chair-elect, who are active members of the PEC. Membership is open to all disciplines, and cross-collaboration among providers is encouraged.
To learn more about opportunities with MPS, including educational and curricular events and member outreach programming, please contact the current chair, Michael Owen-Michaane.