1st Annual Advancing Sickle Cell Nutrition Conference

Are you a health or medical professional working with clients with Sickle Cell Disease?

Do you know about nutrition as a management option in Sickle Cell Disease?

This conference will provide you with the opportunity to hear first-hand from a haematology consultant, GP and consultant dietitian about the vital role of nutrition as a management option in Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). By attending you will be able to advance your knowledge, understanding and practice concerning the nutritional management of sickle cell patients.

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The Conference is being hosted by Dr Claudine Matthews, founder of SICKLE CELL NUTRITION ACADEMY, Award winning Consultant Dietitian and leading global expert on the integration of nutrition into standard care provision in SCD.

Presently, nutrition in SCD is a neglected part of standard care provision impacting the experience, access and outcomes of people living with sickle cell disease.

This conference seeks to address these health inequalities inherent in the lack of nutrition service provision by focussing on the benefits of the role of nutrition as a management option in SCD. Furthermore, consideration is given to findings of a recent doctoral study highlighting the myriad of influencing factors affecting nutrition and service provision impacting on the integration of nutrition into standard care, necessary to help mitigate some of the debilitating symptoms related to the clinical features of the condition.

This in person conference, aims to achieve the following:

1. Provide you with an overview of the existing scientific literature and new research perspectives on the topic of the SCD and the importance of nutritional management.

2. Provide clinical perspectives from practitioners on the need for the nutritional management of SCD to improve patient outcomes.

3. Provide scientific evidence in support of the integration of nutrition into standard care provision in SCD to address the health inequality associated with the lack of nutrition service provision.

4. Provide an overview of the influencing factors affecting nutrition integration and service provision in SCD and the complexity, invisibility and marginalisation of sickle cell nutrition.

5. Provide case study evidence of the nutritional needs of sickle cell patients that require nutritional management.

Keynote Speakers:

Dr Martin Besser – Lead Heamatology Consultant (Cambridge University Hospital)

Dr Lewis Thomas – GP, Life Coach (Manchester)

Dr Claudine Matthews – Consultant Dietitian (London)

Guest speaker:

Susan Price – Chair delegate BDA (Birmingham)

Who is the conference for?

Haematologists, doctors, GPs, dietitians, nutritionists, clinical psychologists, health psychologists, nurses, researchers, health and social care professionals.

Host or Publisher SICKLE CELL NUTRITION ACADEMY