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Duke University School of Medicine, North Carolina
Paul E. Wischmeyer, MD, EDIC, FCCM, FASPEN is a critical care, perioperative and nutrition physician who serves as a Professor with Tenure of Anesthesiology and Surgery at Duke University School of Medicine. He also serves as the Director of the Nutrition Team at Duke Hospital and Co-Director of the Duke Clinical Nutrition Fellowship. Dr. Wischmeyer’s clinical and research focus is on helping patients prepare and recover from critical illness and surgery. His research interests include surgical and ICU nutrition and exercise rehabilitation therapy, parenteral nutrition and personalized nutrition trials, perioperative optimization, post-illness muscle mass and functional recovery, and the role of probiotics/microbiome in illness, specifically COVID-19 prevention/treatment. Dr. Wischmeyer has received numerous awards for his work from national and international societies, including the Jeffrey Silverstein Award and Memorial Lecture for Humanism in Medicine from the American Delirium Society, Fellow of Society of Critical Care Medicine (FCCM), the John M. Kinney Award for most significant contribution to the field of general nutrition, the Stanley Dudrick Research Scholar Award of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition where he is also an honorary Fellow of ASPEN (FASPEN). In 2025 he received the ASPEN Bruce Bistrian Clinical Nutrition Mentorship Award, as well as the Excellence in Nutrition Support Education Award from ASPEN in 2020, and he has received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Parenteral Nutrition Education and Methodology Advancement for significant contributions to nutrition. He has >250 publications (H index-77 and >60 papers with >100 citations) in critical care, nutrition and perioperative care, including publications in New England Journal of Medicine. He has been an invited speaker at numerous national/international meetings, delivering >1000 invited presentations. Finally, he is an advocate and lecturer for improving the patient experience and teaching provider’s to keep CARE as the focus of healthcare.
"They Didn’t Say What to Eat": Patient Recall and Use of ICU-Initiated Nutrition Messaging
Sunday, March 22, 2026
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Central Time
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Precision Medicine Should Be Used Instead of Guidelines
Monday, March 23, 2026
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM Central Time
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Tuesday, March 24, 2026
10:05 AM - 10:20 AM Central Time
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Social Context Shapes Nutrition Behaviors in Older Trauma ICU Survivors
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Central Time
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From Calorimetry to the Kitchen Table: Patient Perceptions of ICU-Initiated Precision Nutrition
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Central Time
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