Special events
Weekend Warrior Nutrition Support Program
Where: The Estates of Sunnybrook | Vaughan Estate | Courtyard Ballroom 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, ON
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is pleased to present this popular two-day course in Toronto for the very first time. This program is a weekend alternative to the successful five-day Nutrition Support Traineeship Program at the University of Virginia Health System (UVAHS). The goal is to provide up-to-date, evidence-based, and practical information on nutrition support management of specific disease states.
Program Presenters
Carol Rees Parrish MS, RD
Nutrition Support Specialist
University of Virginia Health System Digestive Health Center
Charlottesville, VA
Carol Rees Parrish has 36 years of clinical experience, the past 26 of which have been spent specializing in nutrition support and GI disorders at UVAHS, Digestive Health Center. Carol founded the Medicine Nutrition Support Service in 1991, began the home nutrition support program at the UVAHS Home Health Company, developed the GI Nutrition Clinic, originated the UVAHS Celiac Support Group, and is the co-founder of the UVAHS Nutrition Support Traineeship, Weekend Warrior, and Webinar educational programs. She has been the nutrition series editor for the popular Practical Gastroenterology Journal's Nutrition Series since 2003, having published over 155 articles in the series. She has many publications, abstracts and chapters, and has given well over 200 presentations at local, state, regional, national and international conferences. Carol’s passion in GI and nutrition support includes short gut/malabsorptive disorders, enteral and parenteral feeding modalities, small bowel bacterial overgrowth, pancreatitis, gastroparesis, refeeding syndrome, and many other GI disorders. She has been awarded the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Distinguished Nutrition Support Dietitian Advanced Clinical Practice Award (2006), and the DNS Distinguished Practice Award, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Dietitians in Nutrition Support (DNS) Dietetic Practice Group.
Joe Krenitsky MS, RDN
Nutrition Support Specialist
University of Virginia Health System
Joe Krenitsky has been a Registered Dietitian since 1988 and has been at UVA since 1992. He is the co-lead of the UVA Medical Nutrition Support Team, a co-developer of the Nutrition Support Traineeship and Weekend Warrior programs at UVA, and is the primary author of the UVA e-journal club. Joe has received the ASPEN Distinguished Nutrition Support Dietitian- Advanced Practice Award, and has written and presented on a variety of GI and nutrition support related topics. His professional interests include nutrition support in critical care, hepatic failure, acute kidney injury and the importance of evidence analysis.
Program schedule
Saturday, October 21, 2017
Time | Event |
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8:00 - 8:30 a.m. | Registration, continental breakfast |
8:30 - 8:45 a.m. | Welcome & Introduction |
8:45 - 9:45 a.m. |
Nutritional Care of the Patient with Gastroparesis - Carol Rees Parish
|
9:45 - 10:45 a.m. |
Clinicians’ Guide to Gastric Versus Jejunal Feeding - Joe Krenitsky
|
10:45 - 11:00 a.m. |
Break |
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
Maximizing Nutritional Status After Upper GI Surgery - Carol Rees Parish
|
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. | Lunch buffet / networking |
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. |
Inflammatory Bowel Disease / Crohn’s Disease - Joe Krenitsky
|
2:00 - 2:15 p.m. | Break |
2:15 - 3:45 p.m. |
Optimization of Enteral Autonomy in the Adult Short Bowel Patient - Carol Rees Parish
|
3:45 - 4:15 p.m. |
Questions & Answers/Wrap up |
Sunday, October 22, 2017
Time | Event |
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8:45 - 9:30 a.m. | Contenential breakfast/networking |
9:30 - 10:30 a.m. |
Enteral Feeding in Hemodynamic Compromise: Stop, Yield, or Proceed with Caution? - Joe Krenitsky
|
10:30 - 10:45 a.m. |
Break |
10:45 - 11:45 a.m. |
Nutrition in Hepatitis and Hepatic Failure - Joe Krenitsky
|
11:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
Questions & answers |
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. |
Lunch buffet / networking |
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. |
Feeding the Patient with Pancreatitis - Carol Rees Parish
|
2:00 - 2:15 p.m. |
Break |
2:15 - 3:15 p.m. |
Nutrition Support in Acute Kidney Injury - Joe Krenitsky
|
3:15 - 3:45 p.m. |
Questions & Answers/Wrap up |
Directions
Vaughan Estate is located in midtown Toronto on the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre campus and is accessible by car or public transportation. The Courtyard Ballroom is located on the lower floor of the Vaughan Estate.
By Car
From Bayview Avenue, turn east onto the north entrance of Sunnybrook campus (Armistice Drive) and follow the signs to the Vaughan Estate. Free parking is available.
By Public Transportation
Take the Bayview 11 bus or the Lawrence 124 bus to Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Get off in front of Wellspring Cancer Support Centre (on the map), and walk along Armistice Drive to Vaughan Estate. Check ttc.ca for up-to-date bus routes and schedules

Accomodations
The following accommodations are within 10-15 minute driving distance of the Vaughan Estate:
Best Western Roehampton Hotel & Suites
808 Mount Pleasant Road Toronto, ON M4P 2L2
Phone: 1-800-780-7234
Toronto Don Valley Hotel & Suites
175 Wynford Drive Toronto, ON M3C 1J3
Phone: 1-877-474-6835
Registration details
Registration is limited to 60 participants. This is to ensure an optimal learning experience, which will be enhanced by interactive case studies, group discussion, and question/answer periods. Registration will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis. Single-day or on-site registration will not be accepted.
Thirty (30) participants must be registered by Friday July 7, 2017 in order for this program to take place.
Registration Fee: $500 CDN. This includes continental breakfast, lunch buffet, refreshments, free parking, and printed program materials for both days. Please make cheques or money orders in Canadian dollars payable to “Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre”
Cancellation policy
Registration Cancellation: Paid registration may be cancelled in writing before Friday, September 22, 2017. The registration fee minus a $75 administrative fee will be refunded. There will be no refunds after this date, however, participant substitution will be allowed.
Event Cancellation: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre reserves the right to cancel the program if the number of registrants does not reach the minimum requirement of thirty (30) by Friday, July 7, 2017.
Contact information
Andrea Ho, RD
Clinical Dietitian, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
E-mail: andrea.ho@sunnybrook.ca
How to register
Please mail the following details, along with a cheque or money order (in Canadian dollars payable to “Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre”), to:
Andrea Ho, RD
Clinical Dietitian
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
2075 Bayview Avenue, Room D405
Toronto, ON M4N 3M5
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