Taiwan Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

For the past 20 years, under the leadership of our predecessors TSPEN has progressed itself into a strong, energetic and influential academic organization. Our membership has reached its record high by 3,321 from 445. The routine congresses we held in spring and autumn are also making steady growths in their sizes. The 2017 TSPEN Annual Congress, especially, marks a milestone for TSPEN which the number of participants exceeds 700 person-time, and the diverse nationalities of speakers invited shows the society’s ambition of playing a more active role in the international academic exchange. Moreover, we know that our society is going to shoulder more responsibilities with the authentication mechanism of Qualified Nutritional Therapy Team for medical institutions and the identification of Specialist in Nutritional Therapy Team for practicing medical personnel, which we have promoted for years, carrying more weight with government and Taiwan’s medical community. As the newly elected leader of TSPEN, I notice that the society has entered into a stable stage of its progression which seems to be steady but is full of challenges.

It is my honor to earn your trust and gain the opportunity of leading all the TSEPN’s member to open up a new charter. I hope that everyone could engage in the development of the society so that the encouraging change would be made and the hardship would be conquered. In the spirit of “inheriting the past and ushering in the future”, the TSPEN is expected to be a more competitive and forward-looking family, and ready to extend its influence in both domestic and foreign arenas.

The members of 13th executive council would have a close collaboration in the next two years under the strategy of “doing practically and engaging vigorously”. There are four issues that lies clearly at hand. Firstly,
as the nutritional issues have ranked in an upper agenda of medical care, to continuously improve the existing therapeutic modes into a more comprehensive approach is an important challenge in caring patients. It is our mission to properly respond to the challenge by providing a solution combined with nutritional and medical perspectives. In respond, we are going to propose advanced training programs for MD., RD., Ph.C., and RN. respectively so that to enhance expertise of each medical personnel class. Besides, we also expect a promotion of authentication of qualified NTT in medical institutions. Our goal is to popularize the guideline of nutritional and medical care that we stated, and make it a criterion of health care in Taiwan. Secondly, to be in line with government’s policy on promoting Taiwan’s long-term care system, TSPEN should be an active contributor on drawing out the nutritional guideline for home care services, and grab the opportunity to extend the norms of nutritional care to nursing homes and families. Thirdly, maintaining a steady growth of TSPEN’s membership is another focus on the agenda, especially the ratio of valid members. Finally, we expect a continuous progression of spring and autumn congresses since promoting TSPEN to a higher level academic institution in Asia-pacific region should be our unwavering self-demanding.

TSPEN is a society aiming at bringing more active contributions to Taiwan and the world. TSPEN also plays a vital role in Taiwan’s pursuit of excellence in nutrition-related field with its profound thinking of the dynamic of medical knowledge and its eagerness for more engagement in global opportunities. I, as the president of TSPEN, hope that I could serve as the link between past and future, and work together with all the TSPEN’s members to make the society an indispensable stakeholder in global health.