In October 2024 it was the 10-year anniversary for the Neonatal Nutrition & Gastroenterology Working Group within the Swedish Neonatal Society (https://neo.barnlakarforeningen.se/).
Since its formation in 2014 the working group has organized a number of courses and training sessions and written and revised several guidelines including on Nutritional intake, Breastmilk management, Hypoglycemia, Osteopenia, Probiotics, Iron supplements, Vitamin K prophylaxis, Multivitamin drops and Newborns with long-term Parenteral nutrition/intestinal failure.
To celebrate the 10-year anniversary the group had an in-person meeting in Stockholm on 23 October where among other items on the agenda were updates to hypoglycemia recommendations, zink supplementation, updates from ongoing studies, new EU regulation on breastmilk banks, a potential new RCT on DHA/ARA supplementation in extremely preterm infants and decisions regarding which care programs/guidelines to next draft and/or review.
The half-day meeting was followed by a celebratory dinner in the evening.
Current members of the working group are:
- Magnus Domellöf (chair), Umeå
- Barbro Diderholm (secretary), Uppsala
- Anders Elfvin, Göteborg
- Elena Palleri, Stockholm
- Emmanuelle Wallin, Stockholm
- Fredrik Ahlsson, Uppsala
- Ingrid Pupp, Lund
- Itay Zamir, Umeå
- Josefine Lundström, Stockholm
- Thomas Abrahamsson, Linköping
”This is a super-team of dedicated clinicians and researchers, writing state-of-the-art evidence-based national guidelines, doing collaborative clinical trials, and being great friends”, said Prof Magnus Domellöf, current chairman of the group and one of the founding members.
From left to right: Fredrik Ahlsson, Barbro Diderholm, Itay Zamir, Magnus Domellöf, Thomas Abrahamsson, Ingrid Pupp, Anders Elfvin, Josefin Lundström and Elena Palleri.
Absent: Emmanuelle Wallin
