Farewell to Associate Editor Dr. Xavier Forceville We would like to thank Dr. Xavier Forceville for his time spent as an Associate Editor of ESPEN in the fields of trace element vitamins and antioxidants. We wish him well, and look forward to working with him in the future. Thank you Xavier, and best wishes. The Editorial Office & Friends.
Welcome to new Associate Editor Prof Mette M. Berger
Prof. Mette M. Berger, MD, PhD is currently Consultant Intensivist at the Adult Intensive Care Service and Burns of CHUV, the Lausanne University Hospital, specializing in burns resuscitation and clinical nutrition. She received her M.D. degree from Lausanne School of Medicine in 1989, and her medical PhD from the University of Umeå-Sweden in 1996 (trace elements research). She completed her residency in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at the CHUV, with intermittent fellowships in Karolinska - Stockholm and Royal North Shore e Sydney. She trained as a full nutritionist in Nancy-France. She has authored over 160 publications in micronutrients, nutritional therapy of the critically ill, as well as burn and trauma metabolic care. Her research interests are in clinical nutrition and antioxidant micronutrients in the critically ill, with a special focus on severe burns. She has contributed to developing the concept of the energy debt in acute conditions, promoting the use of computerized information systems to monitor nutritional therapy and combined enteral and parenteral feeding. Prof. Berger lectures nationally and internationally in antioxidant support, clinical nutrition, and burn care. She is one of the medical coordinators of the Swiss burn plan. Prof. Berger has held positions as President and Treasurer of the Swiss Society of Clinical Nutrition (SSNC), is member of the ESPEN-ICU guidelines group, and deputy of the ESICMMEN group, and member of the ESICM-PACT experts. She is ICU section editor for Current Op in Clin Nutr Metab Care. We all look forward to working with her.
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