Nutrition Across the Surgical Pathway for Gastrointestinal Cancer 2026

08:30

Registration, tea and coffee

09:00

Introductions and housekeeping

Preoperative Optimisation

09:15

Prehabilitation and nutrition – where are we at?

• Alice Kershaw, Senior Specialist Lower Gastrointestinal Surgery Dietitian, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
• Gemma Fagan, Senior Specialist Gastrointestinal Surgery Dietitian, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

09:50

Prehabilitation and exercise

• Helen Ainsworth, Physiotherapy Team, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
• Gemma Tham, Physiotherapy Team, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

10:25

Psychology in GI surgery

• Dr Alistair Thompson, Highly Specialist Practitioner Psychologist in Gastrointestinal Cancer Surgery, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

11:00

Tea and coffee break

Surgery

11:15

Oesophagectomy and gastrectomy – what’s done, what’s left and complications

• Mr Mark Kelly, Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon

11:50

Lower gastrointestinal surgery – what’s done, what’s left and complications

12:25

Parenteral nutrition with a focus on type 1 intestinal failure

• Rebecca Bradshaw, Principal Dietitian – Intestinal Failure and Lower Gastrointestinal Surgery, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

13:00

Lunch

Surgery and the aftermath

13:45

Follow up and survivorship after oesophagogastric cancer, with case studies

• Professor Andrew Davies, Consultant Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeon
• Orla Evans – Principal Dietitian in Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery

15:00

Tea and coffee break

15:15

High output stoma management

• Raeesa Tailor – Senior Pharmacist: Adult Clinical Nutrition, GSTT

15:45

Nutritional assessment and body composition analysis

• Dr Erin Stella Sullivan – Lecturer in Nutritional Sciences, King’s College London

16:15

Final questions, feedback and close