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April 15-16, 2019 | Milan, Italy
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PUBLIC HEALTH,
EPIDEMIOLOGY AND NUTRITION
2nd World Congress on
CELL AND GENE THERAPY
2nd International Conference on
OF EXCELLENCE
IN INTERNATIONAL
MEETINGS
YEARS
Joint Event on
Cell and Gene Therapy 2019 & Public Health Congress 2019 Archives of General Internal Medicine | ISSN: 2591-7951 | Volume 3
MALNUTRITION IN HOSPITALIZED
PATIENTS BETWEEN LITERATURE AND
CURRENT CHALLENGES
Malnutrition has become an alarming issue in the public health agen-
daworldwide. According toWHO, 1.9billion adults are overweight or
obese, while 462 million are underweight. On the other hand, 52 million
children under five years of age are linked to under nutrition. Malnutri-
tion is a direct precursor of poor health status, high healthcare expenses
and high length of stay at hospital in addition to being a direct cause for
morbidity and mortality. This lecture will focus on malnutrition in terms
of under nutrition, wasting and cachexia in hospitalized patients from
screening and assessment to management. Author will be highlighting
current literature and daily challenges in Lebanese Hospital sector.
Yasmine Fakhry, Arch Gen Intern Med 2019, Volume 3
DOI: 10.4066/2591-7951-C2-026
Yasmine Fakhry holds a BSC in Nutrition and Di-
etetics fromAmerican University of Beirut in 2008
and an MBA from Lebanese American University
in 2012. She is currently the Head of Dietetics
and Foodservice and HACCP team leader at Raee
Hospital. She is also the coordinator of the dietet-
ics internship program there and is a member
of the following committees: Infection control,
occupational health and safety and continuous
education. She has more than nine years of ex-
tensive experience in both clinical and therapeu-
tic nutrition as well as in food safety. Her interests
are hospital policy and planning, healthcare mar-
keting as well as malnutrition management. She
is also a part time university instructor in public
health courses. Currently, she is planning for her
PhD studies.
Yasmine Fakhry
Raee Hospital, Lebanon
BIOGRAPHY