We held 15 country-led workshops aimed to exchange on barriers and opportunities to join forces in optimizing nutritional care in cancer.
All the key members of multidisciplinary team that are taking care of patient with cancer, oncologists, surgeons, radiotherapy specialists, dietitians & nutrition specialists, nurses and many others discussed together the future of local initiatives, aligning on the final goal & timelines and defining concrete next steps.
Prof. Muscaritoli received his Medical Degree in 1982 and completed his residency in Internal Medicine and Nephrology subsequently. He worked as a research fellow in Dr. Michael Meguid’s laboratory at Department of Surgery, SUNY Health Science Center, Syracuse, NY. Thereafter, he joined the University “La Sapienza” first as an assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, then as an associate professor in 2001.
At Sapienza University in Roma, Prof. Muscaritoli is full professor of internal medicine, Vice-Director of the Department of Translational and Precision Medicine, Director of Internal Medicine and Clinical Nutrition Unit and Director of the Residency School in Internal Medicine.
Prof. Muscaritoli has several active roles in the European Society of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN), including currently acting as Chairman of the Special Interest Group on Cachexia-anorexia in Chronic Diseases. He is Chairman of the Italian Society of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (SINuC), and Past-Chairman Italian Society of Artificial Nutrition (SINPE). In addition, Prof. Muscaritoli is Chief Section Editor of Frontiers in NutritionClinical Nutrition, and Associate Editor of Internal and Emergency Medicine, Clinical Nutrition and Nutrition and Metabolism journals.
Dr. Carla Prado is a Professor and Registered Dietitian at the University of Alberta, and a Campus Alberta Innovates (CAIP) Chair in Nutrition, Food and Health. She is the Director of the Human Nutrition Research Unit, one of the top research and training facilities for body composition and energy metabolism assessments worldwide.
Carla is an expert in assessing nutritional status through the precise measurement of body composition and energy metabolism. The focus of her current research program is to investigate the prevalence and health outcomes of abnormal body composition phenotypes in patients with diverse chronic conditions. She is also developing targeted nutrition interventions to optimize body composition, particularly muscle mass in these patients. She is currently leading six randomized controlled trials and a number of other clinical studies investigating the impact of nutrition intervention on energy metabolism, body composition and health.
Jozsef Lovey graduated from Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary in 1993. He began to work at the National Institute of Oncology Comprehensive Cancer centre the same year, where he obtained specialisation in radiation oncology in 1997 and in medical oncology in 2000. Received his PhD degree in 2005. He worked in different clinical positions at the institute from intern to department head. In addition, he was the director of international relations and later the medical director of the cancer centre between 2013 and 2024. He was parallelly associate professor at the Semmelweis University of Medicine since 2012. From May 2024 he works at the Oslo University Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Centre (Radiumhospital) in Norway as senior consultant in oncology.
He is involved in the quality accreditation of European cancer centres at the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes (OECI). He served nine years on the executive board of OECI and currently is the chair of the Accreditation Committee.
As concerns nutrition therapy, his activity extended mainly to organisation, quality management and education / training activities nationally and internationally.
Dr. Vilma Pacheco Barcia obtained her degree in Medicine from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (2013). She is a consultant Medical Oncologist after completing her residency at the Hospital Universitario La Princesa (2019) and Assistant Professor at Francisco de Vitoria University. She has completed two international observership programs to expand her training at McGill University Health Center and Perlmutter Cancer Center - NYU Langone Health focused on translational research and pancreatic cancer. She received the FSEOM-Merck "Somos Futuro" Award for career path during residency (2020).
Vilma Pacheco holds a PhD in Medicine from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid for the project entitled "Systemic Inflammatory Response Index: Prognostic Factor in pancreatic cancer" (2021) and Master's degree in Molecular Oncology by CEB (2021). Professor of the chapter on Nutrition in the Oncology Patient of the Master's Degree in Nutrition, Obesity and Microbiota of UDIMA (2023-2024). She has been awarded three competitive research grants for her work in oncology (2022, 2024 and 2025).
Her research is focused since 2018 on the study of the prognostic relevance of systemic inflammation in pancreatic cancer patients and cancer-related malnutrition. She is the principal and lead investigator of the PANTHEIA-Spanish Society of Medical Oncology Research group, a multicenter and multidisciplinary study group, focused on the prognostic and predictive factors of response in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer and with a particular focus on how nutritional factors and cachexia impact outcomes throughout the disease.
Susana Couto Irving is a nutritionist (clinician/scientist) interested in optimizing dietary/nutritional interventions within the advent of precision therapies in oncology. After 15 years working in the UK, currently, she is working at the Portuguese Institute of Oncology in Porto (Portugal), as an attending specialist in clinical nutrition. Susana also collaborates with several interdisciplinary projects, mainly focusing in accelerating biomedical science translation from the bench-to-bedside (and then on to the patients' meals!). She is particularly interested in the clinical application of cancer metabolism and in patient reported- outcomes. Susana's academic background is in Nutritional Sciences (FCNA, University of Porto, Portugal) with a post-graduation in Clinical Nutrition (University of Surrey/Roehampton, UK) and a MSc. in Cancer Therapeutics (Queen Mary-University of London, UK). Susana has always been a keen and active advocate for science outreach and communication, engaging with several scientific societies and being a founding member of the Portuguese Society of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism. Since 2021 she is also an EFAD- ESDN Oncology committee member and is now the Lead for Oncology.
Marieke Schooneman works as an internist-oncologist at the Dijklander Hospital in the Netherlands. She was trained as an oncologist at the Amsterdam University Medical Center and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, and formerly worked as an oncologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute. She has a PhD in metabolism and acquired metabolic and nutritional expertise which she later combined with the field of oncology. Her experience in this important niche comprises of education and training of oncology dieticians, frequent lectures in onconutrition conferences and involvement in nutritional research in oncology. Most of all, she is a passionate advocate of the importance of nutrition in oncology in the Netherlands.
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