Dear friends of CROSS,
today we present you another one in a series of interesting lectures from this year's CROSS, and this time the lecturer is Professor Darija Vranešić Bender, BSc, PhD.
She will hold a lecture on "Irritable bowel syndrome and microbiota: a special focus on diet". The exact cause of IBS is not known, but it is assumed that inflammation and infection, stress, and disruption of the balance of neurotransmitters and microbiota contribute to the development of the syndrome. Regardless of the true factors that cause irritable bowel syndrome, changes in eating habits can have a significant impact on pain and discomfort in people suffering from this disease.
Prof. Darija Vranešić Bender, BSc, PhD is a clinical nutritionist at the University Hospital Zagreb, Unit of Clinical Nutrition and works as a member of hospital nutrition support team. Her special interest is diet therapy in gastrointestinal diseases. She is the president of Croatian Society of Nutritionists and Dietitians, vice-president of Croatian Society of Clinical Nutrition Croatian Medical Association and member ECPC committee of European Society of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN). She obtained bachelors degree in biotechnology in year 2000, PhD in field of nutrition in 2005, and Associate Professor status in 2018 at the Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology. She teaches diet therapy, nutrition and clinical nutrition at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology and Zagreb School of Medicine (regular and study in English language). She participated at several national and international research projects and published number of scientific and professional papers as well as guidelines, textbooks and popular books on nutrition, clinical nutrition and diet therapy.
Join us at this year's congress in April and learn more about nutrition, gastrointestinal issues and other current topics that we will be presenting!
Your CROSS team