Critical Care Nutrition Therapy for Non-nutritionists

Mette M. Berger is a Consultant Intensivist, Adult Intensive Care Service & Burns at Centre University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV). She is head of the ICU’s clinical nutrition program, and the hospital’s burns center. Prof. Berger was also responsible for the creation of the Clinical Nutrition Unit in a large non university hospital in Sion (Hôpital du Valais) in 2014. Her research interests include clinical nutrition and micronutrient requirements in the critically ill, with a special focus on major burns. Prof. Berger’s clinical and research contributions include the concept of assessing needs and preventing excessive energy debt in acute conditions, promoting the monitoring of nutritional therapy and the use of combined enteral and parenteral feeding. To date, she has authored over 200 publications and more than 30 book chapters. She is also an internationally renowned speaker on the topics of micronutrition, clinical nutrition and burn care. Prof. Berger is an active Member of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition & Metabolism (ESPEN) working in the Intensive Care Unit (ESPEN-ICU) guidelines group and LLL teaching sessions, and a Member of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM MEN section). She is associate editor for Clinical Nutrition.