Recording from Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy (PERT) Q&A
8th November 2022, 11.00 - 11.45am , Virtual via Zoom
We know there’s a lot of questions around PERT so we created a Q&A to solely ask your questions to a panel of experts. Questions were entered at registration and our panel covered questions around screening and monitoring, dosing, PERT and feeding, PERT and pancreatic surgery and complications and challenges.
This Q&A is suitable for all healthcare professionals treating and supporting people with pancreatic cancer, no matter your level or role.
Our panel
Anna Burton, Senior Specialist Pancreatic Dietitian, St James’s Hospital, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Anna has 25 years experience in clinical dietetics including parenteral nutrition, Newcastle University Medical School nutrition education, critical care, gastroenterology, immunology, paediatrics and burns; initially within the dietetic service provided by Newcastle Nutrition.
In 2000 Anna joined the dietetic department at St James’s Hospital, Leeds specialising in gastrointestinal surgery and parenteral nutrition. Pancreatic surgical dietetics won Anna’s heart and she has jointly led the very busy pancreatic dietetic service since 2007 in Leeds.
Karen Robinson, Advanced Practitioner – Dietitian, HPB, BHSCT
Karen has worked at BHSCT covering a range of specialities since graduating from the University of Ulster, Coleraine with a first class Honours degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics in 2002.
Since 2012 Karen has worked in the regional hepato-biliary unit and post-covid is based in Belfast City Hospital.
Lauren Roberts, HPB/UGI Lead Oncology Dietitian, The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre
Lauren works at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, Liverpool as an Oncology Dietitian. She has worked in oncology for seven years and has specialised in cancers of the pancreas, liver, biliary system and upper gastrointestinal tract for the last six years.
Lauren is passionate about working with people with pancreatic cancer and empowering patients and caregivers to manage PERT effectively, promoting well-being and quality of life
Mary Phillips, Senior Specialist HPB Dietitian, Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Mary graduated from the University of Surrey in 2000, and for the last 18 years has been working with the pancreatic surgical team at the Royal Surrey in Guildford. Her main clinical and research interest is in the management of pancreatic exocrine insufficiency and she is currently undertaking her PhD in the long-term consequences of pancreatic resection.
Useful resources mentioned
- Consensus for management of PEI: UK practical guidelines (2021, BMJ Open Gastroenterology)
- Guidelines for investigation of chronic diarrhoea in adults (2018, British Society of Gastroenterology)
- Human PEI response to nutrients in health and disease (2005, J Keller and P Layer)
- NICE Guidelines – Quality statement (2018)
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If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us at hpnetwork@pancreaticcancer.org.uk