Kelly Tappenden

About

Kelly A. Tappenden, PhD, RD, serves as dean of the College of Health at the University of Utah, a role she began in July 2023. She is an accomplished leader, educator, and scientist with national and international expertise in nutrition, intestinal health, education, and academic leadership. Her work focuses on intestinal failure, mechanisms of intestinal adaptation, and patient malnutrition. Tappenden has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and has delivered numerous invited lectures. Her commitment to education has been recognized with awards such as the American Society for Nutrition Excellence in Nutrition Education Award and the American Gastroenterological Association Research Mentor Award. In 2024, she was named the Jonathan E. Rhoads Lecturer by the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, the organization's highest research honor, for her major international contributions to the field of nutrition and metabolic support. Prior to her current role, she served at the University of Illinois Chicago as a professor and head of the Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition, as well as interim head of the Department of Occupational Therapy. She is a past president of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition and was its inaugural fellow in 2012. Tappenden received her PhD in nutrition and metabolism from the University of Alberta and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She also…

Research topics

• Medicine
• Internal medicine
• Physical therapy
• Multimedia
• Nursing
• Family medicine
• Medical education
• Pediatrics
• Pathology

Selected publications

• The GLIM consensus approach to diagnosis of malnutrition: A 5-year update

  Clinical Nutrition · 2025-04-07 · 43 citations

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  BACKGROUND: The Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) introduced an approach for malnutrition diagnosis in 2019 comprised of screening followed by assessment of three phenotypic criteria: weight loss, low BMI, and low muscle mass, and two etiologic criteria: reduced food intake/assimilation, and inflammation/disease burden. This planned update reconsiders the GLIM framework based on published knowledge and experience over the past five years. METHODS: A GLIM working group (n = 43 m…

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• GLIM consensus approach to diagnosis of malnutrition: A 5‐year update

  Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition · 2025-04-14 · 33 citations

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  BACKGROUND: The Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) introduced an approach for malnutrition diagnosis in 2019 that comprised screening followed by assessment of three phenotypic criteria (weight loss, low body mass index [BMI], and low muscle mass) and two etiologic criteria (reduced food intake/assimilation and inflammation/disease burden). This planned update reconsiders the GLIM framework based on published knowledge and experience over the past 5 years. METHODS: A working gro…

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• Impact of a specialized oral nutritional supplement on quality of life in older adults following hospitalization: Post-hoc analysis of the NOURISH trial

  Clinical Nutrition · 2023-09-09 · 17 citations

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  BACKGROUND & AIMS: Both during and after hospitalization, nutritional care with daily intake of oral nutritional supplements (ONS) improves health outcomes and decreases risk of mortality in malnourished older adults. In a post-hoc analysis of data from hospitalized older adults with malnutrition risk, we sought to determine whether consuming a specialized ONS (S-ONS) containing high protein and beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate (HMB) can also improve Quality of Life (QoL). METHODS: We analyzed d…

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• Lipids in parenteral nutrition – expert consensus statements: Translating guidelines into clinical practice

  Clinical Nutrition Open Science · 2025-01-21 · 7 citations

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  <h2>Summary</h2> Lipids are integral to parenteral nutrition (PN) in all settings where PN is required, serving as a source of energy and essential fatty acids. In addition, lipids modulate a variety of biological functions, including inflammatory and immune responses. Moreover, fish oil (FO), which contains omega-3 fatty acids, has become an important component of modern lipid emulsions. The Lipids in PN Summit involved a panel of international experts with extensive clinical experience in PN u…

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• Macronutrient Digestion, Absorption, and Metabolism

  2024-05-28 · 2 citations

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Recent grants

• NIH Grant R01DK057682

  NIH · $1.1M · 2008

• A.S.P.E.N. Clinical Nutrition Research Workshop

  NIH · $236k · 2003–2013

Frequent coauthors

• Marion F. Winkler

  Brown University

  80 shared

• Donald F. Kirby

  70 shared

• Douglas L. Seidner

  69 shared

• Michelle Spangenburg

  American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

  69 shared

• Marjorie Nisenholtz

  Mount Sinai Hospital

  68 shared

• John Dibaise

  Mayo Clinic in Arizona

  65 shared

• David Gutierrez

  Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

  65 shared

• Kishore R. Iyer

  65 shared

Awards & honors

• American Society for Nutrition Excellence in Nutrition Educa…
• American Gastroenterological Association Research Mentor Awa…
• Jonathan E. Rhoads Lecturer by the American Society for Pare…
• Inaugural Fellow of the American Society for Parenteral and…

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