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PENSA
REGULATION
Article
1 Name
The organization was founded
in 1995 in Chiang Rai, Thailand, shall be named
Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Society of
Asia. The initials PENSA may also refer it to.
Article
2 Goals
The goals of the Society are:
2.1 To educate and share information, thereby
raising the awareness of physicians, nurses, dietitians
and pharmacists and others, about the importance
of parenteral and enteral nutrition support and
the role of interdisciplinary nutrition support
teams.
2.2 To promote research and the transfer of information
from research to the practicing clinician, in
the field of parenteral and enteral nutrition.
2.3 To increase public awareness of the need
for nutrition from support in Asia.
2.4 To promote contact with national regional
organizations with similar objectives and provide
an international forum to exchange clinical nutrition
experiences and scientific data.
Article 3 Structure
3.1
The Society Center (PENSA
Center) shall be in Thailand at
the Research Center for Nutritional Support:
4th Floor, Department
of Nutrition Building
Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital
Bangkok-Noi, Bangkok, 10700 Thailand
Tel (66-2) 419-7740-1, Fax (66-2) 4129841
E-mail :
secretary@pensa.org or
sicct@mahidol.ac.th
Web: http://www.pensa.org
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The permanent PENSA Center
will be the center for communication between
council and will operate the web site for
communication with members and other organizations.
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The permanent PENSA Center
will be where all material matter is displayed
or stored.
3.2 The Society comprises;
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Membership (See Article 4
Membership)
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The Council (See section 3.3)
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The Executive Committee (See
section 3.4)
3.3 The Council
The Council consists of members
of the Executive Committee (See Section 3.4)
3.3.1 one representative of each member
National/Regional Society.
3.3.2 one councilor representing each
of the fields of medicine, nursing, pharmacy
and dietetics. Each national / regional
member will nominate the name with his or her
CV. of the candidate of each field to the Executive
Committee for selection and appointment.
The Council shall be appointed
by the Executive Committee from the nominations
received from the National / Regional Societies.
The Council shall be appointed at the General
Meeting of the Society during the Congress.
3.4 The Executive Committee
The Executive Committee
consists of the President, Immediate Past
President-elect, Treasurer, ex-officio Secretary
and Executive Director.
Under normal circumstances,
the President should be elected from
members of the National / Regional proposed
for the next Congress.
The President and
President-elect shall serve for one year
only and shall be ineligible for re-election
to the same office until one further term has
elapsed.
The President-elect
automatically becomes the next President.
The President automatically
becomes Immediate Past President.
The Executive Director
of PENSA Center shall automatically become Executive
Committee member of PENSA.
The office of Treasurer
and ex-officio Secretary may be held
for any number of one-year terms.
The Executive Committee shall
be elected annually at the General Meeting of
the Society during the Congress.
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