PENSA Newsletter May-August 2003, Vol.4 No.2 Message From Editor Dear PENSA members: Our Asian countries have just recovered from the epidemic of SARS. We are lucky that all the problems have resolved rapidly with the cooperation between our countries. Now we can look forward for the 9th Congress of PENSA at Goa, India. The organizing committee of this congress selected Goa to be the venue of the meeting because this city has been very famous for a long time with its trinity of sun, sand and sea. Thus, by getting there you might be able to gain a lot of recent knowledge as well as enjoy traveling along the beach and experience the flavour packed cuisine. Those who are interesting in attending the congress can contact the organizing committee: Dr. Shivakumar Iyer, Neuro-ICU, Jehangir Hospital and Medical Centre, 32 Sassoon Road, Pune-411001. India. Email: pensa2003@indiatimes.com, ispenpune@vsnl.net Tel: + 91-20-6050550/6122551 Fax: + 91-20-6050866 or visit website: www.ispen.org/pensa/index.htm In this news letter, we present 2 more interesting abstracts from the 8th Congress of PENSA in Kochi, Japan. One topics about nutrition support team is Nutrition team by Professor Simon Allison from United Kingdom. The other topics is "Postoperative early enteral nutrition vs total parenteral nutrition in patients undergoing gastrectomy by Doctor Fumie Ikezawa and Doctor Takashi Tsuchiya from Japan. We hope that these topics will be useful for you. Looking forward to see you all in Goa, India in November, 2003.