PENSA Newsletter January-April 2006, Vol.7 No.1 Message From Editor Dear PENSA members: Happy New Year 2006 to all PENSA members! The New Year has past as well as Chinese New Year. Hope all our members have had a good time and are ready for hard work and happiness in this year. Some of our members asked for the reason why the PENSA Committee decided to change the frequency of the congress. There are few reasons. Firstly, 2-year period will allow more accumulation of new researches and knowledge. Secondly, ASPEN has changed the frequency to every alternated year for the same reason. Thus, the attendants and industries can plan their budget and time schedule to attend each workshop on different year. However, the next work shop will be in 2007 which is the same year as ASPEN Congress. In order to make the proper time schedule, the workshops are planned to be held in 2007, 2009, 2010 then every even year. The articles in this newsletter are "Nutrition support team in ICU" by Cheungsoo Shin, "Serum iron, vitamin B1, B12 levels after radical gastrectomy" by Gil Ho Kang and his team. All these papers are retrieved from the program book of the 11th PENSA Congress in Seoul, Korea.