Dr Sarah Durnan (RD) - Honorary Associate Professor, CYP-HR, University of Nottingham and Clinical Lead Dietitian, Children’s Home Enteral Tube Feeding (HETF) at Nottingham University Hospital.

Sarah has worked with tube-fed children and young people and their families for twelve years as a dietitian at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. In clinical practice she saw firsthand the benefits blended diet can have on physical symptoms such as reflux, retching and vomiting. In 2014, Sarah undertook a three month travelling scholarship to the USA to learn how dietitians there support their patients, she was lucky to be invited to stay with several families who use blended diet giving her unique insight into the day to day practicalities. Her doctoral research explored individual parents’ experiences of choosing a blended diet for their tube fed child. Her work found that parents perceive there to be social and emotional as well as physical benefits to blended diet and gave rich understanding of the challenges faced by families such as engaging health care teams. Subsequently, Dr Durnan was invited to co-lead the review of the British Dietetic Association’s (BDA) Position Statement (2019) and Practice Toolkit (2021) on the use of blended diet with enteral feeding tubes. Dr Durnan is an expert on the topic and has been invited to present her work at international conferences such as European Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ESPEN) and European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN). Dr Durnan continues to research blended diet as Honorary Assistant Professor at the Centre for Children and Young People's Health Research (CYP-HR) at the University of Nottingham.

Dr Iyesha Nadim is a physician who qualified in 2004 with an MB BS from Imperial College, London, and an MA (Hons) Physiological Sciences from the University of Oxford in 2001. She completed her MRCGP in 2009 in East London, and currently works as a General Practitioner, in a large inner-city practice in Manchester. She has also held posts as a Forensic Physician and a Clinical Trials Physician.

She has recently completed an MSc in Genomic Medicine from the University of Manchester and has an interest in Pharmacogenetics and Rare Diseases.

Her work and research interests have provided considerable experience with adults and children with disabilities, including many patients requiring enteral and parenteral feeding, and is aware of the multiple challenges that families and carers face.

She understands the importance of good nutrition and gut health and their wide-ranging benefits to physical and mental wellbeing and is passionate about supporting people with disabilities or illness to access optimal interventions for their health.

She is a strong advocate for Wilbo’s blended whole food products, which deliver organic, natural and gut friendly nourishment, and provide an alternative or adjunct to artificial formula feeds.

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Nathan is an experienced Public Relations and Communications professional with a track record of generating high-profile and localised comms across national, regional, and international media platforms.

Nathan has experience working in Parliament, for the Local Government Association and the Nursing & Midwifery Council, and he is currently an Media Manager at Counter Terrorism Policing. Throughout his career, he has delivered high profile campaigns across a range of policy areas such as health, welfare, development, education, improvement and innovation, and national security.

His experience caring for his mother-in-law during her terminal illness made him aware of the lack of alternatives to artificial formula feeds. He is a strong advocate of Wilbo’s Blends and the broader mission to raise awareness of conditions that require blended diets and the need to provide varied and genuinely nutritious food for people living with these conditions.