Humans of HEN: Exploring Daily Life For Tubies

Webinar for Feeding Tube Awareness Week 2025

Presented by Surgical House with Tube Dietitian

Date: Thursday 6th February 2025

Time: 1pm AEDT/ 10am WST

Location: Online (link provided 48 hours prior to event via email)

In recognition of Feeding Tube Awareness Week 2025, Surgical House invites you to an insightful webinar: "Humans of HEN: Exploring Daily Life For Tubies."

This session will delve into the lived experiences of individuals who are tube-fed. Join us as we share explore the challenges and successes faced by those living with feeding tubes.

What you’ll gain:

A deeper understanding of the daily realities of being a Tubie.
Insights into how tube feeding supports independence and quality of life.
Tips for navigating the HEN journey.

Panel discussion hosted by Lina Breik, Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian and Tubie specialist, with Tubies Juliette McAleer and Katy Fishlock. Be part of this important conversation designed to foster connection, education, and awareness.

Be part of this important conversation designed to foster connection, education, and awareness.

INTENDED AUDIENCE

This webinar will of interest to teenagers and older who are Tubies, parents, carers, relatives and friends helping support a Tubie! Dietitians and other allied health providers may also find this an interesting webinar to join.

PRESENTER INFORMATION

Lina Breik - Founder of Tube Dietitian and an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian with 15 years of clinical nutrition hospital experience in tube feeding. Lina has a particular passion for helping those with a disability and a feeding tube to nourish their bodies to optimise their wellbeing and independence. She is currently doing a PhD at Monash University on home feeding tube and serves on the Board of Directors at Dietitians Australia.

Juliette McAleer - Tube-fed mum, triathlete, and PhD candidate researching the psychosocial impact of navigating tube-fed life in a food-centric world. A firm believer in the power of story-telling, Juliette draws upon her lived-experience of parenteral and enteral tube-feeding to foster greater community awareness of home tube-feeding and to challenge societal and systemic barriers that can needlessly complicate tube-fuelled lives. She emphasises that tube-feeding is just one method of nourishment - one that neither defines, nor inherently limits our incredible human potential.

Katy Fishlock - Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics (Honours) student at UOW due to graduate April 2025. After becoming unwell late 2023, Katy has lived experience living with tube feeding, requiring an NJ tube for 12 months before she transitioned to a surgical jejunostomy tube in November 2024. Katy is also keen to foster greater community awareness of tube-feeding within her student and dietitian networks.

Win a copy of Lina's book - drawn from attendees online at end of seminar!

THE WEBINAR