Dr. Marianna Sioson is the Section Head of Medical Nutrition, Department of Medicine, The Medical City Hospital in Manila. She is a member of the nutrition support teams in various hospitals in her country. She is a family physician specializing in medical nutrition. She completed her 2-year fellowship in Nutrition Support in Manila and did observership both in South Carolina, USA, and in Brussels, Belgium.
Dr. Nina is one of the frontrunners of ERAS in Asia. She was instrumental in establishing The Medical City Hospital as one of 2 ERAS Centers of Excellence in Asia. Aside from her position as nutrition champion for ERAS in her hospital, she is also currently Vice President of ERAS Philippines. She has also been active in developing guidelines and strategies for implementing ERAS in LMICs.
Dr. Nina is faculty at The Medical City’s Medical Nutrition Fellowship, its Department of Family and Community Medicine, and the Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health.
She is a past president of the Philippine Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition or PhilSPEN, and currently sits on the Philippine College of Medical Nutrition Physicians board.