Tube Awareness Week 2025

SURGICAL HOUSE WEBINAR


Join Us for Feeding Tube Awareness Week: Shining a Spotlight on Enteral Feeding


Feeding Tube Awareness Week is coming! This is important week to raise awareness about enteral feeding and support individuals who rely on feeding tubes for nutrition. Taking place from 2-8 February 2025, there will be a range of events taking place including a special webinar hosted by Surgical House.

What Is Feeding Tube Awareness Week?


Feeding Tube Awareness Week is an annual campaign to increase understanding of the challenges and solutions surrounding tube feeding. It celebrates the resilience and achievements of those who live with feeding tubes and their families.

For individuals requiring nutritional support due to various medical conditions, tube feeding is a lifeline—but it often comes with misconceptions and barriers. This week is dedicated to education, breaking stigma and empowering the community.

Webinar Highlights


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 will 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.

The format will be a 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.

Recommended 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.

Event Details


  • Date: Thursday, 6th February 2025
  • Time: 1 PM AEDT / 10 AM WST
  • Location: Online (link will be provided upon registration)