Sunday, April 28, 2019
6:00AM-8:00AM
Hyatt Regency Inner Harbor
Constellation EF
300 Light Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

Registration not required

Rationale
As human milk science continues to reveal the nutritional needs of infants, evidence-based research is expanding our understanding of nutrition’s impact on physiological development.  Targeted nutrition in infants is a rapidly evolving area of practical and clinical interest.

Description
Breast milk contains an abundance of biologically active proteins and other nutrients that provide significant benefits to newborn and developing infants. For these infants, benefits include cognitive neurodevelopment, digestion and uptake of micro- and macro-nutrients, antimicrobial activity, development of the immune system, stimulation of gut microflora, and overall growth and development. While mother’s milk is the gold standard of nutrition for newborns, LBW and VLBW infants have nutritional requirements that exceed the nutrition provided in human milk, and infants who are not 100% breastfed also likely have a nutritional gap.

An abundance of research is trying to close these gaps. Of particular interest to PAS attendees will be research into nutrition’s role in physiological development and the timing of nutrients according to the needs of the infant. 

In this program, Michael K. Georgieff, MD, and Camilia R. Martin, MD, will discuss specific nutritional components of breast milk and their impact on a developing physiology; assess our current ability to determine, target, and adjust nutrition based on the needs of the infant;  and discuss ways future research and technology may help clinicians quantitatively assess the adequacy of a nutritional plan that supports physiological development.

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  Michael K. Georgieff, MD

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  Michael K. Georgieff, MD, is the Martin Lenz Harrison Land Grant Chair in Pediatrics and a Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Developmental psychology at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis. He is Director of the Center for Neurobehavioral Development at the University of Minnesota.

  Dr. Georgieff received his medical degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and completed his internship and residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He was awarded fellowships in neonatology by Children’s Hospital and the University of Minnesota Medical School.

  The focus of Dr. Georgieff’s research is on fetal-neonatal nutrition and brain development, specifically the effect of early life iron nutrition and neurocognitive function. For the past 25 years, his research has been continuously funded in this field by the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Georgieff’s clinical interests include iron and infant development, and maternal-fetal medicine.

  Dr. Georgieff is the recipient of numerous honors and awards for research, teaching, and public service including the Samuel J. Fomon Nutrition Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics. He is an advisor on nutrition and early childhood development to the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Institutes of Health, and UNICEF, and he is a frequently invited speaker at national and international conferences. Dr. Georgieff has published more than 250 scientific articles, and he is a reviewer for a number of prestigious medical journals including Pediatrics, the Journal of Pediatrics, and the New England Journal of Medicine.

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  Michael K. Georgieff, MD

  Martin Lenz Harrison Land Grant Chair
  Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Developmental Psychology
  Executive Vice Chair of the Department of Pediatrics
  Director of the Center for Neurobehavioral Development
  University of Minnesota
  Minneapolis, Minnesota

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  Camilia R. Martin, MD, MS

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  Camilia R. Martin, MD, MS, is an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and associate director of the NICU at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. She received her medical degree from Cornell University Medical College and completed an internship and residency in pediatrics at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. She was awarded a fellowship in perinatal-neonatal medicine at Boston Children's Hospital and earned a masters degree in epidemiology from Harvard University School of Public Health.

  Dr. Martin is an internationally recognized expert in neonatal nutrition. Her research focuses on the impact of nutrition on health and disease in premature infants, and its effect on short-term morbidities and long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes. Dr. Martin's state-of-the-art translational research allows for the rapid assessment of potential therapies that can be brought from the bench to the bedside.

  Dr. Martin's academic responsibilities involve teaching residents, clinical and research fellows. She has authored or edited several textbooks and is an ad hoc reviewer for more than a dozen prestigious medical journals. Dr. Martin is a frequently invited speaker at both national and international events, and her peer-reviewed and other educational material has been published extensively in print and other media.

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  Camilia R. Martin, MD, MS

  Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
  Associate Director, NICU, Department of Neonatology
  Director for Cross-Disciplinary Research Partnerships
  Division of Translational Research
  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  Boston, Massachusetts