2023 Robert Suskind and Leslie Lewinter-Suskind Pediatric Nutrition Lifetime Achievement Award Lecture - Infant Nutrition: Challenges and Opportunities

The Robert Suskind and Leslie Lewinter-Suskind Pediatric Nutrition Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to a clinician or investigator who has made a significant lifetime contribution to the field of pediatric nutrition, particularly to the role of childhood nutrition in health and disease. The recipient’s impact will have been global, resulting in scientifically verified improvements in children’s health and/or innovative successful treatments for conditions such as childhood malnutrition or obesity. This award is endowed by Robert Suskind and his wife, Leslie Lewinter-Suskind.

Originally presented at NUTRITION 2023, ASN's flagship meeting which was held July 22-25, 2023 in Boston, MA.

 

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Speakers

Steven Abrams, MD (Award Lecturer)
Professor of Pediatrics, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin

Robert Suskind, MD
Dean Emeritus, California University of Science and Medicine

 

Learning Objectives

  • Explain challenges related to bone health in preterm infants
  • Describe benefits and challenges of human milk fortification for preterm infants
  • Describe potential tactics for preventing infant formula shortages in the future
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 0.75 Attendance

    Learners are eligible to download a Certificate of Attendance upon activity completion. A Certificate of Attendance confirms the learner has completed the activity and does not confer any continuing education credit to the learner from ASN.

Course opens: 
09/18/2023
Course expires: 
09/30/2025
Cost:
$15.00
Rating: 
0

This activity includes the following presentations:

Introduction to the 2023 Robert Suskind and Leslie Lewinter-Suskind Pediatric Nutrition Lifetime Achievement Award

Robert Suskind, MD
Dean Emeritus, California University of Science and Medicine

Infant Nutrition: Challenges and Opportunities

Steven Abrams, MD (Award Lecturer)
Professor of Pediatrics, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin

Q&A with Dr. Abrams
Introduction to the 2023 Robert Suskind and Leslie Lewinter-Suskind Pediatric Nutrition Student Awards
Meeting Minimum Dietary Diversity at Nine Months Is Associated With Lower Risk of Stunting in the Second Year of Life Among a Cohort of Infants in Kenya

Saralyn Foster, MS, RDN, LD 
Doctoral Candidate, The University of Texas at Austin

Questions with Saralyn Foster
Human Milk Oligosaccharides (HMOs) Shifted Gut Microbe Abundance and Their Metabolic Landscape in a Defined Infant Gut Community In Vitro

Shiqi Zhang, BS
Graduate Research Fellow,  The Ohio State University

Questions with Shiqi Zhang

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Speakers

Steven Abrams, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin
Disclosures: Abbott Nutrition Health Institute: Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Terminated, January 1, 2022) 
All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.   

Robert Suskind, MD, Dean Emeritus, California University of Science and Medicine
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Planners

The following individuals served on the NUTRITION 2023 Scientific Program Committee. The session titled '2023 Robert Suskind and Leslie Lewinter-Suskind Pediatric Nutrition Lifetime Achievement Award Lecture - Infant Nutrition: Challenges and Opportunities' was included in the scientific program of NUTRITION 2023, ASN's flagship meeting which was held from July 22-25, 2023.

Paola Baratto, MS, Rutgers University 
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose. 

Nicolaas Deutz, MD, PhD, Texas A&M University 
Disclsoures: Abbott: Speaker Fees 
All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.   

Bradley Ferguson, PhD, University of Nevada, Reno 
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose. 

Martha Field, PhD, Cornell University 
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose. 

Daniel Hoffman, PhD, Rutgers University 
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose. 

Hannah Holscher, PhD, RD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
Disclosures: Almond Board of California; Grant/Research Support; Beneo: Speaker/Speaker's Bureau; Bio-Cat: Grant/Research Support; General Mills Inc.: Grant/Research Support; Hass Avocado Board: Grant/Research Support; ISAPP: Speaker/Speaker's Bureau; National Dairy Council: Speaker/Speaker's Bureau; National Honey Board:Grant/Research Support; Tate & Lyle: Grant/Research Support 
All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.   

Frank Hu, MD, MPH, PhD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose. 

Zhaoping Li, MD, PhD, UCLA 
Nutrient Institute (Scientific Advisory Board Member) 
All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.   

Laura Murray-Kolb, PhD, Purdue University 
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose. 

Kathryn Porter Starr, PhD, RD, Duke University School of Medicine and Durham VA Medical Center 
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose. 

Lewis Rubin, MD, Georgetown University Medical Center 
Disclosures: Abbott Nutrition: Grant/Research Support 
All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.   

Anna Thalacker-Mercer, PhD, The University of Alabama at Birmingham 
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose. 

Staff

Michelle Crispino, CAE, DES, American Society for Nutrition
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Gwen Twillman, American Society for Nutrition
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose. 

Continuing education credit is not available for this activity. A Certificate of Attendance can be downloaded by learners who complete the course.

Available Credit

  • 0.75 Attendance

    Learners are eligible to download a Certificate of Attendance upon activity completion. A Certificate of Attendance confirms the learner has completed the activity and does not confer any continuing education credit to the learner from ASN.

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