Paediatric Symposium: Navigating nutrition in infants and children

Are you a private practice or hospital dietitian who works with infants and children? Then you won’t want to miss our Paediatric Symposium: Navigating nutrition in infants and children. Join this highly-requested event to learn about the latest updates and evidence in infant and children nutrition including:

• What’s in infant & specialty formulas and why with Dr Janet Green
• The evolving evidencing on HMOs and butyrate in the infant gut with Emeritus Professor Geoff Cleghorn
• The dynamic world of paediatric feeding therapy with Dr Brooke Harcourt
• Challenges experienced when transitioning from hospital to home tube feeding with Dr Fiona Arrowsmith

Agenda:

Dr Janet Green is a Senior Lecturer and the Coordinator for the Graduate Programs in Children’s Nursing, Neonatal Nursing and Clinical Teaching in the Faculty of Health, at the University of Technology Sydney. Janet has qualifications in Midwifery, Lactation, Neonatal intensive care, Paediatric intensive care, and Child and family health – Tresillian. Janet has many years’ experience as a neonatal nurse, and has retained strong ties to the clinical community. She continues to practice as a neonatal nurse. Janet holds Masters Degrees in Nursing Education, Bioethics and E-Learning. Her PhD explored the ethical issues surrounding caring for extremely premature babies. She is currently completing the final stages of a Doctor of Education degree, and is the Nurse Adviser to the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC).

Professor Geoff Cleghorn has over 3 decades’ experience as an active clinician within the discipline of paediatrics and paediatric gastroenterology and as such is highly placed to communicate and facilitate research collaborations across the breadth of paediatrics

Dr Brooke Harcourt is an approachable Accredited Practicing Dietitian and nutrition therapist with over a decade of experience in infant and child nutrition and metabolism conditions. She is nationally and internationally recognised for her medical research into endocrine conditions having completed research fellowships at the UQ Translational Research Institute, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute, the Royal Children’s Hospital and Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. Brooke now has a large private practice, Family Dietetics, and a specialised ‘Therapy Kitchen’, where her and the team take a practical approach to attainable nutrition through feeding therapy and food learning programs in a real kitchen therapy environment, and dietetics services at specialist paediatric centres, eating disorder services and the Victorian Department of Corrections and Youth Justice System. 

Dr Fiona Arrowsmith is a dietitian specialising in paediatrics, and has previously worked at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead for 22 years. More recently, Fiona has moved solely into private practice working with a wide variety of clients, including infants and children who are tube fed.

This symposium is supported by

US dietitians: Please note CE from CDR is unavailable for this symposium.
CPD/CEU hours are applicable for Australia and New Zealand dietitians. Check your local country requirements to see if you can claim for continuing education.

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