Preterm Nutrition- First Do No Harm

Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at 12 - 1 PM MT

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will be able to:

• Describe the potential risk of harm from dietary choices in neonatal care.
• Identify some of the methodological problems of assessing the risk of harm from dietary choices.
• List the potential adverse neonatal outcomes that result from dietary choices that influence the risk of harm.
• Identify the potential direct and indirect impact of early nutrition on adverse neurodevelopment.
• Describe the biological mechanism by which use of cow’s milk based products may have an adverse impact on outcome.
• Formulate a plan for safer practices in preterm nutrition.

Target Audience

Neonatologists, Nurses, NICU Dietitians, Pediatricians, Family Medicine Physicians, and Clinicians that are involved in the care of infants.

CE Credit

Nursing Contact hours are provided by Kendra Schreiner RN, 18160 Cottonwood Rd., PMB 352, Sunriver, OR 97707. She is an independent provider approved by the California Board of Nursing, Provider # 15828 and has approved this activity for 1 contact hour.

Alan Lucas, MD

Professor Alan Lucas Founded the Child Nutrition research Centre at the Institute of Child Health in London, where he is now Emeritus Professor of Paediatric nutrition. He also holds an Emeritus Chair at Oxford University and has an academic appointment at Cambridge University. Professor Lucas’ work on nutrition spans the period from fetal life to adolescence though he has a particular interest in the concept of “programming” (a term he coined); he initiated the first intervention trials to test the programming effects of early nutrition on long term health and development. He has over 400 publications in the field of Paediatric Nutrition and has received a number of awards for his work, including the James Spence medal awarded in recognition of life-time achievement in British Paediatrics and the Sam Fomon Award 2018 from the American Academy of Pediatrics for life-time contributions to Nutrition.