Nutrition pre-pregnancy birth and beyond - Windows of opportunity
Thursday 1 October 2009
Venue: The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G 0AE
This meeting, with well respected international speakers, will explore how we can use nutrition to influence the outcome of pregnancy and the health of both the mother and child. Topics that will be covered will include vitamin D, prenatal maternal stress, maternal celiac disease, caffeine, fish and fish oil intake, diabetes, homocysteine and folic acid, probiotics and also looking at the diet, nutrition and health behaviours of women
before and during pregnancy and the implications for their children. This meeting will be
valuable for GPs, obstetricians and gynaecologists, other medical practitioners,
midwives, nurses, nutritionists, dieticians and other healthcare professionals
Registration Details:
Fellow: £65
Associate: £45
Trainee - Fellow: £45
Student Members: £27
Non-Fellow: £140
Allied Health Professional: £45
Trainee - Non-Fellow: £85
Student: £40
Meeting ref: FH-J10-1
CPD (Applied for): 5 credits
9.15 am |
Registration, tea and coffee |
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Chair's welcome |
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| Chair: Dr Marilyn Glenville, President of the Food & Health Forum, Royal Society of Medicine | |
10.00 am |
In-utero environment and offspring future health: prenatal maternal stress and maternal celiac disease as examples |
| Dr Ali S Khashan, Anu Research Centre, Cork University Maternity Hospital, University College Cork, Ireland | |
10.30 am |
Vitamin D in pregnancy - implications for the mother and child |
| Dr Elina Hypponen, Reader in Epidemiology and Public Health, MRC Centre for the Epidemiology of Child Health, University College London Institute of Child Health, London | |
11.00 am |
Tea and coffee |
11.30 am |
Caffeine and pregnancy outcome |
| Professor Janet Cade, Professor of Nutritional Epidemiology at the University of Leeds. Head of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Obesity, Nutrition and Health | |
12.00 pm |
Fish and fish oil intake in pregnancy - short and long term consequences for health |
| Dr Sjurdur F Olsen, Adjunct Professor of Nutrition, Harvard University Maternal Nutrition Group, Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut Artillervivej 5, DK2300 Copenhagen S, DENMARK | |
12.30 pm |
Panel discussion |
1.00 pm |
Lunch |
| Chair: Mr Anthony Mander, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Highfield Hospital, BMI Healthcare, Rochdale | |
2.00 pm |
Diet in diabetes complicating pregnancy |
| Dr Bob Fraser, Centre for Pregnancy Nutrition, University of Sheffield | |
2.30 pm |
Probiotics and dietary counselling contribute to glucose regulation during and after pregnancy |
| K Laitinen, Nutrition, Allergy, Mucosal Immunology and Intestinal Microbiota Group. Department of Biochemistry and Food Chemistry, University of Turku, Finland | |
3.00 pm |
Tea and coffee |
3.30 pm |
Homocysteine and folic acid - implications for fertility, pregnancy and miscarriage |
| Dr Anne Molloy, Birth Defects and Vitamin Research Group, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin | |
4.00 pm |
The diet, nutritional and health behaviours of women before and during pregnancy - implications for their children |
| Professor Hazel Inskip, Professor of statistical epidemiology and deputy director, MRC Epidemiology Resource Centre, University of Southampton | |
4.00 pm |
Completion of evaluation forms |
4.05 pm |
Panel discussion |
5.00 pm |
Close of meeting |
