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Program Date: 17 May 2023
Program Date: 17 May 2023
Publication Date: 22 August 2023
Continuing Education Credits: Nurse Contact 1.0 CE; Dietitian 1.0 CPEU
In this course, Lars Bode, PhD, will describe maternal factors that influence the human milk oligosaccharide (HMO) profile in human milk; discuss how maternal HMO profiles impact infant gut microbiota; and review how HMOs can influence infant systems beyond the gut (immune system development and/or cognition). Originally presented live at the 2023 European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) Conference in Vienna, Austria.
Performance Indicators: 4.2.6, 8.1.2, 8.1.5
Activity Code: 181983
Professor of Pediatrics
Chair of Collaborative Human Milk Research
Director, Mother-Milk-Infant Center of Research Excellence
Director, Human Milk Institute (HMI)
San Diego, CA, USA
Dr Lars Bode is a Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Neonatology and the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, the Larsson-Rosenquist Chair of Collaborative Human Milk Research, and the founding Director of the Mother-Milk-Infant Center of Research Excellence (MOMI CORE) and the new Human Milk Institute (HMI) at the University of California, San Diego.
Currently, Dr Bode is leading a research program dedicated to research on breastfeeding and human milk in general and human milk oligosaccharides in particular. Dr Bode’s main research objectives are to elucidate (i) how milk components are synthesized in the mother’s mammary gland, (ii) how milk composition is affected by external factors such as nutrition, pathogens, or medications, (iii) how milk components affect immediate as well as long-term health and development of infants and mothers, and (iv) how they can serve as natural templates for the development of preventatives, therapeutics, and diagnostics for people of all ages. Dr Bode has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles on human milk oligosaccharides and in 2022, he ranked in the top 0.1% of most highly cited scientists in the world.
Professor of Paediatric Nutrition
UCL GOS Institute of Child Health
London, UK
Dr Atul Singhal is a Professor of Paediatric Nutrition at UCL GOS Institute of Child Health in London, UK. Dr Singhal graduated in Medicine from the Royal Free Hospital, London in 1986 and has been a consultant in paediatrics since 1998. Previously, he was the Director and Deputy Director of the Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, UCL Institute of Child Health.
His broad interests are in paediatric nutrition, but his current research focuses on the influence of early nutrition on long-term health, the effects of nutritional interventions to reduce long-term cardiovascular risk, and nutritional interventions for obesity. Additionally, on dietary intakes of children, and new technologies for dietary intake assessment.
Abbott Nutrition’s Provider Statement for Nursing CEs:
Abbott Nutrition Health Institute is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the California Board of Registered Nursing Provider #CEP 11213.
Abbott Nutrition’s Statement for Dietitian CPEUs:
This educational activity has been prior-approved by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). CDR credentialed practitioners will receive the specified continuing professional education units (CPEUs) for completion of this program/material.
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