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Session Type: Clubs in Convention Center

Neonatal Feeding Club: Examining the Cross-Section of Infant Feeding and Nutrition and Subsequent Neurodevelopment

Monday, May 6, 2024
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM ET
Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre: 204
CE: Live CME: 1.5

Disclosure(s):
Steven M. Barlow, MS, PhD: Innara Health (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Ownership Interest including individual stocks, stock options, excluding diversified mutual funds)
Emily Zimmerman, PhD., CCC-SLP: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Session

Description: Our three speakers will address the tracking of sucking and feeding outcomes across preterm and full-term infants from the newborn period to early childhood, with a focus on their associations with neurodevelopment. Dr. Steven Barlow, Co-Chair of the Neonatal Feeding Club, will introduce the session and highlight biomechanical and oral feeding data collected from his laboratory across clinical trial studies. Dr. Emily Zimmerman, Club Co-Chair, will present data on the associations between infant sucking and neurodevelopment. Dr. Samudragupta Bora, Invited Speaker, will discuss associations between neonatal feeding, early nutrition, and short- and long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes in children born preterm across both high-income and low- and middle-income countries. Three themes will be highlighted: 1) the current state of evidence on early nutritional influences on neurodevelopment; 2) neonatal feeding and early nutrition as a critical early intervention pathway to optimize neurodevelopment; 3) challenges to optimizing early nutrition in low- and middle-income countries, which have the highest burden of preterm births worldwide, and identify priorities through a health equity lens to improve neurodevelopmental outcomes. There will be a question-and-answer session following the presentations.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe the conceptual framework underlying neonatal feeding, early nutrition, and neurodevelopment in infants born preterm. outcomes.
  • Determine the current state of evidence on neonatal nutritional interventions and their associations with neurodevelopmental outcomes.
  • Recognize the challenges that low- and middle-income countries face in optimizing neonatal nutrition and feeding.

Presentations:

  • 11:30 AM – 11:40 AM ET
    Predictive Markers for Oral Feeding in Extremely Preterm Infants

    Speaker: Steven M. Barlow, MS, PhD – University of Nebraska

  • 11:40 AM – 11:50 AM ET
    An Examination of Infant Sucking and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes

    Speaker: Emily Zimmerman, PhD., CCC-SLP (she/her/hers) – Northeastern University

  • 11:50 AM – 12:00 PM ET
    Early Nutrition and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of Infants Born Preterm: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go

    Speaker: Samudragupta Bora, PhD – UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital