Asia-Pacific Educational Forum 2019 – Gold Coast

PROFESSOR PETER DAVIES

Group Leader – Nutrition Research Group
Child Health Research Centre

Professor Peter Davies is the Director of the Children’s Nutrition Research Centre (CNRC) in the School of Medicine at The University of Queensland.

Peter has served on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Body Composition Research, Acta Paediatrica, Annals of Human Biology and the International Journal of Obesity. Peter is also Associate Editor for the Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism.

Prior to this UQ appointment in October 2000, Peter held appointment with the Faculty of Health at Queensland University of Technology. He was also staff at the Medical Research Council’s Dunn Nutrition Unit in Cambridge, UK within the Energy Metabolism in Childhood Group prior to moving to Australia in October 1995.

He has published over 450 articles and papers in the field of nutrition, energy metabolism and growth and development in both health and disease in infants and children.

Peter has been a member of a number of expert panels and international groups related to energy expenditure and energy metabolism in children. He has also had a long-term interest specifically in infant nutrition and this area forms one of the major research interests within the Children’s Nutrition Research Centre. Much of Peter’s work has utilized novel and new isotopic tracers to investigate energy metabolism and body composition in health and disease.

Peter has also been a member of the Board of Save the Children Australia, a member of the Queensland Minister of Health Food Safety Advisory Committee, Honorary Secretary of the Nutrition Society of Australia, and a past president of Nutrition Australia. He is formerly a member of the NHMRC Dietary Guidelines Working Committee and chairs a number of advisory boards in the nutrition and pharmaceutical industries.

Source: https://child-health-research.centre.uq.edu.au

MISA MATSUYAMA

The University of Queensland | UQ · Children’s Nutrition Research Centre
Doctor of Philosophy

Misa is a dietitian and holds a PhD degree from the University of Queensland.

In her doctorate studies, Misa investigated the effect of nutrition on the intestinal microbiota development in children from the age of one to two years. Before embarking on the study in health science, Misa worked in an exporting business for more than ten years, holding a double degree in International Business and Commerce as well as a Masters of Business Administration. From a young age, Misa has always had a passion for food and nutrition. To pursue a career in nutrition, Misa made a decision to return to further education, where she developed an immense interest in children’s nutrition and its impact on health outcomes.

Source: https://child-health-research.centre.uq.edu.au

KARINA SAVAGE

DIETITIAN
Director, Smartbite Nutrition Consulting

Karina is a specialist Paediatric Dietitian and Accredited Sports Dietitian. Karina has over fifteen years of clinical paediatric experience and is the director of the Smartbite Nutrition team. She currently practices primarily in Sydney (Mosman and Randwick, NSW) seeing infants, children and adolescents and their families. Karina has worked with the Gastroenterology Department at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in researching infant colic and childhood allergy/intolerance.

As an Accredited Sports Dietitian, Karina has extensive experience in nutrition consulting for athletes in a range of sports, has previously been a national board member of Sports Dietitians Australia, and has been the Sports Dietitian for West Adelaide, SANFL. She is currently the Sports Dietitian for Tennis Australia’s Academy in NSW, having previously held this role in the SA Academy.

Her knowledge, sensitivity and practicality enable her to provide sound evidence based advice together with motivation, support and encouragement to patients and their families. Being a mum herself has enabled Karina to have that first-hand experience that helps her relate easily to the challenges of providing healthy nutrition with enjoyable family meal experiences. Before Karina moved to Sydney, she established her Smartbite practice with Paediatrics at Burnside and remains closely involved with us through her leadership of Smartbite Nutrition Consulting. Paediatric dietitians Lucilla Taggart and Rachel George work with Karina and consult for Smartbite Nutrition Consulting at Paediatrics at Burnside.

Source: https://www.paediatricsatburnside.com.au

DR. ASH HANAFY

MBBCH, FRANZCOG OBSTETRICIAN AND GYNAECOLOGIST

A/Prof Ash Hanafy was born in Cairo, Egypt and earned his Undergraduate Medical Degree from Cairo University in 1986. He has been working in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Australia for the last two decades. In 2002 he was appointed as Staff Specialist at Logan Hospital and the Clinical Sub-Dean for Griffith University. In 2007 he was appointed at the Gold Coast Hospital as a Staff Specialist and Senior Lecturer at Griffith University.

A/Prof Hanafy also has public visiting medical officer appointments at the Tweed Public Hospital and he currently has two operating lists per month.

A/Prof Hanafy has a long held interest in uterus transplantation. He is the only specialist from Australia undertaking this research and has been a collaborative with Swedish universities for more than 16 years. The research is now completed and the team, for the first time in history have achieved five healthy newborns out of nine uterine transplants. All procedures were completed in Sweden with the hope to bring the procedure to Australia in the very near future.

He has a special interest in laparoscopic surgery and the management of abnormal periods and smears.

He believes in a ‘woman centered’ antenatal, labour and post-delivery care with close midwifery collaboration. The safety and welfare of mother and baby unquestionably always comes first.

Source: https://www.ramsayhealth.com.au

Gold Coast University Hospital

1 Hospital Blvd, Southport, QLD, 4215 Australia
https://www.goldcoast.health.qld.gov.au/

Located on the corner of Parklands Drive and Olsen Avenue in Southport and provide public health services for the Gold Coast and wider community.

As one of Queensland’s largest clinical teaching and research facilities, Gold Coast University Hospital has seven main buildings and a total floor space of about 170,000 square meters.

Since 2013, located in the new site, the emergency department has become the busiest in Queensland.

The facility’s design is efficient and allows for expansion to meet the growing health needs of the Gold Coast, one of the fastest growing regions in Australia.

Gold Coast Health offers a range of services for families, women and children including:

Women Services
Maternity Services, Gynaecology, Breast Screening

Children Services
Inpatient child and adolescent ward, Neurodevelopmental Exposure Disorder Clinic, Children’s Day Stay ward, Children’s Surgery, Children’s Emergency Department at GCUH and Robina, Children’s Critical Care Service, Children’s Haematology and Oncology Shared Care, Children’s Palliative Care Service, Children’s Outpatient Department, Queensland Youth Cancer Service

Source: Source: https://www.goldcoast.health.qld.gov.au