ILE PEDIA FORUM – Sydney, Australia (September 2019)

TOPIC 1

Risk Factors For Late Obesity in the First 1000 Days

Prof. Peter S.W. Davies

TOPIC 2

Healthy Infant Gut and Factors Affecting Gut Colonization and Immunity

Karina Savage

Prof. Peter SW Davies

BSc (Hons), M Phil, PhD, R.Nutr, FNSA
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, he 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. He 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 Professor Davies’ work has utilized novel and new isotopic tracers to investigate energy metabolism and body composition in health and disease.

He 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.

Karina Savage

Director, Smartbite Nutrition Consulting

Karina Savage is a leading Paediatric Gut Health Dietitian (Nutritionist) with 15 year’s experience of clinical paediatric experience and is the Director of Smartbite Nutrtion Team. She currently practices primarily at Sydney (Mosman and Randwick, NSW) seeing infants, children and adolescents. She worked at Women’s & Children’s Hospital in Adelaide where she specialised in gastroenterology (both clinically and research). She is a published author in the area of pediatric reflux and allergy.

Her specialization in Children’s Gut Health enables her to support parents in managing their child’s issue such as food allergy, carbohydrate intolerance, IBS (FODAP), Coeliac, Crohns Disease, Constipation and colic.

She is a public speaker and educator focusing on educating International Peadiatricians, Nurses, GPs, Dietitians and other Health professionals.