ILE PEDIA FORUM – Melbourne, Australia (October 2019)

TOPIC 1

Why The First 1000 Days Is So Important In Early Life

Prof. Peter S.W. Davies

TOPIC 2

Mothers Taking Charge In Setting The Course For Lifelong Health

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.

The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne

50 Flemington Rd, Parkville VIC 3052, Australia

The Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria’s children and their families for over 140 years. They have passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of close to 4,000, and they provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.

They are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.

The Royal Children’s Hospital offers a wide variety of services to their pediatric patients: They have various departments that focuses on the needs of their patients:

Department of Adolescent Medicine team at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne provides care and management to adolescents and their families via a range of specialist multidisciplinary services:

• Gender Service Improving the physical and mental wellbeing outcomes of children and adolescents who experience gender dysphoria.
• Eating Disorders Service Clinical management of anorexia nervosa, atypical anorexia nervosa and other restrictive eating disorders
• Chronic Illness Peer Support Structured activities for adolescents and young adults with significant chronic illness to learn from each other, broaden their experiences and gain skills
• Young People’s Health Services Primary care in the Melbourne CBD for adolescents and young adults who are homeless or marginalized
• Inpatient and outpatient medical service Paediatricians specializing in the care and management of adolescents with a focus on psychosocial complexity including chronic fatigue syndrome and somatization

Department of Neonatal Medicine offers the Butterfly ward which provides the best neonatal care for the sickest babies and infants from Victoria, interstate and overseas. Babies admitted to the Butterfly ward have a wide range of complex medical and surgical problems. Some require the support of a ventilator for their breathing and many require specialized surgical procedures.

The management of our babies is overseen by a team of Neonatologists, Neonatal Nurses and Allied Health specialists. Particularly complex or long term patients are appointed a Nurse Coordinator to co-ordinate their care.