Breastfeeding/Human Milk
Scholarly Sessions
Public Health
Neonatology
Quality Improvement/Patient Safety
Pediatric Nutrition
Gastroenterology/Hepatology
Clinical Research Pathway
Sarah Taylor, MD, MSCR
Associate Professor
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
After six years of interdisciplinary expert discussion and critical evidence review, the 2014 vision to develop evidence-informed guidance for the nutritional care of preterm infants has come to fruition. The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) initiated this multiphase process involving expert physician, dietitian, and pharmacology scientists. The first phase, Pre-B, addressed the existing evidence and research needs for clinical questions within four themes 1) nutrient specifications for preterm infants, 2) clinical and practical issues in enteral feeding of preterm infants, 3) gastrointestinal and surgical issues, and 4) current standards of infant feeding. This first phase was published in 2016 by Raiten et al as “Working group reports: evaluation of the evidence to support practice guidelines for nutritional care of preterm infants—the Pre-B Project”. The second phase of this process is a systematic review of the literature led by the AND Evidence Analysis Center and includes an international workgroup of clinical and research experts who will now share the results of this extraordinary multi-disciplinary effort in this Hot Topic Symposium. Specifically, the presentations will focus on clinical questions where the existing evidence conflicts with current clinical nutrition recommendations and where the expert work group experienced more difficulty reaching a consensus. Each presentation also will describe areas where existing data is lacking and therefore research should be prioritized. The audience will participate throughout the presentation with polling and with a 15-minute question and answer with the expert work group.
Presenter: Sharon Groh-Wargo, PhD, RDN – MetroHealth Medical Center
Presenter: Sarah Taylor, MD, MSCR – Yale University School of Medicine
Presenter: Camilia R. Martin, MD, MS – Harvard Medical School/Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Presenter: Ian Griffin, MD, MA – Biomedical Research Institute of NJ
Presenter: Tanis Fenton, PhD RD – University of Calgary
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