7th Annual George G. Graham Lectureship
A Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Discovery of Vitamins
Keynote Speaker: Bruce Ames, PhD
Vitamin and Mineral Inadequacy Accelerates Age-Related Disease
December 3, 2013
Presented by
The Middendorf Foundation, The George G. Graham Endowment, The International Fund for Infant Nutrition, and Dr. TC & Mrs. Lee Wu
AGENDA | ||
12:15 – 12:20 p.m. | Welcome and Introduction | Keith P. West, Jr. DrPH, RD |
12:20 – 12:25 | The Career of E.V. McCollum, Ph.D. | Pierre Coulombe, PhD |
12:25 – 12:30 | Introduction of Keynote Speaker | Mike Klag, MD, MPH |
12:30 – 1:30 | Vitamin and Mineral Inadequacy Accelerates Age-related Disease | Bruce Ames, PhD Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Center |
1:30 – 1:50 | Hidden Hunger around the Globe | Klaus Kraemer, PhD Director, Sight and Life, Basel |
1:50 – 2:10 | Vitamin A at 100: Saving Lives Millions at a Time | Alfred Sommer, MD, MHS Dean Emeritus and Professor, JHSPH |
2:10 – 2:30 | Vitamin D and Chronic Disease Prevention:The Best Century is Yet to Come | William Checkley, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, JHSPH |
Coffee & Tea Break | ||
3:00 – 3:20 | Micronutrient Interventions that Work: The 2013 Lancet Nutrition Series | Robert E. Black, MD, MPH Professor, JHSPH |
3:20 – 3:40 | Micronutrients Help Fight Infection: How? | Harry Dawson, PhD Nutritional Immunologist, USDA, Beltsville |
3:40 – 4:00 | Micronutrients in Food and Supplements: How Good is our US Diet? | Regan Bailey, PhD, RD Nutritional Epidemiologist, NIH ODS |
4:00 – 4:20 | Developmental Exposure to Micronutrients: Life-long Effects in Undernourished Settings | Parul Christian, DrPH, MSc Professor, JHSPH |
4:20 – 4:30 | mHealth: A New Frontier for Micronutrient Deficiency Prevention | Alain Labrique, PhD Assistant Professor, JHSPH |
4:30 – 4:40 | Mining the Plasma Proteome to Reveal “Hidden Hunger” | Keith West, DrPH, RD Professor, JHSPH |
4:40 – 5:20 | Challenges to Preventing Hidden Hunger: An Open Dialogue | Moderators: Manfred Eggersdorfer, PhD Ellen Piwoz, PhD |
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. | Reception: The Gallery | Everyone |
Contact for the Department of International Health: Brandon Howard at 410-502-9059 or bhoward@jhsph.edu.