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

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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 George G. Graham Professor, JHSPH
12:20 – 12:25	The Career of E.V. McCollum, Ph.D.	Pierre Coulombe, PhD Chair, Dept. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, JHSPH
12:25 – 12:30	Introduction of Keynote Speaker	Mike Klag, MD, MPH Dean, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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: Scott Shane New York Times Manfred Eggersdorfer, PhD Senior Nutritionist, DSM, Ltd, Basel Ellen Piwoz, PhD Senior Program Officer, Gates Foundation
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.