9:30 AM

Making MOM available for every Premie

Suman Rao PN, MD, DM

Professo & Head, Department of Neonatology
ICMR Collaborating Center of Excellence
St. John's Medical College Hospital
Bengaluru (Bangalore), India

Dr. Rao has worked for over 20 years to improve outcomes of small and sick newborns and has done pioneering research in Kangaroo mother care (KMC) and developmentally supportive care in India. She is also a consultant in the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child, Adolescent, and Aging at the WHO. Dr. Rao is a national trainer for neonatal resuscitation and has led the initiatives to mentor Special Newborn Care Units and reduce neonatal mortality. Dr. Rao is keen on low-cost innovations and has helped to develop low cost remote monitoring of newborns, therapeutic hypothermia devices and CPAP devices. She has been part of WHO projects on immediate KMC, ACTION, and Scale up KMC implementation research. She teaches medical and nursing students and supports their budding research interests.

Location:

Samuel H. Scripps Auditorium

Moderator:

Nigel Rollins, MD

10:00 AM

Topic Introduction, Historic Overview, and Global Public Health Relevance

Nigel Rollins, MD
Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing
World Health Organization (WHO)

10:15 AM

Fuel for Survival

Nelly Amenyogbe, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, REDI-Scholar, Microbiology & Immunology
Dalhousie University, Halifax Canada

Tobias R. Kollmann, MD, PhD
Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Microbiology & Immunology
Dalhousie University, Halifax Canada
CEO, Born Strong Initiative

10:45 AM

A human milk oligosaccharides protects newborn mice from experimental cholera

Fabian Rivera-Chávez, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Molecular Biology
UC San Diego

11:05 AM

Short talk selected from submitted abstracts
Breast milk IgA antibodies protect against Klebsiella pneumoniae colonization

Biana Bernshtein, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Havard

11:15 AM

Short talk selected from submitted abstracts
Human skim milk has antiviral properties towards human T-cell leukemia virus type 1

Stefanie Heym
Doctoral student
Institute of Clinical and Molecular Virology, Uniklinikum Erlangen, Germany

11:25 AM

Short talk selected from submitted abstracts
PureMilk: Rapid diagnostic tool for pathogen detection in milk

Lea Holritz, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Technical University of Denmark

11:35 AM

H5N1 Avian Influenza - What Do We Know about Infection and Milk?

Carrie Byington, MD
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
UC San Diego