International Festschrift will mark the retirement of Professor Lawrence Weaver
Published: 21 December 2011
An international meeting on Infant and Child Growth, Nutrition and Gastroenterology will be held on 13 January to celebrate the distinguished career of Professor Lawrence Weaver
An International Meeting on Infant and Child Growth, Nutrition and Gastroenterology will be held at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow on Friday 13th January 2012
The Festschrift, which will be followed by a Ceilidh at Oran Mor, is to mark the retirement of Professor Lawrence Weaver, Samson Gemmell Professor of Child Health, who has worked at the University of Glasgow from 1996-2011
Eminent speakers include:
A Counter-Intuitive Adventure in Early Nutrition
Professor Alan Lucas, Medical Research Council Clinical Professor and Director of the Childhood Nutrition Research Centre, Institute of Child Health, London.
Breast Feeding, Complementary Feeding and Growth in Early Infancy
Professor Kim Fleisher-Michaelsen, Professor of Paediatric and International Nutrition, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Calcium and Vitamin D Requirements: Perspective from Cross-Cultural Studies
Professor Ann Prentice, Director of MRC Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge.
Helicobacter pylori: a Gatekeeper’s Role in the Expression of Gastroduodenal Disease
Dr Julian Thomas, Senior Lecturer in Child Health, Newcastle University.
Paediatric IBD in Scotland: More, Misunderstood and Under the Microscope
Professor David Wilson, Professor of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, University of Edinburgh.
Child Survival and Diarrhoeal Diseases: in Quest of the Global Diarrhoea Action Plan
Professor Zulfiqar Bhutta, Husein Laljee Dewraj Professor of Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Development of the Gut Microbiota in Infancy and its Role in Promoting Health
Professor Christine Edwards, Professor of Nutritional Physiology, University of Glasgow.
Charting Children’s Growth: Every Picture Tells a Story?
Professor Charlotte Wright, Professor of Community Child Health, University of Glasgow.
Epidemics in History
Professor Samuel Cohn, Professor of Medieval History, University of Glasgow.
For full information and registration visit www.glasgow.ac.uk/departments/childhealth/festschrift/
First published: 21 December 2011
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