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“Clinical Recommendations for Reducing & Preventing Food Allergies”

The Annenberg Center for Health Sciences & Mead Johnson* present…On-demand: “Clinical Recommendations for Reducing & Preventing Food Allergies”

Presenters will examine the importance of optimal nutrition in allergic children, as well as the latest evidence for introducing allergenic foods. The faculty discuss the link between food allergies and poor nutrition and growth; communicating strategies for nutritionally complete elimination diets; assessing and mitigating nutritional risk; the LEAP, EAT, and PETIT studies; solid food introduction and allergies; and the role of skin barrier maintenance in preventing allergies. Faculty will take audience questions.

Learning Objectives

  • Develop management strategies to optimize nutrition in the allergic child and prevent allergic progression
  • Interpret the latest evidence for introducing allergenic food in the first years

This activity is part of the Food Allergy Curriculum: Understanding Food Allergies in Infants and Children: The Symptoms, Diagnoses, and Management

If you are unable to stream the webcast, you may participate via telephone by calling 888-599-8688 and entering passcode 683880 when prompted.

Presenters:

Hugh Sampson, M.D., FAAAAI  |  Kurt Hirschhorn Professor of Pediatrics  |  Department of Pediatrics  |  Director Emeritus of the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute  |  Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Marion Groetch, MS, RDN  | Director of Nutrition Services  |  Jaffe Food Allergy Institute  |  Division of Allergy and Immunology  |  Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Course Credit:

  • 1.00 AANP Contact Hour
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM
  • 1.00 ANCC Contact Hour
  • 1.00 CA-BRN Contact Hour
  • 1.00 CDR Contact Hour

Dates: Opens: 2019-08-01 &  Closes: 2019-08-22

Target Audience: This activity was developed for physicians, pediatric nurse practitioners, nurses, registered dietitians, and other health care professionals who have an interest in newborns, infants and toddlers.

This activity is supported by an educational grant from Mead Johnson Nutrition.

Questions should be addressed to the Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at: cme@annenberg.net

* NOTE: This is a supplier and industry resource-sponsored webinar. HealthTrust has not approved and/or endorsed the content. This program may contain the mention of products, services, drugs or brands presented in a case study or comparative format. Such examples are intended for educational and informational purposes and should not be perceived as a HealthTrust endorsement of any particular supplier, product, service, drug, brand or approach.