20-21 September - Reading - We are what we eat - children's nutrition in the 21st century

British Association for Community Child Health - Annual Scientific Meeting

Provisional meeting programme

Tuesday 20 September DAY ONE

09.30 Registration and coffee
10.00 Welcome - Professor Mary Rudolf
10.10 Keynote lecture. The importance of early nutrition. Professor Alan Lucas, MRC Clinical research Professor, Institute of Child Health
10.55 CPHIG keynote lecture. Defusing the obesity time bomb. Dr Susan Jebb, Head of Nutrition and Health Research, Medical Research Council Human Nutrition Research centre (HNR)
11.40 Coffee and exhibition
12.10 Free paper session
1.15 Lunch, posters and exhibition
2.15 - 3.15 Workshops/seminars
3.25 - 4.30 Workshops/seminars
Two workshops to be selected from the following:

• Obesity - Dr Matt Sabin, Research Registrar, Bristol Hospital for Children
• Iron deficiency anaemia - Dr Rob Moy, Senior Lecturer in Community Child Health, Birmingham & Anne Aukett, Consultant Community Paediatrician, Birmingham
• Eating difficulties in young children - leader to be confirmed
• Food allergies - Dr Warren Hyer, Consultant Paediatrician and Paediatric Gastroenterologist Northwick Park and St Mark's Hospital
• Eating disorders - Dr Dasha Nichols, Consultant Psychiatrist, Institute of Child Health
• Suggestions for a breastfeeding baby who is not growing - Mary Smale, Breastfeeding counsellor for the National Childbirth Trust
• Constipation - Dr Ursula Butler, Consultant Community Paediatrician, Sheffield Children's Trust
• Development of children's eating skills - Gill Harris, Birmingham's Children's Hospital

4.30 Tea and exhibition
5.0 Keynote lecture. Seizing the Opportunities to Improve the Lives and Health of Children and Young People. Professor Al Aynsley-Green, Nuffield Professor of Child Health, Institute of Child Health
5.45 BACCH Annual General Meeting
8.00 Dinner (Bar opens at 6.15pm)

Wednesday 21 September DAY TWO

8.30 Coffee and registration (2nd day attenders)
9.00 British Academy of Childhood Disability BACD Keynote lecture. Chair - Dr Jane Williams, Consultant Paediatrician, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham. Nutrition, health and development in children with disabilities. Dr Lewis Rosenbloom, Honorary Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, Liverpool
9.45 Parallel sessions: Free paper/ Personal practice
11.00 Coffee and exhibition
11.30 Child protection Special Interest Group Session. Food fads and eating disorders - when is it child protection? Hilary Davies and Libby Read, Family therapists, Dept of Psychological Medicine, Great Ormond Street Hospital
12.15 Workshops

• The role of nutrition in children's behaviour, learning and mood. Dr Alex Richardson, Senior Research Fellow, University Lab of Physiology, Oxford; and co-director, Food And Behaviour Research.
• Writing community paediatric exam questions for MRCPCH. Workshop leader tbc
• Trainees' Workshop. Dr Gabrielle Laing, Consultant Paediatrician, City and Hackney PCT
• Gastrostomy and weaning off tube feeding. Dr Peter Sullivan, University Lecturer in Paediatrics, John Radcliffe Hospital
• Eating difficulties and the autistic spectrum. Liz Shea, Clinical Psychologist, Birmingham Children's Hospital
• Food poverty - a toolkit for implementing local strategy. Professor Nick Spencer, Professor of Community Paediatrics, University of Warwick
• Aspiration and eating safely. Sue Strudwick, Speech and Language Therapist, Kingston Hospital
• What's really on the label? - improving communication between manufacturers and parents. Kath Dalmenny, Policy Officer, Food Commission
• Failure to thrive. Dr Chris Hobbs, Consultant Paediatrician, St James' University Hospital, Leeds

1.15 Lunch, posters and exhibition
2.15 Workshops (as above)
3.30 BACCH 'University Challenge'. Compered by Dr David Vickers, BACCH Convener
Teams from each of the Special Interest Groups
4.15 Award of challenge, CATCH and 'Child' prizes

4.30 Tea and Close