Wednesday, November 7th, 2012 Global Child Health: Big Picture and Narrow Focus

DateTimeLocation
Wednesday, November 7, 20124:00PM - 6:00PMThe Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk Centre For International Studies - 1 Devonshire Place

Series

Global Ideas Institute Expert Speaker Series

Description

Stanley Zlotkin received his medical training at McMaster University and McGill and obtained a PhD in Nutrition at the University of Toronto. He has worked as a clinician-nutritionist and research scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children since 1980. He is currently a Professor in the Departments of Paediatrics and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto, a senior scientist in the Research Institute of The Hospital for Sick Children, Medical Director of Nutrition Support at The Hospital for Sick Children and Head of the Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition at the Hospital. As well as being a consultant on nutritional issues to the Canadian Federal and Provincial Government, he is past Chairman of the Nutrition Committee of the Canadian Paediatric Society and past Chair of the Research Ethics Board of the Research Institute of The Hospital for Sick Children.

Stanley has active research in Canada (supported by Health Canada and the Centers for Disease Control), Ghana (supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research), Mongolia (supported by World Vision and the HJ Heinz Foundation) and China (supported by the HJ Heinz Foundation). He recently received the HJ Heinz Humanitarian Award for his international efforts related to micronutrient deficiencies.


Speakers

Stanley Zlotkin
Chief, Global Child Health, The Hospital for Sick Children; Senior Scientist, Child Health Evaluative Sciences, Research Institute; Professor of Nutritional Sciences & Pediatrics, University of Toronto


Main Sponsor

Asian Institute

Co-Sponsors

University of Toronto Schools

Canada Centre for Global Security Studies

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