September 4-5, 2018
I-Hotel and Conference Center, Champaign, IL
The first 1,000 days of life - the time spanning roughly between conception and a child’s second birthday - is a unique period of opportunity when the foundations of optimum health, growth, and neurodevelopment across the lifespan are established. Environmental exposures, including nutrition, stress, and environmental toxins, can interact with the child’s genetics during the first 1,000 days of a child’s life to have lifelong implications on their physical, mental and emotional health. Learn more about basic and applied transdisciplinary research being conducted at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign that is addressing this critical window of development using a cells-to-society framework.
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Agenda
SEPT. 4, 2018
I-Hotel Chancellor's Ballroom
3:30 p.m. Registration Opens
4:00 p.m. Welcome
Neal Cohen, PhD
Director, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute
4:15 p.m. The Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute Health Ideas Inaugural Address:
“The First 1000 Days: The Foundation for Health and Brain Development”
Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, PhD, Dr. Honoris Causa
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
Yale School of Public Health
5:15p.m.- 6:45p.m. Poster Session and Reception
SEPT. 5, 2018
I-Hotel Chancellor's Ballroom
8:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. Welcome and Overview Barbara Fiese, PhD Professor and Director, Family Resiliency Center
8:45 a.m. Cellular and Biological Influences in the First 1000 Days
Sue Schantz, PhD
Sharon Donovan, PhD, RD | Margarita Teran-Garcia, PhD, MD
Naiman Khan, PhD, RD
Session Moderator/Panelist:
Yuan-Xiang Pan, PhD
10:15 a.m. Coffee Break
10:30 a.m. Family, Childcare, and Community Level Influences
Brent McBride, PhD
Barbara Fiese, PhD
Marian Fitzgibbon, PhD
Session Moderator/Panelist(s):
Monika Stodolska, PhD
Kelly Bost, PhD
12:00-1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. Dissemination to Policy and Practice
Craig Gundersen, PhD
Karen Tabb Dina, PhD
Jonathan Woods, MSN, RN, NE-BC
Julianna Sellett, DNP, MBA, RN, CPHQ, CENP
Session Moderator/Panelist:
First 1,000 Days Symposium Agenda - Downloadable PDF
Speaker and Panelist Information
Poster Submission Form Graduate students are encouraged to submit an abstract.
*No CEU credits will be offered at this Symposium.
Contact
Jennifer Themanson
Phone: 217-244-5119
Email: jthemans@illinois.edu
