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a shared dialogue among Occupational and Environmental Medicine Physicians,
the Hennepin Regional Poison Center, the Minnesota Department of Health,
and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Environmental Exposure Grand Rounds
Wednesday, May 7, 2014 - 7am to 8am
Doors open at 6:45 AM - Coffee, juice and morning bites will be available
Iron Deficiency and Brain Development
Presenter: Michael K. Georgieff, M.D.,
University of Minnesota, Amplatz Children’s Hospital
Dr. Michael Georgieff is an internationally recognized expert on fetal and neonatal risk factors to the
developing brain, and specifically the hippocampus. He is currently the Martin Lenz Harrison Land Grant
Professor of Pediatrics, the head of the Section of Neonatology, and the Vice Chair of the Department of
Pediatrics at the University fo Minnesota. He co-founded and directs the University of Minnesota’s
Center for Neurobehavioral Development, an interdisciplinary research center that spans 11 departments
and 5 schools within the University.
Dr. Michael Georgieff will explore how interdisciplinary approaches are used to understand the role of
nutrients that are critical for normal brain development early in life.
• Basic nutrient-brain interaction principles include the roles of timing, dose and duration in
determining developmental risk to brain structures and processes.
• The role of fetal and neonatal iron in the developing brain will be used as the primary example
although the talk will highlight a number of nutrients that are important in early brain-behavior
development.
• Iron deficiency is one of the most common nutrient deficiencies in the world. Neonatal iron
deficiency is common in infants born to severely anemic mothers (not common in US), but also
in infants born to non-anemic mothers whose pregnancies are complicated by diabetes mellitus,
hypertension or cigarette smoking. Iron deficiency is also common in toddlers and results in a
different spectrum of neurobehavioral problems due, in part, to the timing of the deficiency.
Minnesota Department of Health – Freeman Building - 625 Robert St. N., St. Paul, 55155
• Street parking is free before 8am
• Metered parking is available at Lot U located at N. Robert St. & 14th St. across from the
entrance to the Freeman Bldg or on the Orange Level of Centennial Parking Ramp on
Rev. Dr. MLK. Jr.Blvd
• Directions and Parking information available at
http://www.health.state.mn.us/about/freeman.html#parking
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(651) 201-4897 or (800) 657-3908.
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