TARGeting Child Health

Special presentation by DR. JONATHON MAGUIRE, M.D. (University of Toronto). FRCPC (Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada), M.Sc., Clinical Epidemiology (University of Toronto), Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto.

Dr Maguire will present an overview of TARGet Kids! past/present/future, linking early life exposures to health problems including obesity, micronutrient deficiencies, and developmental problems.

Dr. Jonathon Maguire is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto, a scientist in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital and a staff pediatrician in the Department of Pediatrics at St. Michael’s Hospital with an active pediatric hospitalist and outpatient clinical practice. His research interests focus on clinical trials involving nutrition and development in young children. He is a lead investigator in the Canadian primary care practice based research network for children called TARGet Kids! and is currently involved in a number of CIHR funded cohort imbedded trials. He was the recipient of the 2012 Samuel J. Fomon Young Physician Award from the American Society of Nutrition, the 2013 Canadian Paediatric Society Young Investigator Award, a 2013 Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator Award and a 2014 Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation Early Research Award.

Everyone is welcome to attend.