Vitamin D Conference - Ireland

Created May 2017

http://www.vitamindconference.eu/

Schedule as of May 2017

Plenary Session 1: Dietary requirements for vitamin D

The ODIN Individual Participant Data Level analyses of vitamin D dietary requirements for adults, and consideration of adult ethnic minorites

Professor Kevin Cashman, University College Cork, Ireland

Dietary requirements for vitamin D: Children & adolescents

Professor Susan Lanham-New, University of Surrey, UK – to be confirmed

Dietary requirements for vitamin D: Pregnancy and infancy

Professor Mairead Kiely, University College Cork, Ireland

Dietary requirements for vitamin D: Consideration of sun and ethnic minorities

Professor Ann Webb, University of Manchester, UK

Short oral communication x 2 (promoted from submitted abstracts)

Plenary Session 2 (including special workshop): Evidence-base for food strategies and novel food solutions for tackling inadequacy of vitamin D intake and status

Chaired by Professor Susan Whiting and Dr Jette Jakobsen

The case for vitamin D food fortification as an approach to tackle low vitamin D intakes, including regulatory aspects

Dr Mona Calvo, USA

Vitamin D food fortification: the Finnish experience as an exemplar for Europe

Professor Christel Lamberg-Allardt, University of Helsinki, Finland

An overview of the evidence from food-based dietary intervention studies, including data from the ODIN food RCT in vulnerable adults

Dr Rikke Andersen & Ida Grønborg, Danish Technical University, Denmark

Short oral communication x 1 (promoted from submitted abstracts)

Co-jointly ODIN/EnhanceD organised Workshop on Novel Food-Based Approaches for Addressing Vitamin D Inadequacy

Chairs: Professor Manfred Eggersdorfer (DSM Nutritional Products) and Other to be confirmed

Biofortified eggs Dr Aoife Hayes, University College Cork, Ireland

Biofortified beef and pork Professor John O’Doherty, University College Dublin, Ireland

Consumer acceptability of biofortified meat and eggs Dr Maurice O’Sullivan, University College Cork, Ireland

Vitamin D-enriched dairy foods Dr Ellen van den Heuvel, FrieslandCampina, The Netherlands

Vitamin D-enriched cereals to be confirmed

UV-treatment of foods as a vitamin D enrichment approach Professor Kevin Cashman, University College Cork, Ireland

Dietary modelling of vitamin D & the importance of quality food composition data Ms Sandrine Pigat, Crème Global Nutrition, Ireland

6th September

Invited keynote presentation

Professor Paul Lips, VU University Medical Center Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Plenary Session 3: Adult health

Chaired by Professor Rolf Jorde and Professor Christopher Sempos

Vitamin D and selected non-skeletal health outcomes

Professor Lars Rejnmark, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark

Where to go from here with vitamin D and health interventions

Dr Guri Grimnes, Tromsø University, Norway – to be confirmed

Vitamin D on respiratory disease

Professor Adrian Martineau, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Short oral communication x 3 (promoted from submitted abstracts)

Plenary Session 4: Infant and maternal health

Chaired by Professor Mairead Kiely and to be confirmed

Vitamin D and pre-eclampsia

Professor Martin Hewison, University of Birmingham, UK

Update on vitamin D and perinatal outcomes

Professor Zulf Mughal, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, UK

Update on vitamin D and paediatric bone and physical growth

University of Southampton, UK – speaker to be confirmed