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Department of Nutrition Colloquium

Promoting Healthy Weight Colloquium

Infancy:  Nutrition, Physical Activity, Parenting, and Fathers’ Experiences

March 26, 2010
Howard Baker Center & Live Webcast
1640 Cumberland Avenue, Knoxville, TN
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Registration Opens February 19, 2010
Click HERE for a Save the Date Flyer

The Spring 2010 Promoting Healthy Weight Colloquium will focus on the Bright Futures developmental stage of Infancy, but from the fathers’ perspective.  This will build upon the Fall 2009 Colloquium that investigated mothers’ experiences in relationship to infant feeding.  The Spring 2009 colloquium highlighted the issues facing infants, children, families and their communities related to healthy weight with an emphasis on physical activity, parenting, nutrition and Bright Futures. 

Colloquium presentations are intended for practitioners, family members, and researchers.  Registered Dietitians and Certified Health Education Specialists can receive continuing education credits.  Reserve the 4th Friday in March and September until 2013, so that you can participate in the entire Promoting Healthy Weight Colloquium series!  The series focuses on promoting healthy weight gain for infants and healthy weight for children and adults, with an emphasis on the Bright Futures’ developmental stages of infancy and early childhood, nutrition, physical activity, and parenting skills.

You can view archives from past colloquia by clicking on each Colloquium’s title.  Slide presentations are available for each presentation by clicking on the title of the presentation (see below).

Further Information

For questions about the Colloquia, please contact Dr. Marsha Spence, MS-MPH, RD, LDN, Department of Nutrition (mspence@utk.edu); 865/974-6265).

For technology questions about viewing the colloquia archive, please contact Mr. Justin Johnson, ITES (justincjohnson@utk.edu; 687/974-8281).

Host and Sponsor

The University of Tennessee’s Public Health Nutrition Program hosts the Colloquium series.  It is partially supported through grant number T70 MC 09805 from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services.

Archived Webcasts
CLICK HERE TO VIEW ARCHIVED WEBCASTS

Viewing Archived Webcasts

Please note that if you will be viewing online, you will need a fairly up-to-date version of Internet Explorer (Version 7) and Windows Media Player (Version 11).  Quicktime and other players may not be compatible with the webcast format.  However, other browsers and Apple Computers are supported, but users will need to download the Microsoft Silverlight plugin:  http://www.microsoft.com/SILVERLIGHT.
If you experience any problems, please contact Mr. Justin Johnson, ITES (justincjohnson@utk.edu;  865-974-8281).

To view an archive of any webcast, simply click ARCHIVE.   A window will open that will allow you to view the archived colloquium presentations.  Select the archived colloquium that you would like to view from the folders on the left side of the viewing pane.  Descriptions of the archived webcasts and speakers’ presentation slides are below.

Fall 2009 Colloquium
Infancy:  Nutrition, Physical Activity, Parenting and Mothers’ Experiences      

  • Parent Panel:  Mothers’ Experiences

Listen to these 3 mothers from Knoxville talk about feeding their infants.  Their stories and perspectives, while not intended as recommendations or guidelines, highlight the important role of families, providers and communities working together to promote healthy weight gain of infants. 

There was so much interest in their perspectives that all of the questions submitted by colloquium participants were not answered.  To read their replies to some of these questions, please click here.

  • Cultural Perspectives of Infant Feeding (Click HERE for slide presentation)
    Hillary Fouts, PhD, Assistant Professor, Child and Family Studies
    University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  • Born to Play: Physical Activity in Infancy (Click HERE for slide presentation)
    Dawn Podulka Coe PhD, Assistant Professor, Exercise, Sports and Leisure Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  • Strategies to Prevent Overfeeding During Infancy: The WIC Baby Behavior Study(Click HERE for slide presentation)
    M. Jane Heinig, PhD, IBCLC, Academic Administrator, Department of Nutrition and Director, Human Lactation Center, University of California, Davis

If you are a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES), you can receive 3 continuing education contact hours (Provider # SSP3245) for viewing the archived Fall 2009 webcast until September 24, 2010.  To obtain the continuing education hours, you MUST complete the two evaluations below.  After completion, your certificate will be e-mailed to you within 60 days.  

            CHES Evaluation for Fall 2009 Colloquium (Click HERE for evaluation)
                       
            CHES Fall 2009 CHES Self-Study Questionnaire (Click HERE for questionnaire)
                       

Spring 2009 Colloquium
Promoting Healthy Weight Colloquium Series Overview

  • Weighing In On Maternal and Child Health:  Finding the Missing Pieces (Click HERE for slide presentation)
    Barbara Levin, MD, MPH, Health Officer, Loudon County Health Department; Medical Director, Women’s Wellness and Maternity Center, Madisonville, TN

  • Overview of Issues Related to Physical Activity in Maternal and Child Populations (Click HERE for slide presentation)
    James M. Pivarnik, PhD, Professor and Director, Center for Physical Activity and Health, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

If you are a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES), you can receive 3.5 continuing education contact hours (Provider # SSP3109) for viewing the archived Spring 2009 webcast until March 24, 2010.  To obtain the continuing education hours, you MUST complete the two evaluations below.  After completion, your certificate will be e-mailed to you within 60 days.  

CHES Evaluation for Spring 2009 Colloquium (Click HERE for evaluation)

CHES Spring 2009 CHES Self-Study Questionnaire (Click HERE for questionnaire)

 

Contact the Department of Nutrition

1215 W. Cumberland Ave.
229 Jessie Harris Building
Knoxville, TN 37996-1920

Brenda Hart
bhart57@utk.edu

Phone: (865) 974-5445
Fax: (865) 974-3491