Milk Club: Elucidating Human Milk’s Impact on Childhood Disease

Sunday, April 27, 2025

12:25pm – 1:50pm HST

Location: Convention Center: 320

CE: 1.5

Chair(s)

Sarah Taylor, MD, MSCR (she/her/hers)

Professor of Pediatrics
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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Sarah Keim, PhD (she/her/hers)

Professor
Nationwide Children's Hospital / Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio, United States

Disclosure(s):

Sarah Taylor, MD, MSCR: Ferring Pharmaceuticals (Terminated, December 8, 2023) (Products/Services: Research Support including clinical trials & the principal or named investigator); Pfizer (Terminated, January 3, 2023) (Products/Services: Research Support including clinical trials & the principal or named investigator); Prolacta Bioscience (Terminated, July 21, 2023) (Products/Services: Research Support including clinical trials & the principal or named investigator)

Sarah A. Keim, PhD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Human milk feeding relates to lower population disease. The processes by which this occurs is an evolving field of study. Milk Club will focus on the mechanisms by which human milk impacts infant gut development and pediatric allergy risk. These critical areas of research inform not only on pediatric disease risk, but also on the critical biological system that is lactation.

Learning Objectives:

Determine the impact of feeding type on intestinal epithelial cells.
Identify the role of human milk in the risk for pediatric allergy.
Identify the mechanisms by which human milk protects from disease.

Presentations:

12:25pm – 1:05pm HST

Human Milk Supports Intestinal Health
Speaker: Liza Konnikova, MD PhD (she/her/hers) – Yale School of Medicine
1:05pm – 1:50pm HST

Human Milk, Gut Microbiome and the Risk for Childhood Food Allergy
Speaker: Kirsi M. Jarvinen-Seppo, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Unievrsity of Rochester School of Medicine