Committee to Reexamine IOM Pregnancy Weight Guidelines

Meeting 2

Open Session

March 10, 2008

9:00 am - 12:00 pm (Pacific)

Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies

Huntington Room

100 Academy Way, Irvine, CA 92617

9:00 am           Open Session: Determinants of Gestational Weight Gain and Pregnancy Outcome

I.      Biological Determinants of Gestational Weight Gain
            Speaker: Theresa Scholl, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

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  II.          Developmental Programming Determinants of Chronic Disease
Speaker: Lucilla Poston, King’s College, London

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 III.       Total Weight Gain and Pattern of Weight Gain in Pregnancy
Speaker: Marie Cedergren, Linkoping University, Sweden

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11:00               Q&A with Committee Members

12:00 pm         Adjourn open session

***For additional information, please email M. Jennifer Datiles (MDatiles@nas.edu), Senior Program Assistant.***