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Childhood nutrition
Critically examine the nature and scope of developing nutrition for children in their formative years and the management of common nutritional concerns.
Overview
What you will learn
- Recognise key clinical features and subtypes
- Develop practical treatment plans using topical, systemic and procedural options
- Identify triggers, patient factors and long-term management strategies
- Apply evidence-based approaches in everyday clinical practice
Course contents
Meet your presenter
Dr Peta Paterson
Accredited Practising Dietitian and Senior Teaching Fellow, Bond University
Peta Paterson is an Accredited Practising Dietitian and Senior Teaching Fellow at Bond University. Her teaching focuses on community and public health nutrition issues and its application to improving the health of the population. Prior to academia she has worked as a dietitian in the general practice setting supporting patients to achieve optimum health through nutrition. She has also spent over 10 years as a Senior Public Health Nutritionist with a primary focus on the health of mothers, infants and children. She has been a member of the Dietitians Association of Australia since 2001.
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Accreditations
Royal Australian College of General Practitioners
Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine
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