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Kathleen Maher Rasmussen 23
First World Congress on Fetal Origins of Adult Disease, Mumbai, India:
“Association between maternal nutritional status during pregnancy and size at birth”,
February 2001.
Symposium, Experimental Biology, Orlando, FL: Human Lactogenesis II:
Mechanisms, Determinants and Consequences, “Obesity May Impair
Lactogenesis II”, April 2001.
Invited presentation, National Nutrition Summit, Washington, DC: “What are the
consequences for maternal health and nutritional status of achieving public health
goals to extend the duration of breastfeeding?, May 2001.
Medical Grand Rounds, Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown, NY: "Consequences
of pre-pregnant obesity for breastfeeding and child growth: results of a
Cornell-Bassett collaboration", January 2002.
International Centre For Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Centre for Health and
Population Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh: “The Barker Hypothesis: challenges and
opportunities in maternal and child health”, March 2002.
Rank Prize Funds Mini Symposium on Determinants and Implications of
Breastfeeding Success, Grasmer, England: "Overweight and obesity before
pregnancy and lactational performance", December 2002.
Institute of Preventive Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen,
Denmark: "Overweight and obesity before pregnancy and lactational
performance among American and Danish women", December 2002.
G. Malcolm Trout Visiting Scholar, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI:
“Informing the Initiative on Food, Nutrition and Health: Visions for the Future and
Lessons from Experience”, February 2005.
Invited presentation, Pediatric Academic Societies, “Does maternal obesity impede
lactation: Evidence and clinical implications”. Washington, DC, May 2005.
National Maternal Nutrition Intensive Course, Minneapolis, MN: “Fetal origins
hypothesis” and “Maternal nutritional status and breastfeeding”, July 2005.
Breastfeeding Grand Rounds, New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY:
“Overweight and obesity before pregnancy and lactation performance”, August 2005.
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA: "Does
maternal obesity impede lactation? Evidence and clinical implications", May 2006.