Biological Windows into Child Wellness
 

SPEAKER
Kanwaljeet Anand, MBBS, D.Phil
Professor of Pediatrics and (by courtesy) Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine
Stanford School of Medicine
 

SESSION DESCRIPTION
For hundreds of years, medicine has focused on the leading causes of death, disease, and disability. Investigating the leading causes of life instead, of health, wellness, and human flourishing may offer alternative solutions to the major problems of facing children and families today. This talk presents a scientific framework for examining and monitoring wellness in healthy children, and exposing the potential avenues for promoting wellness in sick, critically ill, or injured children.
 

EDUCATION GOALS

• Define the life-long effects of childhood adversity on physical and mental health, academic scores, socioeconomic outcomes, and risk-taking behaviors, as well as the protective effects of parental warmth and early bonding experiences.
• Examine the role of hair biomarkers as objective measures of early childhood adversity and their effects on child growth, early cognitive, behavioral, and social-emotional development, as well as elementary school outcomes.
• Examine the potential of hair biomarkers to reveal the mechanistic pathways regulating brain development, immune system regulation, and stress-axis regulation underlying the long-term effects early life adversity on childhood outcomes.

LOCATION (in-person)
Center for Academic Medicine
Red Oak Dining Room
453 Quarry Road,
Palo Alto, CA 94304

*This session will be taking place at the Red Oak Dining Room inside Cafe Arbor at CAM. Limited seating will be available. Click here for map to space.


ZOOM INFORMATION
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