Section 1 Causes and Assessment of Ex Utero Growth Restriction in Preterm Infants
Growth Charts for Preterm Infants and Related Tools for Growth Monitoring
Tanis R. Fenton, PhD RD
Assessment of Short- and Medium-Term Outcomes in Preterm Infants
Nicholas D. Embleton, Matthew J. Hyde, and Claire Wood
Causes of Postnatal Growth Failure in Preterm Infants
E. Bertino, P. Di Nicola, L. Occhi, G. Prandi, and G. Gilli
Section 2 The Effects of In Utero and Ex Utero Growth in Term and Preterm Infants
Fetal and Postnatal Growth, and the Risks of Metabolic Syndrome in the AGA and SGA Term Infant
Ian J. Griffin
Effect of Postnatal Growth on the Risk of Metabolic Syndrome in the Large for Gestational Age Term Infant
Rae-Chi Huang and Elizabeth A. Davis
Postnatal Growth Failure in Preterm Infants: Metabolic Outcomes
Richard J. Cooke and Ian J. Griffin
Postnatal Growth in Preterm Infants: Neurodevelopmental Effects
Ian J. Griffin and Jennifer Scoble
Section 3 Can We Be Better? Reducing Ex Utero Growth Restriction in Preterm Infants
Assessing Nutritional Requirements for Preterm Infants
Frank R. Greer
Meeting Nutritional Goals: Computer-Aided Prescribing
of Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition
Magnus Domellöf and Dirk Wackernagel
Customize Or Generalize? Or the Imperfect Art of Feeding Preterm Infants
Ekhard E. Ziegler
Customized Fortification of Human Milk
Sharon Groh-Wargo and Jae H. Kim
Mathematical Description of Postnatal Growth: Z-scores and Statistical Control Process Analysis
Ian J. Griffin
Biography
Ian Griffin was born in the United Kingdom. He studied medicine at Leeds University before training in pediatrics in Glasgow. He has been involved in research on the growth and nutrition of preterm infants since the 1990s, and was involved in a large study of post-discharge nutrition in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the U.K. before moving to the U.S. He was a member of the neonatal faculty at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, before moving to the University of California–Davis in Sacramento, California in 2008. His research interests include the growth and nutrition of newborn infants, and mineral requirements of preterm infants. He has spoken at meetings across the world, and is the author of over 80 peer-reviewed publications.
