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Our graduate department-led student publication is here! uoftnutrizine.wordpress.com Click through to read about how graduate students are practicing wellness during the COVID-19 pandemic and how our department has shifted to delivering engaging virtual events.

📢Calling all 5.5-6.5-year-olds (& a caregiver)! Participate remotely in a GrEAT Study about children’s eating, growth and health! 🍎 Interested? 📩: [email protected]

Care must be taken to ensure vulnerable infants born very low birth weight receive enough fat & fatty acids, particularly when fed a high proportion of donor human milk. Check out the paper in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition! Congrats on this great work Kathryn Hopperton 🎉: academic.oup.com/ajcn/advance-a…

📢 The MaxiMoM Research team led by Deborah L. O’Connor & Sharon Unger has a new website! Check it out to keep updated on how we are using nutrition to help improve the health of infants born preterm! 🎉 maximom-research.com

Great visit with the O'Connor lab today! Thanks Michael Pitino, PhD (aka Lab Walk Director) for hosting us on your Wednesday Walk. Collaborations coming soon! 🤱

Spreading holiday cheer @ #DistilleryWinterVillage showcasing our lovely The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and Ryan Reynolds ‘ugly’ Christmas sweaters!

Very much looking forward to this timely talk from Yvonne Lamers especially relevant as we all look towards consuming a more #sustainable & #plantbased diet 🌱

Welcomed a few new additions to our Wednesday walk crew this week (👋Kozeta Miliku MD, PhD Jacqueline Beaudry)! Can't get enough of this gorgeous spring weather😎

A beautiful fall day for this week’s #WednesdayWalk 🍂☀️🧡Deborah L. O’Connor Michael Pitino, PhD Jo-Anna Baxter, PhD Megan Beggs Adrianna Greco

Just a few snapshots from a truly wonderful day. Thank you to everyone who came! 💙🤍 #DNSResearchDay 📸🧵(1/4)

So excited to be in Panama this week for the #ISRHML2022 conference! ISRHML

Thanks so much to @stacias_doula_services and Hirut Melaku, IBCLC ::ሂሩት:: for their fantastic presentation on community partnerships for infant feeding, including the @ocamacollective, engaging meaningfully, and so much more at the @ishrml conference #isrhml2022

Traditional Panamanian dance and amazing Canadian colleagues #ISRHML2022 U of T Nutritional Sciences

Exciting new work from an O’Connor lab alumna!!

Does #folate supplement form impact #humanmilk composition? Kelsey M Cochrane found a difference between folic acid and natural folate in unmetabolized folate. Clinical implications and impact on the baby TBD #ISRHML2022 UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems ISRHML

Huge congrats to Adrianna Greco on passing her MSc thesis defense today! 🎉👏 Nice that in-person/hybrid exams are back ☺️ Deborah L. O’Connor Jo-Anna Baxter, PhD Paris

Congratulations to Dr. Deborah O'Connor, Chair & Earle W McHenry Professor, on her Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Human Milk and Infant Nutrition! We are so proud of all that Dr. O'Connor has accomplished throughout her incredible career 👏Deborah L. O’Connor chairs-chaires.gc.ca/media-medias/i…

Thrilled to be joining the TIG committee as Newsletter Editor!

Thanks Temerty Medicine for this feature! Have you heard of the Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program? Across Canada, the CPNP provides important perinatal nutrition support to families navigating challenging life circumstances--but funding has *not* increased in over two decades

I’m excited to share that my first-author publication from my MSc is out! 🎉 We validated a new, faster machine to assess vitamin B12 in human milk *and* assessed the vitamin B12 concentrations of samples donated to a Toronto milk bank.🍼clinicalnutritionjournal.com/article/S0261-…