April Grand Rounds: Nutrition and Fertility: What You and Your Patient Should Know

Name: April Grand Rounds: Nutrition and Fertility: What You and Your Patient Should Know
Start: 2020-04-23T20:00:00+01:00
End: 2020-04-23T21:00:00+01:00

23rd April 2020 @ 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM BST

Presented by: Jorge Chavarro, MD, ScD, PhD.

Associate Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Jorge Chavarro, MD, ScD., from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will take a comprehensive look at how nutrition and lifestyle impact fertility, from pre-conception throughout the life-span and what dietary guidance you can use to support patients.

Dr. Chavarro has over 200 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals, most looking at how different dietary, lifestyle and environmental factors can impact human fertility. He is currently the Principal Investigator of the Nurses’ Health Study 3 – an ongoing prospective cohort of young professional women started in 2010 designed to investigate the role of diet, lifestyle and biological factors on various aspects of women’s health which includes a strong emphasis on reproductive outcomes. Dr. Chavarro also leads the nutritional component of the EARTH Study, an ongoing prospective cohort of couples undergoing infertility treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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Jorge E. Chavarro, M.D., Sc.D., is Associate Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Chavarro’s research is focused on understanding how nutrition and lifestyle impact human reproduction from pre-conception and throughout the life course. Currently, this effort is concentrated in two fronts. First, he conducts research aimed at understanding how different nutritional and metabolic factors influence fertility, in women and men, as well as treatment outcomes in couples undergoing assisted reproduction. In addition, he studies how nutrition and lifestyle impact health during pregnancy and how this impacts the health of mother and child after birth. In addition to his work with the Nurses’ Health Study 3, Dr. Chavarro leads the nutritional component of the EARTH Study, an ongoing prospective cohort of couples undergoing infertility treatment at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

His work has resulted in over 200 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals. The American Society for Reproductive Medicine recognized Dr. Chavarro’s work in 2014 by awarding him the prestigious Ira and Ester Rosenwaks New Investigator Award. He currently serves as Chair of the Environment and Reproduction Special Interest Group and has previously served as Chair of the Nutrition Special Interest Group of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Dr. Chavarro also served as a member of the research working group for the National Action Plan for the Prevention, Detection and Management of Infertility for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as peer-reviewer for multiple NIH panels, and is currently a member of the editorial board of Fertility and Sterility and an Associate Editor of Human Reproduction.

Continuing Medical Education Accreditation and Credit Statement:

*This Live series activity, Restorative Reproductive Medicine Educational Webinar Series, from 09/27/2019 - 09/26/2020, has been reviewed and is acceptable for credit by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. When applying for the AMA PRA, Prescribed credit earned must be reported as Prescribed credit, not as Category 1.

Members of the College of Family Physicians of Canada are eligible to receive 1.0 Certified or Non-Certified Mainpro+ credits for participation in this activity due to reciprocal agreement with the American Academy of Family Physicians.

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AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the following organizations. Please contact them directly about how participants should report the credit they earned.

American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA)
National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board (AANPCB)
American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA)
American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM)
American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM)
American Board of Preventative Medicine (ABPM)
American Board of Urology (ABU)

Webinar recordings and slides are posted to iirrm.org for those that can't attend, however AAFP Prescribed Credit and AMA PRA Category 1 credits are only available for lecture webcasts viewed live, in real time.

23rd April 2020 @ 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM BST

Presented by: Jorge Chavarro, MD, ScD, PhD.

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