Updates in Neonatal Nutrition and Gut Health

In conjunction with the 6th Annual Richard A. Ehrenkranz Neonatology Symposium at Yale School of Medicine, a group of neonatal nutrition and gut health scientists met to deliberate the best clinical approaches for neonatal nutrition and to determine an agenda for ongoing neonatal nutrition research.

The initial meeting, called "NeoNutGut 2025", was paired with the Ehrenkranz Neonatology Symposium and focused on neonatal nutrition with presentations from Daniel Robinson, MD, of Northwestern University; Amy Hair, MD, of Baylor School of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital; Aloka Patel, MD, of Rush University Medical Center; and Caty Buck,MD, MHS, of Yale School of Medicine.

NeoNutGut was developed by Sarah Taylor, MD, of Yale School of Medicine and Cami Martin, MD, MS, of Weill Cornell Medical Center and consisted of 13 hours of meetings with presentations of current evidence, ongoing studies, and deliberation as to how the available science informs clinical care. Most importantly, the group identified priority areas for future research with focus on the junior scientists who will lead these studies. NeoNutGut was sponsored by a Mead Johnson Educational Grant with additional support from Yale School of Medicine.

Representing more than 20 national academic centers from across the U.S., 30 in-person and 10 virtual attendees unanimously decided to start the forthcoming Society for Neonatal Nutrition and Lifelong Health to continue to advance neonatal nutrition and gut health research and to inform neonatal nutrition clinical practice.