Dana B. Steien, MD
Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
Director of Pediatric Nutrition
Dana B. Steien, MD
Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
Director of Pediatric Nutrition
Dr Dana Steien was born and raised in rural Wisconsin. Dana completed medical school and pediatric residency at Michigan State University. Her pediatric gastroenterology fellowship was at the University of Michigan. She completed an additional fellowship in pediatric clinical nutrition, at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
After training she returned to the University of Michigan and became the medical director of the Children’s Intestinal Rehabilitation Program, where she managed children with intestinal failure, on home parenteral nutrition.
In 2019, Dana joined the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where she has helped establish and lead the Pediatric Nutrition Support Hospital Service, as well as the out-patient nutrition support team.
Her areas of clinical interest have included iron deficiency, parenteral nutrition, intravenous fluids, and teaching learners how to assess growth and nutritional status in children.
Christina Ergler
Christina Ergler
PhD (Auckland) Honorary Associate Professor, School of Geography, University of Nottingham (UK) Human Environments Analysis Laboratory (HEAL) Fellow Western University (Canada) School of Geography
Christina Ergler is Associate Professor in the School of Geography at Otago. Her work is driven by a passion for creating just, sustainable and inclusive environments that enhance the quality of life of humans and non-humans.
Christina seeks to privilege the voices of marginalised groups to address the systemic structural inequities and broader social and environmental determinants of health/wellbeing/wellbecoming found in the everyday conditions and (on and offline) spaces in which people live, move, work, learn and play.
Ben Wheeler
Ben Wheeler
Prof. Ben Wheeler is an academic
Paediatric Endocrinologist and General Paediatrician working in the
Southern Region. He has a passion for diabetes technology and improving
the lives of people living with diabetes – both young and old.
Ben is
widely published in the diabetes and child health literature. His work is
highly collaborative and his team has multiple clinical trials in advanced
diabetes technology running at any one time.
More speakers to be announced shortly.
For all conference enquiries please contact: