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Nationality
  
Canadian

Name
  
Stanley Zlotkin

Field
  
Paediatrics

Profession
  
Professor


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Institutions
  
Hospital for Sick Children University of Toronto

Specialism
  
Paediatrics Public Health Sciences Nutritional Science

Research
  
Micronutrient malnutrition

Education
  
Doctor of Medicine, PhD

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Stanley Howard Zlotkin, CM OOnt is a Canadian Professor of Paediatrics, Public Health Sciences and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto.

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Life and career

Zlotkin holds an undergraduate degree in Ecology from the University of Toronto, a M.D. from McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario), and a Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Toronto. He also received a Paediatric Fellowship (FRCPC) from McGill University.

Achievements and honours

Zlotkin is a frequent consultant to governments and United Nations agencies on issues related to paediatric nutrition.

He received the H J Heinz Humanitarian Award in 2001 for his international contribution to the health of children globally, The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) awarded him the CIHR National Knowledge Translation Award in 2006 for "outstanding contributions to the health of children worldwide". In 2006 was awarded the Order of Canada for his contributions to improving the lives of children. In 2007 he received the International Ashoka Fellowship. In January 2016, he was awarded Order of Ontario.

Research interests

His research interests involve:

  • Examining mineral requirements and metabolism in premature and full-term infants, especially iron.
  • Clinical trials to treat and prevent iron and vitamin A deficiency.
  • Establishing evidence-based nutrition public policy.
  • He has active research in Canada (supported by Health Canada and the CDC), Ghana (supported by the CIHR), Mongolia (supported by World Vision and the H J Heinz Foundation) and India (supported by the CIHR). He is the inaugural Chief of the Centre for Global Child Heath at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto.

    References

    Stanley Zlotkin Wikipedia