On Friday 12 January 2024, V.A.A. Beunders will defend the doctoral thesis titled: ‘Keep on Track: Monitoring growth and development in children born preterm and full-term‘.
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- Date
- Friday 12 Jan 2024, 10:30 - 12:00
- Type
- PhD defence
- Space
- Senate Hall
- Building
- Erasmus Building
- Location
- Campus Woudestein
Brief summary on the aim of the doctoral thesis:
The road from fetus to healthy adulthood is long, complex and full of challenges. Essential elements of a healthy childhood are growth, development and the absence of disease. These elements can in turn be influenced by both internal (i.e. genetics, hormones) and external (e.g. environment, lifestyle, parenting) factors. In this thesis, we focused on three important domains of pediatric development: 1) brain growth and neurodevelopment, 2) body growth, body composition and cardiometabolic health, and 3) sleep and 24-hour rhythms. We studied children born very preterm (<30 weeks of gestation) and full-term, from fetal life until school age.
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The public defence will begin exactly at 10.30 hrs. The doors will be closed once the public defence starts, latecomers may be able to watch on the screen outside. There is no possibility of entrance during the first part of the ceremony. Due to the solemn nature of the ceremony, we recommend that you do not take children under the age of 6 to the first part of the ceremony.
