Neonatal & Pediatric Nutrition
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Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness
General Specialties:
Nutrition and FoodKeywords/Search Terms:
Failure to Thrive, Malnutrition, TPN, Parenteral Nutrition, Tubefeed, Infant Formula, Formula Mixing, Breast Milk, Refeeding Syndrome, Thiamine, Iron, Zinc, Copper, B12, Nutrient Deficiency, Rickets, Osteopenia, Food Allergy, Heavy Metals, DieticianEducation:
MS Nutrition, Case Western Reserve University; BS Nutrition, University of ConnecticutYears in Practice:
19Additional Information
Priscilla Barr has been a Registered Dietitian for 19 years, specializing in neonatal, pediatric and obstetrical nutrition. During her career she has worked at top US teaching hospitals, including NYU Langone Health and currently New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell. Priscilla has extensive experience in pediatric nutrition, especially in infancy, toddlerhood and pregnancy. Her responsibilities include evaluating the growth and nutritional status of infants and children, and coming up with nutrition care plans for them including the management of parenteral nutrition (TPN), breastfeeding and infant formula, tube-feeding, specialized diets, as well as vitamin and mineral supplementation . Patients are followed up after discharge in the neonatal follow up clinic where infant and toddler nutrition education is further discussed. She has also cross covers obstetrical patients teaching them about pregnancy nutrition, and the management of diabetes and hyperemesis in pregnancy. Priscilla is equipped to diagnose nutritional status, including malnutrition and vitamin/mineral deficiencies via a patients nutritional history, physical assessment, and laboratory values. Priscilla is has given lectures on neonatal nutrition in both live conferences and webinars, including Dietitian Central and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She is also highly involved in quality improvement in the institutions she works in and is involved in neonatal nutrition research. Her work has been shown at conferences including the Vermont Oxford Network and Pediatric Academic Societies, has been published in peer reviewed journals, and won several awards including the Healthcare Association of New York State – HANYS Award for Quality and Safety (2014), and the New York State Perinatal Quality Collaborative , Quality and Safety Award (2021) Expert witness experience includes infant formula, baby food, heavy metals, breast milk, and malnutrition/failure to thrive. Additional experience in TPN/parenteral nutrition, tubefeedings, breast milk, formula mixing, refeeding syndrome, osteopenia of prematurity, rickets, and nutrient deficiencies such as B12, thiamine, zinc, iron, and copper, heavy metals, lead, mercury, and arsenic.