Lettuce Talk Vegan, Pretty Peas: Ensuring Healthy Growth & Development on Plant-Based Diets

Tara L. (Harris) Holloran, MD

Medical Director, Pediatric Center of Hope

Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics

Division of Child Protection Programs

Department of Pediatrics

Indiana University School of Medicine

Charles P.B. Vanderpool, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics

Associate Division Director, Pediatric Gastroenterology

Medical Director, Nutrition Support and Intestinal Rehabilitation

Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition

Department of Pediatrics

Indiana University School of Medicine

Objectives:

1.       Attendees will be able to describe the differences between vegetarian, vegan, and plant-based diets.

2.       Attendees will delineate key nutritional concerns to address with vegan and vegetarian families.  

3.       Attendees will understand why vegan/vegetarian families from underrepresented minority groups may feel alienated by the larger plant-based community so may benefit from additional support from their pediatrician.