Lindsay Ellsworth is an Assistant Professor in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan. Her research is focused on understanding the mechanisms of early life nutritional programming on body development and infant growth during lactation in order to identify new nutritional strategies for preterm infants. She is also involved in evaluating the compositional differences of mother’s own milk and donor human milk through the study of metabolomics, macronutrients, hormones, and bioactive factors and the impact on infant metabolism.

Human milk composition, infant growth, infant body composition, prematurity, metabolomics