Dr. Amy Hair, neonatologist and director of the neonatal nutrition program at Texas Children’s Hospital, was selected by the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) to receive the 2017 Samuel J. Fomon Young Physician Award.
This award is given to a physician within 10 years of completion of medical postdoctoral training for outstanding work in the general area of pediatric nutrition, infant growth or body composition.
Hair will be presented with the award at the ASN’s awards ceremony on April 23 in Chicago. Hair is nationally known for her leadership in advocating for human milk feeding for very low birth weight infants and has published numerous studies related to human milk feeding.