Individuals who have experienced chaotic lives in childhood are more likely to experience difficulties in adulthood. For example, they are more likely to suffer physical and mental ill health and fail in education and employment.

Scientific studies have shown that neglect in infancy can have profound biological effects on the brain and the body's responses to external events.

Support for parents who have not experienced nurturing childhoods themselves can transform the outlook for children in those families. Programmes aimed at providing such family support should be widely available.

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Sir Harry Burns is Professor of Global Public Health at Strathclyde University and was previously Chief Medical Officer for Scotland. He graduated in Medicine at the University of Glasgow and went on to become Consultant Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary in Glasgow. Working with patients in the east end of the city gave him an insight into the complex inter-relationships between social and economic status and illness.
In 2011, he received a Knighthood in the Queen´s Birthday Honours and in 2014 was awarded a lifetime achievement award by the Scottish Government and the Scottish Parliament for Public Service.

The ‘Ordinary Life' movement which drove reform in the late seventies is still underway, with many children and adults even now being denied the safety and intimacy of a secure home environment. Focusing on the right to a home and family life for people with developmental learning disabilities and the attitudinal and practical barriers so many face in achieving a true home, the question being considered is why hasn't the closure of long-stay institutions both in the UK and abroad delivered all the promises of care in the community policies?

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Professor Sheila the Baroness Hollins is an independent cross bench life peer in the House of Lords, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry of Disability at St George's University of London, and Honorary Professor of Spirituality, Theology and Health in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Durham. She chairs the Board of Beyond Words, a not for profit spin out social enterprise.

Dr Hollins has been a clinical specialist, teacher, researcher and policy maker in mental health and has published over 200 scientific papers, books and accessible patient materials. In 1989 she founded the long running Books Beyond Words series of picture books for young people and adults with intellectual disabilities, which includes titles on health and care, criminal justice, mental health and counselling. She currently chairs the Scientific Advisory Committee at the Centre for Child Protection of the Institute of Psychology of the Pontifical Gregorian University. In 2014 Pope Francis appointed her for a four-year term to the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors in Rome.

Baroness Hollins has been President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (2005-2008), President of the British Medical Association (2012-2013) and Chair of the Board of Science of the British Medical Association (2013- 2016). She is currently President of the College of Occupational Therapists in the U.K.

She has received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Durham, London, Sheffield, Bath and Worcester in the UK and from the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne as well as the Bronze medal of the Institute of St Martin in Florence for her work in the disability field. She is an Honorary Fellow of the Colleges of Medicine in South Africa, a Fellow of the City Literary Institute in London, and recently became the 2016 FRED forum leadership hero.

We have decades of increasingly good quality nutrition research but are challenged today by increasing rates of food related illness.  We know what works but have not been able to translate the research into practice.  The work at the Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine at Tulane University seeks to create a model for translation that makes sense for healthcare professionals and the community in a way that makes sense and meets people where they live — great food that just happens to be great for you.

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Dr. Harlan is a board certified internist primarily practicing at the Tulane University Multispecialty Clinic in Downtown New Orleans.  He has had a path to medicine that brings with it an interest in nutrition and its profound effect on our health. Dr. Tim's love of food began as a teenager working in the restaurant business. Starting as a dishwasher, he worked his way up to managing his first restaurant by the age of eighteen. Along the way he learned cooking from many fine chefs, and at age twenty-two opened his own restaurant: a small country-French café.

Three years operating Le Petit Café—creating menus, being a chef & teaching cooking classes—were challenging and creative. Closing the restaurant to return to school was an important turning point. Dr. Harlan originally intended to pursue a degree in hotel and restaurant management, but events led him toward medicine and the decision to become a physician.

After finishing an undergraduate degree at Emory University in Atlanta, Dr. Harlan went on to study at Emory Univ. School of Medicine. Working as a caterer throughout school, he continued to be involved with food and cooking but noticed a lack of knowledge in the medical field about eating healthy and eating well. Neither patients nor health care providers understood much about a healthful diet.
Patients, it seemed, were usually told not what they could eat but, rather, what they could not eat.

During medical school, Dr. Harlan wrote It's Heartly Fare - a food manual for patients with cardiovascular disease. It is published by Pritchett & Hull Associates, with the fifth edition going to press in the fall of 2006. His latest book, Hand on Heart, is published by ENDpapers publishing.

Dr. Gourmet has been an on air consultant to the TV Food Network show Cooking Thin. He is also a host on the DIY network show, AskDIY, with segments airing on the DIY network as well as in syndication. In 2002 The Dr. Gourmet Show, which aired on regional public television, won an Emmy(R) award.

In addition to his clinical duties Dr. Harlan serves as the Medical Director for the Tulane University Business Group faculty practice plan and provides support to the section in his role as Associate Chief of General Internal Medicine of Outpatient Programs.  He is also involved in the Foundations of Medicine class providing lectures to first year medical students on nutrition.

HEALTHY FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
Seen through the eyes of healthcare professionals - why it's so important to encourage and nurture positive, healthy family relationships.  We will focus on how nurses, midwives and health visitors in particular support mothers and the family ideal, raising questions about the challenges faced and how best to respond to them.
The session will explore how we equate health and wellbeing in the UK and worldwide, professionals as positive role models and the need to respect human dignity and empower families by listening and working alongside them.

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Elizabeth Robb is an independent healthcare consultant and Non Executive Director. She was Chief Executive of the Florence Nightingale Foundation for 7 years until March 2017.  Previously she worked as Director of Nursing and Deputy Chief Executive at North West London Hospitals NHS Trust.  Elizabeth is a Registered Nurse and Midwife and retains current registration in both disciplines.  She has an Advanced Diploma in Midwifery, is a Registered Midwife Teacher, and holds an honours degree in Management and a Masters Degree in Nursing.

In June 2008 she was made a visiting Professor in Leadership and Nursing Practice at London Southbank University. She was conferred an honorary doctorate from Thames Valley University, now The University of West London, in November 2009.  In 2010 Elizabeth became a Non Executive Director of NHS Professionals and Chairs the Board Clinical Governance Committee.

Elizabeth was awarded an OBE for Services to Nursing and Midwifery in June 2015 and in September 2015 was presented with an honorary doctorate from Plymouth University in recognition of her services to nursing and midwifery.

She is widely published on patient safety, leadership & care pathways.