Prof Michael K. Georgieff, MD, holds the position of the Martin Lenz Harrison Land Grant Chair in Paediatrics. He is a Professor of Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Developmental Psychology, and a Founder and Director of the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain at the University of Minnesota. He received his MD from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He served his internship, residency and neonatal fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a fellowship in neonatology at the University of Minnesota. In addition to caring for patients on the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Dr. Georgieff was the Director of the NICU Follow-up Program and the University of Minnesota for 40 years. He has been continuously funded in the field of iron and brain development by the National Institutes of Health for 35 years and has published over 300 scientific articles. He advises the American Academy of Paediatrics, the National Institutes of Health and UNICEF on nutrition and early child development.