About Us
We are Rich and Carrie Greenberg. Rich is a pediatrician and Carrie is a stay-at-home mother. We adopted our daughter, Marla, in 2013 through the Utah Foster Care system. Marla had severe oral aversion and feeding difficulties for years. She was sustained through feedings via her gastric tube (G-tube). We discovered that there is a large population of children similar to Marla who have feeding difficulties. We have seen a large need here in Utah for more resources to support this population of children. Therefore, we decided to begin hosting the Pediatric Feeding Symposium. After the first year of the symposium, we organized a committee to help with this large project. Our first annual symposium was held in 2018 and had over 100 attendees. Our second symposium was in 2019 and included 10 local speakers from a variety of professions who work with children with feeding disorders.
Our goal is to build a community network for our pediatric feeding community. Parents dealing with Pediatric Feeding Disorders (PFD) can feel lost and alone. Medical providers do not always know who to reach out to for more support or whom to refer their patients to. Fortunately, there are a lot of resources locally and we believe in connecting these resources and providers for the benefit of children with feeding disorders.
Our Pediatric Feeding Symposium offers a chance for providers and caregivers to connect and gain valuable education with an opportunity to earn continuing education credits. We invite professionals from all disciplines working with children with feeding difficulties, including pediatricians, gastrointestinal physicians, practitioners, various therapists (OT, PT, Speech, Feeding), psychologists, and dietitians to attend this conference. We also invite parents, professors, teachers, instructors, school administrators, and students to attend. Our conference is for ANYONE who provides care for children with a pediatric feeding disorder.
We are glad you are here and hope you will connect with our Pediatric Feeding Community!
Pediatric Feeding Committee Members
SHAUN BANKS
Parent of Child with PFD
JAMIE BARKDULL
MS, OTR/L
NICKI BARRETT
MS, CCC-SLP, CNT
JANENE DAY
MS, CCC-SLP
CARRIE GREENBERG
Director & Founder
RICHARD GREENBERG
MD, Director & Founder
Tacie Hall
MS, RDN