Live Sessions & Events

Chair: Paul M. Coates, PhD – American Society for Nutrition

Speaker: Holly Nicastro, PhD, MPH – National Institutes of Health

Speaker: Bruce Y. Lee, MD, MBA – PHICOR (Public Health Informatics, Computational, and Operations Research)

Speaker: Eran Segal, PhD – Weizmann Institute of Science

Panelist: Jamy D. Ard, MD – Wake Forest School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Prevention

Panelist: Sarah L. Booth, PhD – Tufts University

Chair: Thomas Biederer, PhD – USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University

Chair: Aline Andres, PhD, RD – Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center

Chair: Karyn Onyeneho, PhD, MS – ASN, Minority and Diversity Affairs Committee

Chair: Ashley M. Toney, PhD – UTHealth Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health - El Paso, TX

Speaker: Karyn Onyeneho, PhD, MS – ASN, Minority and Diversity Affairs Committee

Speaker: Latrice Landry, PhD, MS, MSC – Harvard Medical School

Speaker: Barbara W. Harrison, MS, CGC – Howard University

Chair: David S. Ludwig, MD, PhD – Boston Children’s Hospital

Chair: Christopher P. Duggan, MD, PhD – Boston Children’s Hospital

Speaker: Carlos Augusto Monteiro, MD, PhD – University of São Paulo

Speaker: Arne Vernon Astrup, MD, DMSc – Novo Nordisk Foundation

Panelist: Susan B. Roberts, PhD – Tufts University

Chair: Deshanie Rai – OmniActive Health Technologies

Chair: Ashley M. Toney, PhD – UTHealth Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health - El Paso, TX

Speaker: Liliana Aguayo-Markes, PhD, MPH – Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health

Speaker: Jamy D. Ard, MD – Wake Forest School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Prevention

Moderator: April J. Stull, PhD, RDN, FAND – Baylor University

Chair: Jessica Cooperstone, PhD – The Ohio State University

Speaker: Michael H. Green, PhD – Penn State University

Speaker: Veronica Lopez Teros, PhD – Universidad de Sonora

Speaker: Nancy E. Moran, PhD – Baylor College of Medicine

Chair: Daniel Raiten – Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

Chair: John W. Finley, PhD – USDA Agricultural Research Service

Speaker: Kristie Ebi, PhD, MPH – University of Washington

Chair: Lee M. Margolis, Ph.D. – U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine

Speaker: Sarah E. Berry, RD – King's College London

Chair: Nancy R. Rodriguez, PhD – University of Connecticut

Speaker: Graeme Close, BSc, PhD – Liverpool John Moores University

Chair: Dennora A D George, PhD Nutr. (current), MSc Sports Science, BSc Nutr. – NCRHA/ The UWI

Chair: Michael Hays, MS – University of Mississippi

Chair: Sera L. Young, PhD – Northwestern University

Speaker: Edward A. Frongillo, Jr., PhD (he/him/his) – University of South Carolina

Chair: Charlene Van Buiten, PhD – Colorado State University

Speaker: Arpita Basu, PhD, MPH, RD – University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Speaker: Hea Jin Park, Ph.D – University of Georgia

Speaker: Chwan-Li Shen, PhD – Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Chair: Christopher J. Cifelli, PhD – National Dairy Council

Speaker: Juan E. Andrade Laborde, PhD – University of Florida

Speaker: Christina Berberich, MPH, RD – Bobbie

Speaker: Nicole Litwin, PhD, RD – Crohn's & Colitis Foundation

Speaker: Barbara O. Schneeman, PhD – University of California Davis

Chair: Rana Chehab, PhD, MPH, RD – Kaiser Permanente Northern California

Chair: Jillian M. Joyce, PhD, RD – Oklahoma State University

Chair: Alexandra L. MacMillan Uribe, PhD, RDN – Texas A&M AgriLife Research

Chair: Diana C. Pacyga, B.S. – Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Michigan State University

Chair: Ashley M. Toney, PhD – UTHealth Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health - El Paso, TX

Chair: Nadeeja N. Wijayatunga, MBBS, MPhil, PhD – Department of Nutrition and Hospitality Management, University of Mississippi

Chair: Yiying Zhao, B.S – Purdue University

Chair: Mitch Kanter, PhD – Alliance for Potato Research & Education (APRE)

Speaker: Nirupa R. Matthan, PhD – Tufts University

Speaker: Mindy A. Patterson, PhD, RDN – Texas Woman's University

Chair: Allison L. Unger, PhD (she/her/hers) – National Dairy Council

Co-Chair: Dana Engel Gerstein, MPH, RD – National Dairy Council

Speaker: Hannah D. Holscher, PhD, RD, PhD, RD – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Speaker: Emma L. Feeney, PhD – University College Dublin

Speaker: Arne Vernon Astrup, MD, DMSc – Novo Nordisk Foundation

Moderator: Moises Torres-Gonzalez, PhD – National Dairy Council

Panelist: Hari Meletharayil, PhD – National Dairy Council

Chair: Simon Liu, PhD – Agricultural Research Service, USDA

Moderator: Pamela Starke-Reed, PhD – Agricultural Research Service, USDA

Speaker: Alice H. Lichtenstein, DSc (she/her/hers) – JM USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University

Panelist: Andrew W. Brown, PhD – University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Panelist: Maria Godoy – NPR Science

Panelist: Sally Squires, MS, MS – Former Nationally Syndicated Columnist, The Washington Post

Chair: Petra Klassen Wigger, PhD – Nestlé Research and Development

Speaker: Michael J. Gibney, MA MSc PhD – University College Dublin

Speaker: Carmen I. Moraru, PhD – Department of Food Science, Cornell University

Speaker: Barbara J. Rolls, PhD – The Pennsylvania State University

Speaker: Ian A. Macdonald, PhD – Nestle Research

Chair: Joshua W. Miller, PhD (he/him/his) – Department of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University

Speaker: Jim Ray, PhD – The Neurodegeneration Consortium MD Anderson Cancer Center

Speaker: Vilhelm Bohr, MD, PhD – National Institutes on Aging, National Institutes of Health

Speaker: Charalampos Tzoulis, MD, PhD – Haukeland University Hospital, University of Bergen, Norway

Chair: Cindy Davis, PhD – USDA Agricultural Research Service

Discussant: Krista Esslinger, MSc RD – Health Canada

Chair: James O. Hill, PhD – University of Alabama at Birmingham

Speaker: Gary D. Foster, PhD – WW International, Inc.

Speaker: Shilton E. Dhaver, B.S. – Joslin Diabetes Center

Speaker: Luotao Lin, MS – Purdue University

Chair: Ted Wilson, PhD – Winona State University and Chair, PhenHRIG

Co-Chair: Myron D. Gross, PhD – University of Minnesota Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology

Speaker: Colin D. Kay, PhD – North Carolina State University

Speaker: Andrew P. Neilson, PhD – North Carolina State University

Speaker: Christine E. Blake, PhD, MS, RD – University of South Carolina

Speaker: Shauna D. Downs, PhD, MS – Rutgers University, School of Public Health

Speaker: Winnie Bell, PhD, MPH – Intake - Center for Dietary Assessment at FHI Solutions

Speaker: Ashish Deo – GAIN

Speaker: Amos Laar, PhD – University of Ghana

Moderator: Colby J. Vorland, PhD – Indiana University-Bloomington

Speaker: Gregory S. Shelness, PhD – NIH Center for Scientific Review

Chair: Alyce D. Fly, PhD – Ball State University

Speaker: Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, DrPH – Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University

Speaker: Angela Odoms-Young, PhD – Cornell University

Speaker: Shannon Zenk, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN – National Institute of Nursing Research

Chair: Korry J. Hintze, PhD – Utah State University

Speaker: Holly Paden, MS – The Ohio State University

Speaker: Zihan Zhang, MS – The Ohio State University

Speaker: Sarah W. Light – The Ohio State University

Speaker: Ying Tang, PhD Candidate – University of Massachusetts Amherst, School of Public Health & Health Sciences, Department of Nutrition

Speaker: Giovanna P. Stefani, RD – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

Speaker: Madeline Hall, BS – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chair: Melissa Fuster, PhD – Tulane University

Chair: Kristen K. Hicks-Roof, PhD, RDN, LDN, CLC, FAND – University of North Florida

Chair: Nadine Mikati, PhD, RDN, LDN – Nova Southeastern University

Speaker: Dylan Bailey, MS, RD, FAND – Ketchum

Speaker: Michelle I. Cardel, PhD, MS, RD – WW International, Inc.; University of Florida

Speaker: Jessica Isaacs, RD, CSSD – LA Clippers

Speaker: Andrea (Andy) Mathis, MA RDN LD – Beautiful Eats & Things

Chair: Roschelle Heuberger, PhD, RD – Central Michigan University

Co-Chair: Sahar Ajabshir, PhD, MSc – Florida International University

Co-Chair: Cora Best, PhD, MHS, RDN – University of Washington School of Medicine

Speaker: Sarah Cantrell, MLIS – Duke University Medical Center Library & Archives, Duke University School of Medicine

Speaker: Kimberly Harp – University of Nebraska Medical Center

Speaker: John Usseglio, MPH – Columbia University Irving Medical Center

Chair: J. Philip Karl, PhD, RD – US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine

Speaker: Mary E. Kable, PhD – USDA-ARS/University of California, Davis

Speaker: Sarah E. Berry, RD – King's College London

Chair: Drew Sayer, PhD – University of Alabama at Birmingham

Speaker: Padma Maruvada, Ph.D – National Institute of Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Chair: Christopher P. Duggan, MD, PhD – Boston Children’s Hospital

Chair: Steven A. Abrams, MD – Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin

Speaker: Lauren Jalali, MS, RD, LDN – Boston Children’s Hospital

Speaker: John C. Wallingford, PhD – Nutrispectives, LLC

Chair: Andrew Shao, PhD – ChromaDex Corp

Speaker: Stephen A. Fleming, PhD – Traverse Science

Speaker: Nikki A. Ford, PhD – Hass Avocado Board

Speaker: Kristin Rubin, PhD – Kind International/MARS

Chair: Marianne Collard, PhD – Department of Dermatology, Boston University School of Medicine

Chair: Dima El-Halabi, MSc, RDN – College of Health Sciences, Abu Dhabi University

Chair: Sibylle Kranz, PhD RD – University of Virginia

Chair: Faten Hasan, B.S. – University of Virginia

Speaker: Joanne L. Slavin, PhD, RDN – University of Minnesota

Speaker: Julie M. Jones, PhD, CNS, CFS, Fellow of AACCI, IFT and ICC – St. Catherine University

Chair: Dallas R. Donohoe, PhD – The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Co-Chair: Jeremiah Johnson, PhD – The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Speaker: Leigh Greathouse, PhD, MPH, MS, RD – Baylor University

Chair: Paul M. Coates, PhD – American Society for Nutrition

Speaker: Martha A. Belury, PhD, RDN – The Ohio State University

Speaker: Barbara Lyle, PhD – B. Lyle Inc.

Speaker: Sarah L. Booth, PhD – Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University

Moderator: John Courtney, PhD – American Society for Nutrition

Chair: Sangwoon Choi, MD, PhD – Chaum Life Center, CHA University School of Medicine

Speaker: Marian L. Neuhouser, PhD, RD – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Speaker: Jung Eun Lee, ScD – Seoul National University

Chair: John W. Erdman, Jr., PhD – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Speaker: Adam Drewnowski, PhD – University of Washington

Speaker: Mark Messina, PhD, MS – Soy Nutrition Institute Global

Discussant: Robin McKinnon, PhD – FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

Moderator: Cheryl Anderson, MPH, PhD – University of California, San Diego

Chair: Robert Suskind, MD – California University of Science and Medicine

Speaker: Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, MBBS, PhD – Centre for Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children

Speaker: Rong Fan, MS – University of Massachusetts Amherst

Chair: Tracy G. Anthony, PhD – Rutgers University

Chair: Scot Kimball, PhD – Penn State University

Speaker: Heather J. Leidy, PhD – The University of Texas at Austin

Speaker: Donald K. Layman, PhD – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Speaker: Wayne W. Campbell, PhD – Purdue University

Speaker: Emily J. Arentson-Lantz, PhD – University of Texas Medical Branch

Speaker: Stuart M. Phillips, PhD – McMaster University

Speaker: Erin A. Posey, PhD – USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine

Speaker: Gavin Connolly, MA – Purdue University

Chair: Sarah Ohlhorst, MS, RD – American Society for Nutrition

Moderator: Christine Taylor, PhD – ASN Committee on Advocacy and Science Policy (CASP)

Panelist: Joel Berg, BA – Hunger Free America

Panelist: Jessica Fanzo, PhD – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Panelist: NiCole Keith, PhD – Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis

Panelist: Matthew Levy, MD, MPH – Medical College of Wisconsin

Panelist: Angela Odoms-Young, PhD – Cornell University

Chair: David Heber, MD, PhD – UCLA Center for Human Nutrition

Speaker: Adam Drewnowski, PhD – University of Washington

Speaker: Zhaoping Li, MD, PhD – Center for Human Nutrition, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Speaker: Frank B. Hu, MD, MPH, PhD – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Discussant: Sheila Erin Fleischhacker, PhD, JD, RDN – National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)

Discussant: Lisa Jahns, PhD, RD – USDA/NIFA

Discussant: Stephanie Morriss, PhD – USDA REE-NIFA Institute of Food Safety and Nutrition

Chair: Sara Wuehler, PhD, RD – Nutrition International

Speaker: Rosalind S. Gibson, MSPH (Nutrition), PhD (Nutrition) – University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Moderator: Umi Fahmida, PhD – SEAMEO RECFON, University of Indonesia

Chair: Courtney M. Peterson, PhD, MSc, MA, MS – University of Alabama at Birmingham

Speaker: Krista A. Varady, PhD – University of Illinois Chicago

Speaker: Valter Longo, PhD – University of Southern California

Speaker: Satchin Panda, PhD – Salk Institute of Biological Studies

Speaker: Kelsey Gabel, PhD, RD – University of Illinois Chicago

Chair: Heather L. Hutchins-Wiese, PhD, RD – Eastern Michigan University

Speaker: Christy C. Tangney, PhD, M.S. – Rush University Medical Center

Chair: Megan Lawless, PhD – University of Colorado- Anschutz Medical Campus

Chair: Semira Ortiz, PhD Candidate – Cornell University

Chair: Sumira Phatak, PhD – University of California, Irvine

Speaker: Michael Kelley, PhD, RD – Michael Kelley Nutrition Science Consulting

Speaker: Anna Thalacker-Mercer, PhD – University of Alabama at Birmingham

Speaker: Saurabh Mehta, MBBS, ScD – Cornell University

Speaker: Alexandra L. MacMillan Uribe, PhD, RDN – Texas A&M AgriLife Research

Chair: Bradley S. Ferguson, PhD – University of Nevada, Reno

Speaker: Rob Waterland, PhD – Baylor College of Medicine

Speaker: Kenneth E. Westerman, PhD – Massachusetts General Hospital

Chair: Victor W. Zhong, PhD – Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

Speaker: Tim D. Spector, MD – King's College London

Chair: Jack Odle, PhD – Current Developments in Nutrition

Moderator: Teresa A. Davis, PhD – Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine

Moderator: Katherine L. Tucker, PhD – University of Massachusetts Lowell

Speaker: Marian L. Neuhouser, PhD, RD – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Speaker: Kevin Schalinske, Ph.D. – Iowa State University

Speaker: Mark Manary, MD – Washington University in St. Louis

Panelist: Christopher P. Duggan, MD, PhD – Boston Children’s Hospital

Chair: Kristen E. Boyle, PhD – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Speaker: Susan Carnell, PhD – Johns Hopkins Medicine

Speaker: Laurie J. Goodyear, PhD – Joslin Diabetes Center and Harvard Medical School

Speaker: Kartik Shankar, PhD – University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus

Speaker: Alison K. Ventura, PhD – California Polytechnic State University

Chair: Maria Hershey, PhD – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Chair: Addison Konlan, BSc – Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)

Chair: Doron D. Kahana, MD, CPNS – Ambulatory Care Network, LA County

Speaker: Kevin C. Klatt, PhD, RD – Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine

Speaker: Nancy F. Krebs, MD, MS – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Speaker: David A. McCarron, MD – University of California, Davis Retired Oregon Health and Sciences University - Retired

Chair: Timothy J. Wester, PhD – Monogastric Research Centre, Massey University

Speaker: Emily E. Noble, PhD – University of Georgia

Chair: Martha S. Field, PhD – Cornell University

Speaker: Annie Lin, MS, CNS, LDN – Maryland University of Integrative Health

Speaker: Lydia Kersh, M.S. – Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

Speaker: Deepika Dinesh, MS – Center for Population Health, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Chair: Mary Ann Johnson, PhD – Association of Nutrition Departments and Programs