Symposia and Award Lectures

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: 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: Sera L. Young, PhD – Northwestern University

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

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: 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

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

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: 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