Full Schedule

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 – National Dairy Council

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

Speaker: Hannah D. Holscher, PhD, RD – University of Illinois at 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 – Jean Mayer USDA HNRCA at 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, Master – 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, RD – University of South Carolina

Speaker: Shauna M. Downs, PhD – Rutgers School of Public Health

Speaker: Winnie Bell, PhD, MPH – 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, MPH – 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 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