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
Clinical and Translational Nutrition
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
Clinical and Translational Nutrition
Global and Public Health Nutrition
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
Clinical and Translational Nutrition
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
Global and Public Health Nutrition
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
Clinical and Translational Nutrition
Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/Metabolism
Chair: Cindy Davis, PhD – USDA Agricultural Research Service
Discussant: Krista Esslinger, MSc RD – Health Canada
Global and Public Health Nutrition
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
Clinical and Translational Nutrition
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
Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/Metabolism
Clinical and Translational Nutrition
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
Global and Public Health Nutrition
Moderator: Colby J. Vorland, PhD – Indiana University-Bloomington
Speaker: Gregory S. Shelness, PhD – NIH Center for Scientific Review
Career and Professional Development
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
Clinical and Translational Nutrition
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
Career and Professional Development
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
Career and Professional Development
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
Clinical and Translational Nutrition
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
Clinical and Translational Nutrition
Global and Public Health Nutrition
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