Full Educational Program

Chair: Jeffrey J. Zachwieja, PhD, FACSM – PepsiCo

Speaker: Kevin C. Maki – Midwest Biomedical Research/Center for Metabolic and Cardiovascular Health

Speaker: Julie Lovegrove, PhD – University of Reading

Speaker: Stephanie Earnshaw, PhD – RTI Health Solutions

Speaker: Sahar Ajabshir – Florida International University

Speaker: Harrison David Edward. Carter, BSc (Bris), MPhil (Cantab), MB ChB (c) – Need for Nutrition Education/Innovation Programme.

Speaker: Rachel Criswell, MD, MS – Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency

Speaker: Shue Huang – The Pennsylvania State University

Speaker: Joshua L. Hudson – Purdue University

Speaker: Yi-Wen Jiang, Bachelor’ degree in Medicine – Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Speaker: Anna R. Kahkoska, BS – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Speaker: Carli A. Liguori, MS, RDN – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Speaker: Harriet Okronipa – University of California, Davis

Speaker: Alissa Smethers, MS, RD, LDN – Pennsylvania State University

Speaker: Anita Subramanian, MS – The Pennsylvania State University

Chair: Beatrice Rogers – Tufts University

Co-Chair: Sunny S. Kim, PhD – International Food Policy Research Institute

Speaker: Sunny S. Kim, PhD – International Food Policy Research Institute

Speaker: Christine Stewart, MPH, PhD – UC Davis

Speaker: Phuong H. Nguyen – International Food Policy Research Institute

Speaker: Amanda S. Wendt – Institute of Public Health, University of Heidelberg

Speaker: Marianne V. Santoso – Cornell University

Speaker: Sheela S. Sinharoy, PhD – Emory University

Speaker: Aregash Samuel Hafebo, M.Sc – Ethiopian Public Health Institute

Chair: Shivani Sahni, PhD – IFAR, Hebrew SeniorLife, Harvard Medical School

Co-Chair: Andrea Deierlein – New York University

Speaker: Fang Fang Zhang – Tufts University

Speaker: Alexandra Bédard – INAF, Laval University

Speaker: Natasha Tasevska – Arizona State University

Speaker: Kyung Won Lee, PhD – Korea National Institute of Health

Speaker: Rachel Gibson – Imperial College London / King's College London

Speaker: Shue Huang – The Pennsylvania State University

Speaker: Nancy Lopez Olmedo – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chair: Sharon A. Ross, PhD, MPH – National Institutes of Health

Co-Chair: Hassan S. Dashti, PhD, R.D. – Massachusetts General Hospital

Speaker: Joe L. Webb – Iowa State

Speaker: Zhi Chai – Pennsylvania State University

Speaker: Diego Hernandez-Saavedra, PhD Candidate – UIUC

Speaker: Mandana Pahlavani, Ph.D. – Texas Tech University

Speaker: Martin Kohlmeier, MD PhD – UNC Nutrition Research Institute

Speaker: Yu-Han Chiu, MD, ScD – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Speaker: Chao-Qiang Lai – USDA ARS

Speaker: Kate J. Bowen, B.S. – The Pennsylvania State University

Chair: April J. Stull, PhD, RD

Co-Chair: Sonia Vega-López – Arizona State University

Speaker: Traci A. Bekelman, PhD, MPH – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Speaker: Carol L. Wagner – Medical University of South Carolina

Speaker: Susan L. Meacham, PhD, RD – Via College of Osteopathic Medicine-VA

Speaker: Anna H. Grummon, MSPH – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Speaker: Uriyoan Colon-Ramos – George Washington University

Speaker: Viridiana Luna, B.S. – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Speaker: Zeynep Begum Kalyoncu, MS, PhDc – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Chair: Catherine M. Champagne, PhD, RDN, LDN, FAND, FADA, FTOS – Pennington Biomedical Research Center

Co-Chair: Moriah P. Bellissimo, MS, RD – Emory University

Speaker: Kevin C. Klatt, BA – Cornell University, Division of Nutritional Sciences

Speaker: Jose humberto Trevino-villarreal, MD, PhD, C. Cy – harvard school of public health

Speaker: Heli Xu – Rutgers University

Speaker: Jose Rodriguez-Morato, PhD – Universitat Pompeu Fabra / Jean Mayer USDA HNRCA

Speaker: Nirupa R. Matthan – Tufts University

Speaker: Janie Allaire – Laval University

Speaker: Daniel Tomé, PhD – AgroParisTech

Speaker: Pan Zhuang, PhD student – College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University

Speaker: Simin N. Meydani, DVM, PhD – Tufts University

Speaker: Margherita Cantorna, PhD – Pennsylvania State University

Speaker: Melinda A. Beck, PhD – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Speaker: A. Catharine Ross, PhD – Pennsylvania State University

Speaker: Robert M. Russell, MD – Tufts University

Speaker: Shiriki Kumanyika, PhD, MPH – Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health

Speaker: Stephanie A. Atkinson, PhD, DSc – McMaster University

Speaker: Mark David Richards, PhD – KRC Research

Speaker: Sally Squires – Weber Shandwick

Speaker: Eileen Kennedy, DSc – Tufts University

Chair: Daniel W. Sellen, PhD – The Joannah & Brian Lawson Centre for Child Nutrition

Co-Chair: Laurie Nommsen-Rivers – University of Cincinnati College of Allied Health Sciences

Speaker: Meghan B. Azad, PhD – University of Manitoba

Speaker: Michelle McGuire, PhD – Washington State University

Speaker: Courtney L. Meehan, PhD – Washington State University

Speaker: Deborah L. O'Connor, PhD, RD – University of Toronto

Speaker: Andrew Green, PhD – UC Berkeley Career

Speaker: J. Thomas Brenna, PhD – University of Texas at Austin

Speaker: Melanie Plourde, PhD – Université de Sherbrooke

Speaker: Peter Jones, PhD – Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutrace

Chair: Niyati Parekh – New York University College of Global Public Health

Co-Chair: Lisa M. Troy, PhD – University of Massachusetts

Speaker: Filippa Juul, MSc – College of Global Public Health, New York University

Speaker: Jennifer M. Poti, PhD – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Speaker: Jacqueline Litvak – New York University

Speaker: Lilia S. Pedraza, MsC – Univeristy of North Carolina at Chapel HIll

Speaker: Hyunju Kim – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Speaker: Katerina S. Stylianou, MSc – Univarsity of Michigan

Speaker: Afnan A. Al-Ibrahim, B.S., M.S. – University of Maryland College Park

Speaker: Dayeon Shin, PhD, RD – Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition, Syracuse University

Chair: Ock K. Chun, PhD – University of Connecticut

Co-Chair: Melissa D. Olfert, DrPH, RDN – West Virginia University

Speaker: Lorrene D. Ritchie – Nutrition Policy Institute, University of California

Speaker: Ada L. Garcia, PhD RNut – University of Glasgow

Speaker: Jessie P. Boukarim – University of Rhode Island- Community Nutrition and Childhood Obesity Prevention Lab

Speaker: Rachel Novotny, PhD RDN – University of Hawaii at Manoa

Speaker: Buyun Liu – University of Iowa

Speaker: Jodi Stookey – San Francisco Department of Public Health

Speaker: Melissa D. Olfert, DrPH, RDN – West Virginia University

Speaker: Gilda Zacarias, MSc – Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro

Speaker: Gertraud Maskarinec, MD, PhD – University of Hawaii Cancer Center

Speaker: Nicholas J. Kassebaum, MD – Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Speaker: Donald Warne, MD, MPH – North Dakota State University

Speaker: Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, DrPH, MPH – Tufts University

Chair: Jay J. Cao – Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center

Speaker: Geoffrey Y. Sasaki – The Ohio State University

Speaker: Mahrou Sadri – University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Speaker: Karin B. Michels, ScD, PhD – UCLA Department of Epidemiology

Speaker: Sarai Vasquez-Reyes – UNAM/INCMNSZ

Speaker: Mª Carmen Garcia-Parrilla, Prof – Universidad de Sevilla

Speaker: Cara J. Westmark, PhD – University of Wisconsin-Madison

Speaker: Giulio M. Pasinetti – Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Chair: Nana Gletsu Miller, PhD

Co-Chair: Christine Pfeiffer – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Speaker: Buyun Liu – University of Iowa

Speaker: Qi Dai, M.D., Ph.D. – Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Speaker: David M. Frazer, PhD – QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute

Speaker: Olivia Laura. van der Reijden – ETH Zürich

Speaker: Nicole U. Stoffel – Department of Health Science and Technology. Laboratory of Human Nutrition. ETH Zürich. Switzerland.

Speaker: Amat Bah, MSc, BSc, Dip. Public Health – MRCG Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Speaker: Momodou Wuri Jallow, BSc – MRC Unit The Gambia

Chair: Kartik Shankar – Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center

Co-Chair: Veronique Demers-Mathieu – Oregon State University

Speaker: Kartik Shankar – Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center

Speaker: Brietta M. Oaks – University of Rhode Island

Speaker: Caroline J. Moore, BSc (Hons) Human Nutrition – McMaster University

Speaker: Nathalie J. Gharibeh, MSc, LD (Lebanon) – McGill University

Speaker: William Yakah, Mr. – Michigan State University

Speaker: Thais P. Rangel – Nutritional Epidemiology Observatory, Rio de Janeiro Federal University

Speaker: Jing Xue – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Speaker: Bethany M. Henrick, PhD – Evolve Biosystems

Chair: Richard D. Mattes – Purdue University

Speaker: Robert Margolskee, MD, PhD – Monell Chemical Senses Center

Speaker: Anthony Sclafani, PhD – Brooklyn College of CUNY

Speaker: John McLaughlin, BSc (Hons), MB ChB (Hone), PhD, FRCP – University of Manchester

Speaker: Teresa A. Davis, PhD – Baylor College of Medicine

Speaker: Jack Odle, PhD – North Carolina State University

Speaker: Dennis M. Bier, MD – Baylor College of Medicine

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

Moderator: Tamar Haspel

Panelist: Allison L. Van Eeneennaam, PhD – University of California, DavisOne Shields Avenue

Panelist: Gerald F. Combs, PhD – Cornell University

Panelist: Nancy Kavazanjian – Hammer & Kavazanjian

Panelist: Sylvia Rowe, MA – SR Strategy

Speaker: Debra Behrens, Dr. Debra Behrens – UC Berkeley Career Center

Speaker: Judy Blumenthal – Montgomery College

Chair: Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, PhD – Yale University

Co-Chair: Grace Namirembe, MPH – Tufts University

Speaker: Nandita Perumal – University of Toronto

Speaker: Grace Namirembe, MPH – Tufts University

Speaker: Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, PhD – Yale University

Speaker: Sant-Rayn Pasricha – Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Speaker: Christopher Sudfeld, ScD – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Speaker: Susan T. Mayne, PhD – U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Chair: Chwan-Li Shen – Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Chair: Philip C. Calder, PhD – University of Southampton

Speaker: Dayong Wu, MD, PhD – Tufts University

Speaker: Robert JM Brummer, MD, PhD – Örebro University

Speaker: Kelly A. Tappenden, PhD, RD – University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Speaker: Maryellen Molyneaux, BS – Natural Marketing Institute

Chair: Andrew M. Prentice, PhD – London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Speaker: Lars Bode, PhD – University of California, San Diego

Speaker: Michelle McGuire, PhD – Washington State University

Speaker: Andrew M. Prentice, PhD – London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Speaker: Sharon M. Donovan – University of Illinois, Urbana

Speaker: Namanjeet Ahluwalia, PhD – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Chair: Rachel Scherr – University of California, Davis

Co-Chair: Anna M. Jones, PhD – University of California Davis, Department of Nutrition, Center for Nutrition in Schools

Speaker: Deborah S. Fetter, PhD – University of California, Davis

Speaker: Harish B. Ganguri, M.S. Computer Science – Southern Illinois University Carbondale (where work was completed) and Kronys Inc.

Speaker: Stephanie Tammen, PhD – Tufts University

Speaker: Robert J. Bensley, PhD, MCHES – Western Michigan University

Speaker: Sneha Mani, Masters – International Food Policy Research Institute

Speaker: Jinan Banna, PhD, RD, CDN – University of Hawaii at Manoa

Chair: Michelle Cardel, PhD, MS, RD, FTOS – University of Florida

Speaker: Courtney M. Peterson, PhD, MSc, MA, MASt – University of Alabama at Birmingham

Chair: Chao-Qiang Lai – USDA ARS

Co-Chair: V. Saroja Voruganti, PhD – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Speaker: Gitte Ravn-Haren, PhD – National Food Institute

Speaker: Jessie B. Hoffman, MS – University of Kentucky

Speaker: Shatha Hammad, Bsc, MSc – Department of Food & Human Nutritional Sciences, University of Manitoba, Richardson Centre for Functional Foods & Nutraceuticals

Speaker: Anna Boronat Rigol – IMIM - Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute

Speaker: Dana M. DeSilva, BS – University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Speaker: Meriah Schoen – Emory University

Chair: Kevin Fritsche – University of Missouri, Columbia

Co-Chair: Victoria J. Vieira-Potter, PhD – University of Missouri, Columbia

Speaker: Lijun Li, BS – Tufts University

Speaker: Munkyong Pae, PhD – Chungbuk National University

Speaker: Kathleen Walter – North Carolina State University

Speaker: Miranda J. Crouch – East Carolina University, Brody School of Medicine

Speaker: Debra Behrens, Dr. Debra Behrens – UC Berkeley Career Center

Speaker: Judy Blumenthal – Montgomery College

Speaker: Joanne F. Guthrie, PhD, MPH, RD – Economic Research Service, USDA

Speaker: Aryeh D. Stein, PhD – Emory University

Chair: Lisa Jahns – USDA-ARS Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center

Co-Chair: Zach Conrad, PhD, MPH – USDA, ARS

Speaker: Jayne Woodside, MA (Hons); PhD – Queen's University Belfast

Chair: Vijay Hegde – Texas Tech University

Co-Chair: Danielle E. Haslam, MA MS – Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts

Speaker: Alyssa M. Burns – University of Florida

Speaker: Kelli A. Lytle, PhD RD – Mayo Clinic

Speaker: Hon Ting Tommy Wong – The University of Hong Kong

Speaker: Indika Edirisinghe, PhD – Center for Nutrition Research, Institute for Food Safety and Health, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA

Speaker: Coby Eelderink – UMCG

Speaker: Huicui Meng – Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University

Speaker: Richard D. Mattes – Purdue University

Speaker: Kelly A. Higgins – Purdue University

Chair: Jerusha Nelson-Peterman – Framingham State University

Co-Chair: Maria Koleilat, DrPH, MPH – California State University, Fullerton

Speaker: Baibing Mi, Phd candidate – Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistic, School of Public Health,Health Science Center, Xi’an jiaotong University

Speaker: Laura Adubra – UMR 204 Nutripass, IRD-UM-Supagro Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Montpellier, France

Speaker: Zeina Jamaluddine, MSc – American University of Beirut

Speaker: Dripta Roy Choudhury – NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION

Speaker: Teresia Mbogori, PhD – Ball State University

Speaker: Stephanie Nicole. Steeves – Arizona State University

Speaker: Rebecca Seguin, PhD, CSCS – Cornell University

Speaker: Mary J. Scourboutakos, PhD – Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Chair: George Wang – Kansas State University

Co-Chair: Richard C. Baybutt, Professor – East Carolina University

Speaker: Sneha Sundaram – ARS USDA

Speaker: Chi Guo – Department of Nutrition, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and Department of Molecular Medicine, Hunan University, Changsha, Hunan, China

Speaker: Philkyung Shin – CHA university

Speaker: Melissa M. Melough – University of Connecticut

Speaker: Elizabeth L. Barry, PhD – Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth

Speaker: Niklas Aardema – Utah State University

Speaker: Maryam S. Farvid – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Speaker: Jia Ning Syu – Department of Nutrition, China Medical University, Taiwan

Chair: Kate J. Claycombe-Larson – USDA-ARS-PA Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center

Co-Chair: Naima Moustaid-Moussa, PhD – Texas Tech University

Speaker: Lindsey A. Muir, PhD – University of Michigan

Speaker: Arion Kennedy, PHD – Vanderbilt University

Speaker: Susan K. Fried, PhD – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Speaker: Iurii Koboziev, PhD – Texas Tech University

Chair: Michelle Cardel, PhD, MS, RD, FTOS – University of Florida

Co-Chair: Shilpa N. Bhupathiraju – Channing Division of Network Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Speaker: Anna R. Kahkoska, BS – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Speaker: Yun Li, MD, PhD – North China University of Science and Technology

Speaker: Andrew Odegaard – University of California, Irvine

Speaker: Danxia Yu, PhD – Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Speaker: Ju-Sheng Zheng – University of Cambridge

Speaker: Youfa Wang – Ball State University

Speaker: Veronique Gingras, RD, PhD – Harvard Medical School - Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute

Speaker: Tássia do Vale Cardoso Lopes – Federal University of Uberlandia

Chair: Sarah A. Johnson, PhD, RDN – Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Colorado State University

Co-Chair: Sheau C. Chai, PhD, RDN – University of Delaware

Speaker: Sara Y. Oikawa – McMaster University

Speaker: Gloria Salazar – Florida State University

Speaker: Alison Coates – University of South Australia

Speaker: Diane L. McKay – Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy

Speaker: Hilary J. Bethancourt, PhD, MPH – University of Washington

Speaker: Bahram H. Arjmandi – Florida State University

Speaker: Georgia Colleluori – Baylor College of Medicine

Speaker: John Courtney, PhD – American Society for Nutrition

Speaker: Sue Shapses, PhD – Rutgers University

Speaker: Yuming Chen – Sun Yat-sen University

Speaker: Wayne Campbell, PhD – Purdue University

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

Speaker: Ying Gao – Chinese Academy of Science

Speaker: Xiang Gao, PhD – Penn State

Speaker: Minghua Tang – University of Colorado Denver

Speaker: Dingbo Lin – Oklahoma State University

Speaker: Guoxun Chen – The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Chair: Crystal L. Levesque, PhD – South Dakota State University

Speaker: Timothy J. Wester, PhD – Massey University

Speaker: Robert E. Black, MD, MPH – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Speaker: John Lombardo

Chair: George Wang – Kansas State University

Chair: Aryeh D. Stein, PhD – Emory University

Speaker: Catherine A. Geissler, PhD – Kings College of London

Chair: Lisa Spence, PhD, RD – Tate & Lyle

Speaker: Massimo Marzorati, PhD – ProDigest

Speaker: Matthias Van Hul – Université catholique de Louvain

Speaker: Kirstie Canene-Adams, PhD – Tate & Lyle