Preconference/Satellite
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
Global Nutrition
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
Nutritional Epidemiology
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
Nutrient-Gene Interactions
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
Community and Public Health Nutrition
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
Energy and Macronutrient Metabolism
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
Clinical and Translational Nutrition
Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/Metabolism
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
Global and Public Health Nutrition
Speaker: Mark David Richards, PhD – KRC Research
Speaker: Sally Squires – Weber Shandwick
Speaker: Eileen Kennedy, DSc – Tufts University
Career/Professional Development
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
Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/Metabolism
Speaker: Andrew Green, PhD – UC Berkeley Career
Career/Professional Development
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
Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/Metabolism
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
Nutritional Epidemiology
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
Community and Public Health Nutrition
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
Global and Public Health Nutrition
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
Dietary Bioactive Components
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
Vitamins and Minerals
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
Maternal, Perinatal and Pediatric Nutrition
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
Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/Metabolism
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
Career/Professional Development
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
Food Science and Systems
Speaker: Debra Behrens, Dr. Debra Behrens – UC Berkeley Career Center
Career/Professional Development
Speaker: Judy Blumenthal – Montgomery College
Career/Professional Development
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
Global Nutrition
Speaker: Susan T. Mayne, PhD – U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Career/Professional Development
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
Preconference/Satellite
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
Preconference/Satellite
Speaker: Namanjeet Ahluwalia, PhD – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Career/Professional Development
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
Nutrition Education and Behavioral Sciences
Clinical and Translational Nutrition
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
Nutrient-Gene Interactions
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
Nutritional Immunology
Speaker: Debra Behrens, Dr. Debra Behrens – UC Berkeley Career Center
Career/Professional Development
Speaker: Judy Blumenthal – Montgomery College
Career/Professional Development
Speaker: Joanne F. Guthrie, PhD, MPH, RD – Economic Research Service, USDA
Career/Professional Development
Speaker: Aryeh D. Stein, PhD – Emory University
Global and Public Health Nutrition
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
Clinical and Translational Nutrition
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
Energy and Macronutrient Metabolism
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
Community and Public Health Nutrition
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
Diet and Cancer
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
Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/Metabolism
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
Nutritional Epidemiology
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
Aging and Chronic Disease
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
Global and Public Health Nutrition
Speaker: John Lombardo
Career/Professional Development
Chair: George Wang – Kansas State University
Chair: Aryeh D. Stein, PhD – Emory University
Speaker: Catherine A. Geissler, PhD – Kings College of London
Global and Public Health Nutrition
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
Preconference/Satellite