Full Educational Program

Chair: Nana Gletsu-Miller, PhD – Purdue University

Chair: Taylor C. Wallace, PhD – Think Healthy Group, Inc. / George Mason University

Speaker: Robert Marriott, JD, MA

Speaker: Sibyl Swift, PhD – Food and Drug Administration

Speaker: Andrew Shao, PhD – Council for Responsible Nutrition

Speaker: Roger Clemens, DrPH – USC School of Pharmacy

Speaker: Peter Pressman, MD, PhD – Polyscience Consulting

Chair: David S. Seres, MD, ScM, PNS, FASPEN – Columbia University

Chair: David A. Sela, PhD – University of Massachusetts

Co-Chair: Lauren R. Brink, PhD – University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences & Arkansas Children's Hospital

Presenting Author: Diana H. Taft, Ph.D. – University of California, Davis

Presenting Author: Noel T. Mueller, PhD, MPH – Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology

Presenting Author: Ruyue Cheng, MD – West China School of Public Health, and Healthy Food Evaluation Research Center, Sichuan University

Presenting Author: Kameron Y. Sugino, BS – Michigan State University

Presenting Author: Moira K. Differding, BA – Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology

Presenting Author: Shannon C. Conrey, MS – University of Cincinnati College of Medicine/Dept of Environmental Health

Presenting Author: Samantha L. Huey, BS – Cornell University

Presenting Author: Kelsea M. Drall, BSc – University of Alberta Department of Pediatrics

Chair: Gloria Salazar – Florida State University

Co-Chair: Kelli S. George, B.S., RDN – Florida State University

Presenting Author: Candice A. Myers, Ph.D. – Pennington Biomedicial Research Center

Presenting Author: Angela Bermudez-Millan, PhD, MPH – UConn Health

Presenting Author: Sara E. Benjamin-Neelon, PhD, JD, MPH – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health, Behavior and Society

Presenting Author: Yan Wang, DrPH – University of Maryland School of Medicine

Presenting Author: Kaela Plank, MPH, MS – University of California, Nutrition Policy Institute

Presenting Author: Diana Brostow, PhD, MPH, RDN – Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center

Presenting Author: Lucas Gosdin, MPH – Nutrition and Health Sciences, Laney Graduate School, Emory University

Presenting Author: Emily Z. Wang, B.A. – Cornell University

Chair: David A. Sela, PhD – University of Massachusetts

Co-Chair: Lauren R. Brink, PhD – University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences & Arkansas Children's Hospital

Presenting Author: Diana H. Taft, Ph.D. – University of California, Davis

Presenting Author: Noel T. Mueller, PhD, MPH – Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology

Presenting Author: Ruyue Cheng, MD – West China School of Public Health, and Healthy Food Evaluation Research Center, Sichuan University

Presenting Author: Kameron Y. Sugino, BS – Michigan State University

Presenting Author: Moira K. Differding, BA – Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology

Presenting Author: Shannon C. Conrey, MS – University of Cincinnati College of Medicine/Dept of Environmental Health

Presenting Author: Samantha L. Huey, BS – Cornell University

Presenting Author: Kelsea M. Drall, BSc – University of Alberta Department of Pediatrics

Chair: Gloria Salazar – Florida State University

Co-Chair: Kelli S. George, B.S., RDN – Florida State University

Presenting Author: Candice A. Myers, Ph.D. – Pennington Biomedicial Research Center

Presenting Author: Angela Bermudez-Millan, PhD, MPH – UConn Health

Presenting Author: Sara E. Benjamin-Neelon, PhD, JD, MPH – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Health, Behavior and Society

Presenting Author: Yan Wang, DrPH – University of Maryland School of Medicine

Presenting Author: Kaela Plank, MPH, MS – University of California, Nutrition Policy Institute

Presenting Author: Diana Brostow, PhD, MPH, RDN – Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center

Presenting Author: Lucas Gosdin, MPH – Nutrition and Health Sciences, Laney Graduate School, Emory University

Presenting Author: Emily Z. Wang, B.A. – Cornell University

Speaker: Gordon L. Jensen, MD, PhD

Chair: Alison Stieber, PhD, RD – Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics

Speaker: Mads F. Hjorth, PhD – University of Copenhagen

Speaker: Itzel Vazquez-Vidal, PhD – University of Manitoba

Speaker: Claude Aebischer, PhD – DSM

Speaker: Kim Stitzel, MS, RD – American Heart Association

Speaker: Barbara O. Schneeman, PhD – University of California Davis

Speaker: Albert Barrocas, MD, FACS, FASPEN – WellStar Atlanta Medical Center

Speaker: Renay D. Tyler, DNP, RN, ACNP – University of Maryland Medical Center

Speaker: Alyssa M. Abreu, BS – University of Rhode Island Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences

Speaker: Maribel Barragan, BS – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Speaker: Gabriella Hernandez, Graduate Student – California Polytechnic State University

Speaker: Doreen Y. Larvie, MS – University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Speaker: Abrania D. Marrero-Hernandez, BS, BSPH – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Speaker: Salima F. Taylor, BS – JM-USDA HNRCA at Tufts University

Chair: Martha A. Belury, PhD – The Ohio State University

Speaker: Rola Hammoud, MSc – University of Toronto Department of Nutritional Sciences

Speaker: Jihye Lee, MS – University of Maryland

Speaker: Jelena Mustra Rakic, MS – JM-USDA HNRCA at Tufts University

Speaker: Charlotte L. Bahnfleth, B.S. – Cornell University

Speaker: Car Reen Kok, MS – University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Speaker: Maryam Razaghi, PhD candidate – McGill University

Speaker: Djibril Ba, MPH – Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine

Speaker: Hyunju Kim, MPH – Johns Hopkins University

Speaker: Yi Zhao, MSc – Tufts University, Friedman School of Nutrition

Chair: James F. Collins, PhD – University of Florida

Chair: Xingen Lei, PhD – Cornell University

Speaker: James F. Collins, PhD – University of Florida

Speaker: Inga Wessels, PhD – RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Speaker: Somshuvra Mukhopadhyay, PhD – University of Texas at Austin

Speaker: Tolunay Aydemir, PhD – Cornell University

Speaker: Byung-Eun Kim, PhD – University of Maryland

Speaker: K. Sandeep Prabhu, MSc, PhD – The Pennsylvania State University

Speaker: Forrest H. Nielson, PhD – USDA Agricultural Research Service - Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center

Chair: Sera L. Young, PhD – Northwestern University Department of Anthropology, Institute for Policy Research

Co-Chair: Sheela S. Sinharoy, MPH, PhD – Emory University

Presenting Author: Victoria Miller, PhD – Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University

Presenting Author: Shibani Ghosh, PhD – Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University

Presenting Author: Sarah Baker, MSPH – Johns Hopkins University

Presenting Author: Valerie Flax, PhD, MPH – RTI International

Presenting Author: Marianne V. Santoso, MS – Cornell University

Presenting Author: Rebecca K. Campbell, PhD, MSPH – Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Presenting Author: Melissa Chapnick, RD, MS, MPH – Washington University in St. Louis

Speaker: Kathryn N. Porter Starr, PhD, RD – Duke University School of Medicine

Speaker: Connie W. Bales, PhD, RD – Duke University School of Medicine

Chair: Sahar Ajabshir, Ph.D. – Florida International University

Speaker: Laura Hopkins, PhD, MSPH, RDN, LDN – The Ohio State University

Speaker: Mengying Li, PhD, MSPH – NICHD, National Institutes of Health

Speaker: Lichchavi D. Rajasinghe, PhD – Michigan State University Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition

Speaker: HyunGyu Suh, Ph.D. – Arizona State University

Speaker: Angela Trude, PhD – University of Maryland School of Medicine

Speaker: Danyue Zhao, Ph.D. – Rutgers University

Chair: James F. Collins, PhD – University of Florida

Chair: Xingen Lei – Cornell University

Speaker: James F. Collins, PhD – University of Florida

Speaker: Inga Wessels, PhD – RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Speaker: Byung-Eun Kim, PhD – University of Maryland

Speaker: K. Sandeep Prabhu, MSc, PhD – The Pennsylvania State University

Speaker: Somshuvra Mukhopadhyay, PhD – University of Texas at Austin

Speaker: Forrest H. Nielson, PhD – USDA Agricultural Research Service - Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center

Chair: Susan B. Roberts, PhD – JM-USDA HNRCA at Tufts University

Speaker: Holly Nicastro, PhD, MPH – National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

Speaker: Paul MacLean – University of Colorado School of Medicine

Chair: Donald K. Layman, PhD – University of Illinois

Speaker: Stuart M. Phillips, PhD – McMaster University

Speaker: Douglas Paddon-Jones, PhD – University of Texas Medical Branch

Speaker: Donald K. Layman, PhD – University of Illinois

Moderator: Klaus Kraemer, PhD – Sight and Life

Speaker: Jessica Fanzo, PhD – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Speaker: Adam Drewnowski, PhD – University of Washington

Speaker: Jeffrey B. Blumberg, PhD – Tufts University

Speaker: Greg Miller, PhD, MACN – National Dairy Council

Moderator: Eileen Kennedy, DSc – Tufts University

Chair: Jaime Lillo, PhD, MPH – International Olive Council

Moderator: Edward L. Giovannucci, MD, ScD – Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Speaker: Jaime Lillo, PhD, MPH – International Olive Council

Speaker: Miguel Ángel A. MARTINEZ-GONZALEZ, MD, PhD, MPH – University of Navarra, Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, IdiSNA, Pamplona, Spain

Speaker: Lukas Schwingshackl, PhD – University of Freiburg

Speaker: Martha C. Morris, ScD – Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Rush University

Chair: Jessica L. Thomson, PhD – USDA Agricultural Research Service

Co-Chair: Samara Joy Nielsen, PhD, MDiv – The Sage Colleges

Presenting Author: Danielle Krobath, M.S. – Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University

Presenting Author: Lisa Jahns, PhD, RD – USDA

Presenting Author: Celina Santiago, B.S. – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Presenting Author: Felicia J. Setiono, MSPH – Cornell University

Presenting Author: Amy Saxe-Custack, PhD, MPH, RDN – Michigan State University

Presenting Author: Carrie Martin, MS, RD – USDA Agricultural Research Service

Presenting Author: Anne O. Garceau, MS, RD – USDA Agricultural Research Service - Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center

Presenting Author: Aurelie Chanson-Rolle, PhD – VAB-nutrition

Chair: Emily Radlowski, PhD, RD – Dominican University

Speaker: Ling-Wei Chen, PhD – School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, University College Dublin

Speaker: Rachel R. Deer, PhD – University of Texas Medical Branch

Speaker: Karen Lindsay, PhD, RDN – University of California Irvine

Speaker: Xian Wu, Ph.D. – Tufts University

Speaker: Tomas Ganz, MD, PhD – David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Chair: Myron D. Gross, PhD – University of Minnesota Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology

Chair: Ted Wilson, PhD – Winona State University

Speaker: Giulio M. Pasinetti, MD, PhD – Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Speaker: Dragan Milenkovic, PhD – Human Nutrition Unit, University Clermont Auvergne, INRA, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Speaker: David C. Nieman, DrPH – Appalachian State University

Speaker: Aron Keith Barbey, PhD – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Speaker: Diane Harris, PhD, MPH – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Chair: David A. Sela, PhD – University of Massachusetts

Speaker: David A. Sela, PhD – University of Massachusetts

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

Speaker: Robert A. Britton, PhD – Baylor College of Medicine

Speaker: Eric C. Martens, PhD – University of Michigan Medical School

Chair: Beth H. Olson – University of Wisconsin

Co-Chair: Susan L. Johnson, PhD – University of Colorado Denver

Presenting Author: Alison Tovar, PhD, MPH – University of Rhode island

Presenting Author: Susan L. Johnson, PhD – University of Colorado Denver

Presenting Author: Karina R. Lora, PhD RDN – The George Washington University

Presenting Author: Hoa T. Nguyen, Ph.D.(c) – University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health

Presenting Author: Jessica Eliason, M.S. student – Arizona State University

Presenting Author: Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, Ph.D. – Yale University

Presenting Author: Angela Trude, PhD – University of Maryland School of Medicine

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

Co-Chair: Silvia Stan, PhD – University of Nevada, Reno

Presenting Author: Abby Benninghoff, PhD – Utah State University

Presenting Author: Jimmy Crott, PhD – JM-USDA HNRCA at Tufts University

Presenting Author: Sumira Phatak, B.S. – Utah State University

Presenting Author: Dallas R. Donohoe, Ph.D. – UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, NUTRITION

Presenting Author: Chris Weston, MS – Southern Illinois University, School of Medicine

Presenting Author: Elvira Gonzalez de Mejia, PhD – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Presenting Author: Yiying Zhao, B.Eng – Purdue University

Presenting Author: Christian J. Konopka, BS – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Chair: Helen Everts, PhD – Texas Woman's University

Co-Chair: Jessica Cooperstone, Ph.D. – The Ohio State University

Presenting Author: Caitlyn G. Edwards, B.S. – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Presenting Author: Jelena Mustra Rakic, MS – JM-USDA HNRCA at Tufts University

Presenting Author: Yaqi Li, n/a – The Pennsylvania State University

Presenting Author: Bridget A. Hannon, MS – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Presenting Author: Nancy E. Moran, PhD – Baylor College of Medicine

Presenting Author: Georg Lietz, PhD – Newcastle University

Presenting Author: Jonathan Cerna, BS – University of Iliinois Urbana-Champaign

Chair: Beth H. Olson – University of Wisconsin

Co-Chair: Susan L. Johnson, PhD – University of Colorado Denver

Presenting Author: Alison Tovar, PhD, MPH – University of Rhode island

Presenting Author: Susan L. Johnson, PhD – University of Colorado Denver

Presenting Author: Karina R. Lora, PhD RDN – The George Washington University

Presenting Author: Hoa T. Nguyen, Ph.D.(c) – University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health

Presenting Author: Jessica Eliason, M.S. student – Arizona State University

Presenting Author: Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, Ph.D. – Yale University

Presenting Author: Angela Trude, PhD – University of Maryland School of Medicine

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

Co-Chair: Silvia Stan, PhD – University of Nevada, Reno

Presenting Author: Abby Benninghoff, PhD – Utah State University

Presenting Author: Jimmy Crott, PhD – JM-USDA HNRCA at Tufts University

Presenting Author: Sumira Phatak, B.S. – Utah State University

Presenting Author: Dallas R. Donohoe, Ph.D. – UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, NUTRITION

Presenting Author: Chris Weston, MS – Southern Illinois University, School of Medicine

Presenting Author: Elvira Gonzalez de Mejia, PhD – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Presenting Author: Yiying Zhao, B.Eng – Purdue University

Presenting Author: Christian J. Konopka, BS – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Chair: Helen Everts, PhD – Texas Woman's University

Co-Chair: Jessica Cooperstone, Ph.D. – The Ohio State University

Presenting Author: Caitlyn G. Edwards, B.S. – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Presenting Author: Jelena Mustra Rakic, MS – JM-USDA HNRCA at Tufts University

Presenting Author: Yaqi Li, n/a – The Pennsylvania State University

Presenting Author: Bridget A. Hannon, MS – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Presenting Author: Nancy E. Moran, PhD – Baylor College of Medicine

Presenting Author: Georg Lietz, PhD – Newcastle University

Presenting Author: Jonathan Cerna, BS – University of Iliinois Urbana-Champaign

Moderator: Richard Mattes, PhD MPH RD – Purdue University

Speaker: Heiner Boeing, Professor – FENS at German Institute of Human Nutrition

Speaker: Cutberto Garza, MD, PhD – Cornell University

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

Speaker: Gregory S. Shelness, PhD – NIH Center for Scientific Review

Chair: Sai Krupa Das, PhD – Tufts University

Co-Chair: Amy Taetzsch, MS, RD – JM-USDA HNRCA at Tufts University

Presenting Author: Chaitra Surugihalli, MS – University of Maryland

Presenting Author: Jennifer L. LaBarre, MPH, RD – University of Michigan, Department of Nutritional Sciences

Presenting Author: Jaapna Dhillon, PhD – UC Merced

Presenting Author: Manuel Ramos, n/a – California Polytechnic State University

Presenting Author: Jess A. Gwin, PhD – US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education

Presenting Author: Sepideh Dibay Moghadam, PhD, MPH, RD – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Presenting Author: Yangbo Sun, PhD, MD – University of Iowa

Chair: Emily R. Smith, ScD, MPH – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Co-Chair: Parul Christian, PhD – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Speaker: Emily R. Smith, ScD, MPH – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Speaker: Josef Schmidhuber, PhD – Researcher

Speaker: Kirkby D. Tickell, MBBS, MPH – University of Washington

Speaker: Purvesh Khatri, PhD – Stanford University

Speaker: Michael Rosenblum, PhD – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Speaker: Laura Lamberti, PhD, MHS – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Speaker: Daniel E. Roth, MD, PhD – Hospital for Sick Children, Canada & University of Toronto, Canada

Speaker: Alain Labrique, PhD – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Speaker: Samuel Klein, MD – Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Speaker: Jaime Uribarri, MD – Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Chair: Catherine Field, PhD, RD – University of Alberta

Speaker: Dan Knights, Ph.D. – University of Minnesota

Speaker: Peter James Turnbaugh, PhD – University of California, San Francisco

Moderator: David A. Sela, PhD – University of Massachusetts

Author: P.K. Newby, ScD, MPH, MS – The Nutrition Doctor Is In