Full Schedule

In addition to the presentations listed below, NUTRITION 2023 will feature poster presentations across 32 topical areas. Click 'Abstract Presentations' on the left to learn more about the poster presentations.

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Saturday, July 22, 2023
2:30 PM – 4:00 PM ET
Teens and Nutrient Deficiencies: A Growing Public Health Crisis
Chair: Maureen M. Black, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland and RTI International
Speaker: Heather J. Leidy, PhD – The University of Texas at Austin
Speaker: Ty R. Beal, PhD – GAIN
Speaker: Leslie Anne Kaplan, MD, CEDS (she/her/hers) – Dr. Leslie Kaplan
Clinical and Translational NutritionGlobal and Public Health Nutrition

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET
Opening Session & Presidential Symposium: Food as Medicine: New Findings to Explain Reduced Risk of Cardiovascular Disease by Dietary Linoleic Acid
Chair: Martha A. Belury, PhD, RD – The Ohio State University
Speaker: Penny M. Kris-Etherton, PhD (she/her/hers) – The Pennsylvania State University
Speaker: Frank B. Hu, MD, MPH, PhD – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Speaker: Jyrki K. Virtanen, PhD – University of Eastern Finland
Speaker: Genevieve C. Sparagna, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center
Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/MetabolismClinical and Translational NutritionPopulation Science

Sunday, July 23, 2023
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET
It's Time to Quantify Intake Recommendations for Dietary Bioactives
Chair: Johanna Dwyer, DSc, RD – Tufts University School of Medicine
Chair: Charlene B. Van Buiten, PhD (she/her/hers) – Colorado State University
Speaker: John W. Erdman, Jr., PhD – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Speaker: Gunter GC Kuhnle, Diplom Biochemiker; Doctor rerum naturalium (he/him/his) – University of Reading
Speaker: Paul S. Bernstein, MD, PhD – Moran Eye Center, University of Utah
Speaker: Susan E. Carlson, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Kansas Medical Center
Panelist: Julie Poteet, OD, CNS, MS – Ocular Wellness & Nutrition Society
Clinical and Translational Nutrition

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET
Ultra-Processed Foods: Current Challenges and Future Directions
Chair: Kelly A. Higgins, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers) – USDA-ARS
Speaker: Julie M. Jones, PhD, CNS, CFS, Fellow of AACCI, IFT and ICC (she/her/hers) – St. Catherine University
Speaker: Rick Mattes, MPH, PhD, R.D. (he/him/his) – Purdue University
Speaker: Lauren E. O'Connor, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Agricultural Research Service, USDA
Clinical and Translational Nutrition

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET
Paving the Way to Precision Nutrition: Using Metabolomics to Discover & Validate Dietary Biomarkers
Chair: Johanna W. Lampe, PhD, RD (she/her/hers) – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Speaker: Frank B. Hu, MD, MPH, PhD – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Speaker: Rikard Landberg, Professor (he/him/his) – Chalmers University of Technology
Speaker: Padma Maruvada, Ph.D (she/her/hers) – National Institute of Diabetes, and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Speaker: Marian L. Neuhouser, PhD, RD (she/her/hers) – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Speaker: Francene M. Steinberg, PhD, RD (she/her/hers) – University of California, Davis
Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/MetabolismClinical and Translational Nutrition

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET
The W.O. Atwater Memorial Award Lecture: Enhancing the Purpose of Food
Chair: Pamela Starke-Reed, PhD (she/her/hers) – Agricultural Research Service, USDA
Speaker: Patrick J. Stover, PhD – Texas A&M
Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/MetabolismClinical and Translational NutritionPopulation Science

Monday, July 24, 2023
8:00 AM – 9:35 AM ET
2023 Robert Suskind and Leslie Lewinter-Suskind Pediatric Nutrition Lifetime Achievement Award Lecture - Infant Nutrition: Challenges and Opportunities
Chair: Robert Suskind, MD – California University of Science and Medicine
Speaker: Steven A. Abrams, MD – Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin
Speaker: Saralyn F. Foster, MS, RDN, LD (she/her/hers) – The University of Texas at Austin
Speaker: Shiqi Zhang, BS (she/her/hers) – The Ohio State University
Clinical and Translational Nutrition

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET
Are We Ready? Resilience as a Biomarker for a “Healthy” Gut Microbiome
Chair: J. Philip Karl, PhD, RD – U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine
Speaker: Curtis Huttenhower, PhD (he/him/his) – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Speaker: Abigail J. Johnson, PhD, RD – University of Minnesota
Speaker: Jotham Suez, PhD (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/MetabolismClinical and Translational Nutrition

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET
Nutrition and the Aging Brain
Chair: Thomas Biederer, PhD (he/him/his) – Tufts University
Speaker: Paul F. Jacques, ScD – USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University
Speaker: Ai-Ling Lin, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Missouri
Speaker: Claudia Perez Cruz, PhD – Cinvestav-IPN: Mexican Research Institution
Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/MetabolismClinical and Translational Nutrition

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET
Nourishing the Future: How Early Taste and Food Exposures Shape Diet and Health in Later Life
Chair: Susan L. Johnson, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Speaker: Kofi Essel, MD, MPH, FAAP – Elevance Health
Speaker: Catherine A. Forestell, PhD (she/her/hers) – William & Mary
Speaker: Karen Switkowski, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute/Harvard Medical School
Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/MetabolismClinical and Translational Nutrition

4:00 PM – 5:35 PM ET
2023 George Bray Outstanding Scientific Achievements Award in Obesity Research: Adipose Tissue Metabolism in Human Obesity
Speaker: Michael Jensen, MD – Mayo Clinic
Speaker: Zhaoping Li, MD, PhD – Center for Human Nutrition, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Speaker: Shuhao Lin, MS, RD – University of Illinois Chicago
Speaker: Semira R. Ortiz, PhD (she/her/hers) – Cornell University
Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/MetabolismClinical and Translational Nutrition

6:15 PM – 7:30 PM ET
2023 Jean-Pierre Habicht Lifetime Achievements in Global Nutrition Award and Global Nutrition Council Forum
Chair: Daniel J. Hoffman, PhD – Rutgers University
Speaker: Nancy F. Krebs, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Global and Public Health Nutrition

Tuesday, July 25, 2023
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET
Behind the Scenes @ Nutrition for Precision Health
Chair: Holly Nicastro, PhD, MPH – National Institutes of Health
Speaker: Leanne Redman, PhD (she/her/hers) – Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Speaker: Sai Krupa Das, PhD – Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University
Speaker: Diana M. Thomas, PhD (she/her/hers) – West Point
Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/MetabolismClinical and Translational Nutrition