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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.

Full Schedule

  • 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 Nutrition

    Global 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/Metabolism

    Clinical and Translational Nutrition

    Population 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

  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET
    Biomarkers of Nutrition for Development: Knowledge Indicating Dietary Sufficiency

    Chair: Daniel Raiten, PhD, FASN (he/him/his) – Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    Chair: Andrew Bremer, MD – NICHD, NIH

    Speaker: Connie M. Weaver, PhD (she/her/hers) – San Diego State University

    Speaker: Maureen M. Black, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland and RTI International

    Speaker: Saurabh Mehta, M.B.B.S., Sc.D. (he/him/his) – Cornell University

    Speaker: Christina D. Economos, PhD (she/her/hers) – Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University

    Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/Metabolism

    Clinical and Translational Nutrition

    Population Science

  • 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/Metabolism

    Clinical 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/Metabolism

    Clinical and Translational Nutrition

    Population Science

  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM ET
    Best Practices for Getting Your Manuscript Published & Improving the Discoverability of Your Research

    Chair: Stuart M. Phillips, PhD – McMaster University

    Speaker: Teresa A. Davis, PhD (she/her/hers) – Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine

    Speaker: Christopher P. Duggan, MD, MPH (he/him/his) – Boston Children’s Hospital

    Speaker: Jack Odle, PhD (he/him/his) – North Carolina State University

    Speaker: Katherine L. Tucker, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Massachusetts Lowell

    Speaker: Kevin Klatt, PhD, RD (he/him/his) – University of California, Berkeley

    Career and Professional Development

  • 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM ET
    What is Nutrition Security and How Do We Assess and Monitor It?

    Chair: Edward A. Frongillo, Jr., PhD (he/him/his) – University of South Carolina

    Chair: Alisha Coleman-Jensen, PhD (she/her/hers) – USDA Economic Research Service

    Speaker: Sara N. Bleich, PhD – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

    Speaker: Hilary Seligman, MD MAS (she/her/hers) – University of California San Francisco

    Speaker: Jennifer Coates, PhD – Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy

    Global and Public Health Nutrition

  • 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

  • 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET
    Prioritizing Nutrition Worldwide: Learning from Exemplar Countries

    Chair: Karin Lapping, PhD (she/her/hers) – Gates Ventures

    Speaker: Seth Adu-Afarwuah, Professor (he/him/his) – University of Ghana, Legon

    Speaker: Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, MBBS, PhD – Centre for Global Child Health, Hospital for Sick Children

    Speaker: Juan A. Rivera Dommarco, PhD (he/him/his) – National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico

    Global and Public Health Nutrition

  • 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET
    Food as Medicine

    Chair: Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, DrPH – Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, Tufts University

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

    Speaker: Jim McGovern – Congressman, Second District of Massachusetts, U.S. House of Representatives

    Panelist: John R. Combes, MD (he/him/his) – Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education

    Panelist: Kofi Essel, MD, MPH, FAAP – Elevance Health

    Panelist: Liz Hatzenbuehler, RDN, MS,MPH (she/her/hers) – Community Servings

    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/Metabolism

    Clinical 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/Metabolism

    Clinical 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/Metabolism

    Clinical and Translational Nutrition

  • 4:00 PM – 5:15 PM ET
    Cultivating Resiliency and a Growth Mindset in Early Career Nutrition Professionals

    Chair: Katherine N. Balantekin, PhD, RD (she/her/hers) – University at Buffalo

    Chair: Hannah Oh, ScD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Department of Public Health Sciences, Korea University

    Chair: Nadeeja N. Wijayatunga, MBBS, MPhil, PhD, RDN (she/her/hers) – University of Mississippi

    Speaker: Leah Evert, MBA, MS, RD, EP-C (she/her/hers) – The Willow Foundation

    Panelist: Naima Moustaid-Moussa, PhD, FTOS, FAHA – Texas Tech University

    Panelist: Liliana Aguayo, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health

    Career and Professional Development

  • 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/Metabolism

    Clinical 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/Metabolism

    Clinical and Translational Nutrition

  • 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET
    Metabolic Adaptation and Increased Drive to Eat as Drivers of Weight Regain in Individuals with Obesity. Myth or Reality? An Exercise in Adversarial Collaboration

    Chair: James O. Hill, PhD – University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Chair: Drew Sayer, PhD (he/him/his) – The University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Speaker: Catia Martins, Phd, RD (she/her/hers) – The University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Speaker: Jonathan Krakoff, MD – NIDDK-Phoenix

    Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/Metabolism

    Clinical and Translational Nutrition