Symposia and Award Lectures

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chair: Pamela Starke-Reed, PhD (she/her/hers) – Agricultural Research Service, USDA

Speaker: Patrick J. Stover, PhD – Texas A&M

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

Chair: Joachim D. Sackey, PhD, MS, MPhil (he/him/his) – Rutgers University, School of Health Professions

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

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

Speaker: Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, PhD, Dr. Honoris Causa – Yale School of Public Health

Speaker: Angela Odoms-Young, PhD – Cornell University

Moderator: Joachim D. Sackey, PhD, MS, MPhil (he/him/his) – Rutgers University, School of Health Professions

Moderator: Lisa M. Troy, PhD – University of Massachusetts Amherst

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

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

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

Speaker: Allie Tatarian, MPhil, MLIS (they/them/theirs) – Tufts University

Speaker: Paige Scudder, MLIS (she/her/hers) – Tufts University

Speaker: Yvette R. Seger, PhD (she/her/hers) – Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

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

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

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

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

Chair: Keith P. West, Jr, DrPH – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Chair: Daniel J. Hoffman, PhD – Rutgers University

Speaker: F. James Levinson, PhD (he/him/his) – Tufts University

Speaker: Harold Alderman, PhD – International Food Policy Research Institute

Speaker: Marcia Griffiths, MSc – The Manoff Group

Speaker: Susan Keino, PhD (she/her/hers) – Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya/Laurea University of Applied sciences, Finland

Speaker: Jaykumar Menon, PhD – Open Source Pharma Foundation

Speaker: Alan Berg

Chair: Daniel J. Hoffman, PhD – Rutgers University

Speaker: Nancy F. Krebs, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

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

Chair: Kyle A. McKillop, MS – US Department of Agriculture

Chair: Alanna J. Moshfegh, MS, RD, PhD – US Department of Agriculture

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