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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

  • 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