PLENARY SPEAKERS
Frank Hu, MD, PhD Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology Chair, Department of Nutrition Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Boston, MA, USA
David Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP, FACLM Associate Professor of Public Health Director, Prevention Research Center Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, CT, USA
Joan Sabate, MD, DrPH Director, Center for Nutrition, Healthy Lifestyle and Disease Prevention School of Public Health, Loma Linda University Loma Linda, CA, USA
SPEAKERS
David J. Baer, PhD Supervisory Research Physiologist U.S. Department of Agriculture Beltsville, MD, USA
Neal Barnard, M.D., F.A.C.C. President of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, and founder of Barnard Medical Center Washington, D.C., USA
Sebastian Brandhorst, PhD Research Lab Tech III Department of Gerontology University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
Nasira Burkholder-Cooley, DrPH, RDN Faculty Department of Food Science & Nutrition Chapman University Orange, CA, USA Loma Linda University Loma Linda, CA, USA
Susan Carlson, PhD Associate Dean for Research AJ Rice Professor of Nutrition University of Kansas Medical Center Kansas City, KS, USA
Aedin Cassidy, PhD Professor of Nutrition, Norwich Medical School University of East Anglia Norwich, England, UK
Tina H. T. Chiu, PhD, RD Nutritional Epidemiologist, Tzu Chi Health Study Tzu Chi Medical Foundation Taiwan
Winston J Craig, PhD, MPH Adjunct Professor of Public Health Loma Linda University Loma Linda, CA, USA Professor Emeritus of Nutrition Andrews University Berrien Springs, MI, USA
Aune Dagfinn, PhD Research Associate, Faculty of Medicine School of Public Health Imperial College London Kensington, London, UK
Brenda Davis, RD Kelowna, British Colombia, Canada
Preet K. Dhillon, PhD Epidemiologist, Sr. Scientific Officer Centre for Chronic Conditions & Injuries Public Health Foundation of India Gurugram, Haryana, India
Gary E. Fraser, MBChB, PhD Professor, Center for Nutrition, Healthy Lifestyle and Disease Prevention School of Public Health, Loma Linda University Loma Linda, CA, USA
Helen Harwatt, PhD Sustainable Food Specialist United Kingdom
Timothy Key, PhD The principal investigator of EPIC-Oxford University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Alice H. Lichtenstein, PhD, D. Sc. Senior Scientist and Director Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory Tufts University Boston, MA, USA
Francois Mariotti, PhD Professor of Human Nutrition Agro Paris Tech Paris, France
Holly Mattix-Kramer, MD, MPH Medicine, Nephrology Associate Professor Loyola University Medical Center Maywood, IL, USA
Vesanto Melina, MS, RD Author and Vegan Consultant Vancouver BC, Canada
Mark Messina, PhD Co-Owner, Nutrition Matters, Loma Linda, California Adjunct Professor Loma Linda University Loma Linda, CA, USA
Michael J Orlich, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Center for Nutrition, Healthy Lifestyle and Disease Prevention School of Public Health and School of Medicine, Loma Linda University Loma Linda, CA, USA
Sharon Palmer, RDN The Plant-Powered Dietitian Editor, Writer, Blogger, Author Duarte, CA, USA
Sujatha Rajaram, PhD Associate professor, Center for Nutrition, Healthy Lifestyle and Disease Prevention School of Public Health, Loma Linda University Loma Linda, CA, USA
Brenda Rea, MD, PT, RD Assistant Professor, Family and Preventive Medicine Departments Medical Director, Living Whole Employee Wellness Program School of Medicine, School of Public Health, Loma Linda University
Matthew Ruscigno, MPH, RD Chief Nutrition Officer Nutrinic, Inc. Los Angeles, CA, USA
Jordi Salas-Salvadó, MD, PhD Professor of Nutrition, Human Nutrition Unit, Director Department of Biochemistry & Biotechnology, IISPV School of Medicine, Rovira i Virgili University Reus, Tarragona, Spain
Aleix Sala-Vila, PhD Investigador Miguel Servet CIBER – IDIBAPS Hospital Clínic de Barcelona Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Rubén Sánchez, PhD Universidad de La Frontera Temuco, IX Región, Chile
John Sievenpiper, MD, PhD, FRCPC Associate Professor, Nutritional Sciences Nutritional Medical Education Coordinator Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Marco Springmann, PhD Researcher, James Martin Fellow Nuffield Department of Population Health University of Oxford Headington, Oxford, England
Trudy Voortman, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Epidemiology Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands, Europe
Nick Wilson, MB ChB, DIH, MPH Professor University of Otago Wellington, New Zealand
Wes Youngberg, DrPH, MPH, CNS, FACLM Founding Director and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine Assistant Clinical Professor Loma Linda University Loma Linda, CA, USA