How do our genes affect what we eat? Can more sustainable diets also improve health? What are the best foods for living longer, fighting cancer, and staying mentally sharp as we age?
You’ll find the answers to these questions and more at NUTRITION 2023, the annual flagship meeting of the American Society for Nutrition, held in Boston on July 22-25.
NUTRITION 2023 will bring together nutritional professionals from around the globe. More than 1,800 original research studies have been submitted for presentation at this year’s event. You can view the full meeting schedule here.
Here are the Friedman School's faculty, staff, and students* who will be presenting at this year's conference (list subject to change):
*This schedule only notes Friedman-affiliated presenters, authors, and co-authors. Much of this research has occurred in collaboration with folks outside of our immediate community. For the full schedule and complete listing of everyone affiliated with each paper or presentation, please click on the "Full Schedule" button at the bottom of this page, or explore the corresponding link for each schedule item.
| Date | Time | Presenter | Presentation Title and Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7/21 | 2PM - 6PM |
Elizabeth Johnson, PhD, (Research Associate Professor) (Speaker) |
Carotenoids and Retinoids Interest Group (CARIG) Symposium and GEM Forum (ASN Community Activity) |
| Date | Time | Presenter | Presentation Title and Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7/22 | 10AM - 11:30AM | Bingjie Zhou, PhD Candidate | “The Use of Population Pyramids To Assess Vulnerable Populations With Sub-optimal Dietary Intake” (Oral 1) |
| 7/22 | 1PM - 4PM | Suzannah Gerber, PhD Student (Finalist) |
Emerging Leaders in Nutrition Science Poster Competition Session: "Development and Feasibility of a Remotely Delivered Healthy Lifestyle Intervention for Older Adults" "Marketing of Animal-Sourced Vs. Plant-Based Foods in Online Grocery Stores: A Comparative Content Analysis of Health and Other Product Claims" |
| 7/22 | 2:30PM - 4PM | Nirupa R. Matthan, PhD (Associate Professor) | “Serum Metabolite Signatures of Healthy Dietary Patterns: Habitual Diet and Avocado Trial" (HAT) (Oral 2) |
| 7/22 | 3:06 PM – 3:18 PM | Allie Skahen, MS | “Improvement in Diet Quality Among Patients with Lung Cancer: Preliminary Results from a Medically Tailored Meals Plus Nutrition Counseling Intervention” (Oral 3) |
| Date | Time | Name | Presentation Title and Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7/23 | 6:30AM - 7:30AM |
Nirupa R. Matthan, PhD (Chair) Alice Lichtenstein, DSc (Speaker) |
Design and Implementation of a Large Multicenter Nutrition Intervention Study: Lessons Learned from the Habitual Diet and Avocado Trial (Sponsored Satellite Program) |
| 7/23 | 8AM - 9:30AM | Robin Shrestha, MD, MS | "Trends in Complementary Feeding Practices in Jordan: An Analysis of Children Aged 6–23 Months Using Demographic Health Surveys 1990 Through 2017/18" (Oral 5) |
| 7/23 | 8:30AM - 9:30AM |
Christina Economos, PhD, Dean (Speaker) |
Biomarkers of Nutrition for Development: Knowledge Indicating Dietary Sufficiency (Symposium) |
| 7/23 | 10:24AM - 10:36AM | Ana Maafs-Rodríguez, PhD Candidate (NICBC program) | "Formative Research for Content Development of a Social Media Campaign To Empower Latino and Black Mothers to Select Healthier Food Choices for Their Children" (Oral 7) *Selected as a finalist in Emerging Leaders in Nutrition Science Poster Competition, Nutrition Translation and Communications topical area* |
| 7/23 | 12:30PM - 1:30PM | Katie Stebbins, (FNII) Session Chair | The Scientific Evoluation of Bioactives in Human Health, Current Challenges, and the Path Ahead Illuminated by AI Driven Science (Sponsored Satellite Program) |
| 7/23 | 4PM - 5:30PM | Emily Diemer, PhD, RD, LD, CNSC, CLC | Novel Methodological Perspectives for Climate and Health Research (Oral 11) |
| 7/23 | 5PM - 5:30PM | Jennifer Coates, PhD | What is Nutrition Security and How Do We Assess and Monitor It? Global Efforts on Assessment and Monitoring of Healthy Diets (Symposium) |
| Date | Time | Name | Presentation Title and Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7/24 | 10AM - 11:30AM | Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, DrPH (Chair) | Food as Medicine (Symposium) |
| 7/24 | 12:45PM - 1:45PM | Erin Hennessy, PhD, MPH | iDINE: A Database for Benchmarking Nutritional Dietary Assessment (Poster Presentation) |
| 7/24 | 2PM - 3:30PM | Julia Reedy Sharib, MS | “Compliance With Mandatory and Voluntary Food Labeling Information Across Major Online Food Retailers in the United States” (Oral) |
| 7/24 | 2PM - 3:30PM | Thomas Biederer, Adjunct Professor, HNRCA (Chair) | Nutrition and the Aging Brain (Session) |
| 7/24 | 2PM - 3:30PM | Paul F Jacques, ScD (Speaker) |
"The Effects of Dietary Compounds on Healthy Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease: What We’ve Learned from Observational Studies" (Symposium) |
| 7/24 | 6PM - 7:30PM | Fang Fang Zhang, MD, PhD (Speaker) | Nutritional Epidemiology GEM Forum - Perspectives on Study Designs to Inform Causal Inference in Nutrition Research (ASN Community Activity) |
| 7/24 | 6:30PM - 8PM | Michael I McBurney (Chair) | Preterm Birth, Neurodevelopment, and Nutrient Status: The Roles of Choline and DHA (Sponsored Satellite Program) |
| Date | Time | Presenter | Presentation Title and Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7/25 | 8AM - 9:30AM | Naina Qayyum, PhD student | Early Experiences With Telehealth for Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC): Perspectives From Three State Agencies (Oral) |
| Friedman Affliated Author(s) | Poster Number | Title |
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Ghaida Aloraini, PhD Candidate; Nicola M. McKeown, Gail T. Rogers, Alice H. Lichtenstein, Sai Krupa Das, Paul F. Jacques |
P29-002-23 |
“Low-Carbohydrate Diet Patterns are Associated with Beneficial Long-term Changes in Systemic Markers of Inflammation in the Framingham Offspring Cohort” |
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Kelly Cara, PhD Candidate; Yu-Hsiang Chiu, Xu Jiang, Eun Ah Song, Haya Alhmly, Mei Chung |
P02-009-23 |
“Dietary Sugar Intake and Diet Quality: A Scoping Review” |
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Yui A. Chang Chusan, PhD student; Ryan Simpson, Elena Naumova, Emily Sanchez |
Diabetes Distress or Housing Instability: Which is a More Salient Psychosocial Stressor for Low-Income People with Diabetes in the United States? |
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Yutong Chen, PhD student; Bingjie Zhou, MS; Elena Naumova, PhD |
P14-011-23 |
“Testing the Agreement of the EAT-Lancet Diet and Dietary Intakes From Two Databased: Global Dietary Database and Global Burden of Disease Database” |
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Yutong Chen, PhD student; Bingjie Zhou, MS; Elena Naumova, PhD |
PTFS06-06-23 |
“Discrepancies in Intake Estimates for Select Dietary Factors in Two Dietary Databases: Global Burden of Disease and Global Dietary Database” |
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Mengxi Du, PhD Candidate; Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, ScD; John B. Wong, MD; Fang Fang Zhang MD, PhD |
P05-003-23 |
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Derek R. Fisher, Francesca Piccolo, Di Xiao, Britt Burton-Freeman, Barbara Shukitt-Hale (Friedman faculty) |
P27-013-23 |
“Red Raspberry Supplemented Serum Reduces Inflammatory Stress Signals in HAPI Rat Microglial Cells, in vitro” |
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Suzannah Gerber, PhD student; Rachel Silver, Sai Krupa Das, Isabella Ramirez, Tina L. Morcos, Savana Greene, Maria Carlota Dao, Lisa Ceglia, Susan B. Roberts |
P23-030-23 |
“Development and Feasibility of a Remotely Delivered Healthy Lifestyle Intervention for Older Adults” |
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Stacy Griswold, MSc; Shibani Ghosh, PhD; Patrick Webb, PhD, Ian Moore, MPH, MS; Carolyn Van Sant, MNSP; Anastasia Marshak, PhD; Merry Fitzpatrick, PhD |
P17-024-23 |
“SBCC Intervention Reduces the Proportion of Children Becoming Ill, Though Types of Morbidities Unchanged: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in Uganda” |
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Zhengye Gu, MS; Mengxi Du, MS, MPH; Lu Wang, PhD; Fang Fang Zhang, MD, PhD |
P02-019-23 |
“Nutrition Profiles of Ultra-Processed Foods Consumed by US Adults, NHANES 2013-2016” |
| Nirupa Matthan, PhD | Association of Baseline Diet Quality Scores with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and Visceral Adiposity Measures in the Habitual Diet and Avocado Trial (HAT). | |
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Michael I McBurney, William S Harris, Nathan L Tintle, Jason Westra, Sharon G Curhan |
PTFS07-02-23 |
Association of plasma omega-3 blood levels and prevalent hearing loss in the UK Biobank |
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Ian Moore, PhD Candidate; Shibani Ghosh, PhD; Patrick Webb, PhD, Ian Moore, MPH, MS; Carolyn Van Sant, MNSP; Anastasia Marshak, PhD; Merry Fitzpatrick, PhD |
P17-050-23 |
“Improved WASH Knowledge and Practices, and Reduced Water Contamination Through Social Behavior Change, in Uganda” |
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Yongyi Pan |
The Association of Egg Consumption with Alzheimer’s Dementia Risk - The Rush Memory and Aging Project |
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Rebecca Ruditser, MS student; Xueyan Fu, Sarah L Booth, Minying Liu, Xiaohua Shen, M. Kyla Shea |
P26-017-23 |
“Comparing Plasma Phylloquinone Concentrations Measured Using Commercial Enzyme-linked Immunoassay to High Performance Liquid Chromatography” |
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Carolyn Van Sant, MNSP; Shibani Ghosh, PhD; Patrick Webb, PhD, Ian Moore, MPH, MS; Stacy Griswold, MSc; Yanlin Ren, MSc |
P26-023-23 |
“Getting Good Data: Insights From an Agricultural Production Survey” |