Maria-Luz Fernandez is a Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Connecticut. She is a leading authority on the effects of dietary interventions on dyslipidemias, oxidative stress and inflammation as it relates to cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome and type-2 diabetes. She uses the guinea pig model to elucidate the mechanisms by which different types of fat, dietary fiber, carbohydrate restricted diets and antioxidants reduce the risk for hepatic steatosis, systemic inflammation and atherosclerosis. Her research has been supported by the Federal Government, Industry and Food Commodities. She has co-authored 235 peer-reviewed papers, 13 book chapters plus over 240 scientific abstracts. She has been invited to present her research in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Egypt, Ecuador, Korea, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. She has graduated 34 PhD and 19 Master’s students who currently have prominent positions in Industry and Academia.

Nutrition and Diet

Teruyoshi Amagai has completed his MD and PhD from University of Tsukuba, Japan and Clinical Practice from the Birmingham Children’s Hospital in UK during 1993 and 1994. He is the Professor of Mukogawa Women’s University since 2007 and has been In-charge of drawing up member, “Dietary Reference Intakes for Japanese (2015), developed by the Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare, Japanese Government. He is the Editorial Member, Nutrition in Clinical Practice, academic journal of American Society for Parent and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN).

Malnutrition and Diet

Lonnie Lowery is an exercise physiologist, Registered Dietitian, and Associate Professor at the University of Mount Union, He has 20 years’ experience in teaching and He has published nearly 20 papers in different types of Journals.

Nutrition and Diet

Kenneth Olson, MD, PhD, is certified in Internal Medicine and in Clinical Nutrition. His PhD is in Nutrition Sciences. He has an active consulting practice of Nutritional Medicine for 30 years in both hospital and outpatient settings. He has taught nutrition to medical students, dental students, postgraduate physicians, and to dietitians as well as community groups. He has published within the field of nutrition and in clinical medicine and animal research directed toward clinical applications. He previously presented posters on Nutrition and AIDS at the National Institutes of Health and at similar meeting in Houston, Texas USA. He has collaborated with Mohammad Khaled, PhD, for many years in the areas of diet composition and the functionality of food associated with clinical outcomes especially involving the immune system and inflammatory processes.

Nutrition and Diet

Aisling Aherne graduated with both a BSc in Nutrition and PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry from University College Cork (UCC). Her career has involved working in nutrition research, science communication, and clinical nutrition support. In April 2016, Aisling joined Kerry Group as Nutrition Science Manager for Europe & Russia. Her role involves working collaboratively with Kerry RD&A, Marketing, Regulatory, and Commercial teams on projects and opportunities. Aisling is also involved in nutrition research projects internally and also externally with various third level research institutes. In February 2018, Aisling presented on a Kerry Health and Nutrition Institute webinar entitled ”Sugar Reduction: formulating for Success”.

Diet, Nutrition and Weight Management

Jong Dae Park received his BS and PhD at the School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea in 1980. Following his PhD in 1987, he took a Post-doctoral course at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, Japan in 1990. He has worked as a Project Leader at the Division of Ginseng Efficacy, Korea Ginseng & Tobacco Research Institute. His main research interest is in the field of discovery of new drugs and nutraceuticals from natural sources, which covers isolation and characterization of immunomodulatory acidic polysaccharide from red ginseng and development of anti-rheumatoid arthritis and anti-hypolipidemic agents from ginseng and crude drugs. He is now the Project Investigator for the National Research Project related to development of new materials relieving heat shock stress from Korean ginseng.

Malnutrition and Diet

Dr. Francisco Javier SEÑORANS has developed his research and teaching career in Food Science and Nutrition in different Spanish and international Institutions during the last 25 years at Madrid University (CSIC and UAM) and at Uppsala University (Sweden) as Researcher and Lecturer for two years. He is Chemical Sciences PhD and since 2002, he is Profesor Titular (Associate Professor) at Universidad. Autonoma de Madrid (Spain), where he has been responsible of numerous research projects and contracts with industry. Prof. Señorans was in charge of the management as a Co-director and creation of the Joint Institute in Food Science Research (CIAL). He is co-author of more than 110 publications of international impact (SCI) with h index of 33 (Web of Science) and of several international patents transferred to industry. In 2001 he received the Prize "Archer Daniels" granted by the AOCS. At present he directs a research team with a sound record of research contract with food and pharma industry, in projects related with healthy lipids, including omega-3 fractionation and enrichment of fish and marine oils, microalgae components extraction with compressed fluids and supercritical technology, and enzymatic technologies for structured lipids, hipocaloric oils, and polar lipids.

Nutrition and Diet

Maria-Luz Fernandez is a Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Connecticut. She is a leading authority on the effects of dietary interventions on dyslipidemias, oxidative stress and inflammation as it relates to cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome and type-2 diabetes. She uses the guinea pig model to elucidate the mechanisms by which different types of fat, dietary fiber, carbohydrate restricted diets and antioxidants reduce the risk for hepatic steatosis, systemic inflammation and atherosclerosis. Her research has been supported by the Federal Government, Industry and Food Commodities. She has co-authored 235 peer-reviewed papers, 13 book chapters plus over 240 scientific abstracts. She has been invited to present her research in Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Egypt, Ecuador, Korea, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates. She has graduated 34 PhD and 19 Master’s students who currently have prominent positions in Industry and Academia.

Effects of dietary interventions on dyslipidemias, oxidative stress and inflammation as it relates to cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome and type-2 diabetes.

Director of the Territorial Nephrology Department – Cagliari Italy from 20 years. Main veiw researches: new and advanced dialytic techniques; prevention of Chronic Renal diseases by nutritional and pre-dialysis teams. spending review of methodologies and pharmaco economy. From 1998 I was using and improving combined nutritional and tailored dialysis; guidelines of water for dialysis, peritoneal dialysis. Reviewer of international journals: Kidney International, Nephron, Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation, Journal of Nephrology, American Journal of Kidney Disease, Artificial Organs, BMC Nephrology ; Member of Editorial Boarding of Giornale Italiano di Nefrologia, Journal of Nephrology, Minerva Urologica e Nefrologica, Clinical Nephrology.International Journal of Artificial Organs. Member of Italian Society of Nephrology from 1980. Author / co-author of 374 scientific publications and abstracts of Nephrology 68 on med-line.

New and advanced dialytic techniques; prevention of Chronic Renal diseases by nutritional and pre-dialysis teams. spending review of methodologies and pharmaco economy.

F. Javier Señoráns is Doctor of Science and has developed its research and teaching career in the field of Science and Food Technology for more than 25 years in different Spanish research centers and the University of Uppsala in Sweden, and since twelve years is Professor in Food Technology of the Autonomous University of Madrid.Currently, Professor Señoráns heads a research group in Food Science of the UAM, specializing in clean extraction processes for new bioactive ingredients and functional food production and healthy lipid modification and design. He is director of projects and research contracts on natural extracts using clean and synthesis of structured lipids and coauthor of more than one hundred international scientific papers technologies.

F. Javier Señoráns Rodríguez research interest is on clean extraction processes for new bioactive ingredients and functional food production and healthy lipid modification and design

Dr. Minich earned her BA in biology at Augustana University, her MS in human nutrition and dietetics at University of Illinois – Chicago and her PhD at the University of Groningen (Netherlands), where her dissertation topic was Essential Fatty Acid Absorption and Metabolism. She is a fellow of the American College of Nutrition, an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner (IFMCP), a Certified Nutrition Specialist, a Certified Nutritionist (Washington State Department of Health) and a registered yoga teacher (Yoga Alliance). Dr. Minich has wide-ranging experience in nutritional science, industry and education, having served as a senior research scientist for General Mills, product formulator and clinical research scientist for Cooke Pharma, vice president for scientific affairs at Metagenics, technical and creative curriculum consultant at the Institute for Functional Medicine, and clinical nutritionist at MetaProteomics, Inc. Functional Medicine Research Center (FMRC). She is a member of the Institute for Functional Medicine Nutrition Board, The American Society of Nutrition Science, the American College of Nutrition and the American Association of Diabetes Educators. Dr. Minich is also the developer of The Detox Summit.

Detoxification and Biotransformation Pathways and Imbalances

Teruyoshi Amagai has completed his MD and PhD from University of Tsukuba, Japan and Clinical Practice from the Birmingham Children’s Hospital in UK during 1993 and 1994. He is the Professor of Mukogawa Women’s University since 2007 and has been In-charge of drawing up member, “Dietary Reference Intakes for Japanese (2015), developed by the Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare, Japanese Government. He is the Editorial Member, Nutrition in Clinical Practice, academic journal of American Society for Parent and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN).

Nutrition and Dietetics, Pediatrics

N Arlappa has completed his MD in Community Medicine from NTR University of Medical Sciences, India. He has been working as Nutrition Scientist in the Division of Community Studies, National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), Indian Council of Medical Research, Hyderabad, India, since 1997. He has 18 years research of experience in the field of Public Health Nutrition and published more than 50 scientific papers in peer-reviewed national and international journals. He has also published 4 book chapters, completed more than 40 research studies and published more than 250 technical reports. He has attended and presented more than 25 scientific papers in national and international conferences/workshops. He is the Faculty Member for the Courses of MPH (NIE), MSc (Nutrition) and PG Certificate course in Applied Nutrition at NIN and currently working as a Deputy Director.

Public Health Nutrition

Prof. Louay Labban has completed his PhD from La Sale University in the USA in 1995 and postdoctoral studies from Lund University in Sweden. He has been a professor of clinical nutrition at A’Sharqiyah University in the Sultanate of Oman since 2014. Before, he taught nutrition courses in different universities in Syria and in the USA and he also worked for well-known pharmaceutical companies studying the drug-nutrient interaction and the effect of newly developed medications on the nutritional status of patients. He has published more than 35 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of scientific journals. Professor Labban is affiliated with American Diabetes Association and American Overseas Dietetic Association ( AODA).

Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics

Director of the Territorial Nephrology Department – Cagliari Italy from 20 years. Main veiw researches: new and advanced dialytic techniques; prevention of Chronic Renal diseases by nutritional and pre-dialysis teams. spending review of methodologies and pharmaco economy. From 1998 I was using and improving combined nutritional and tailored dialysis; guidelines of water for dialysis, peritoneal dialysis. Reviewer of international journals: Kidney International, Nephron, Nephrology Dialysis and Transplantation, Journal of Nephrology, American Journal of Kidney Disease, Artificial Organs, BMC Nephrology ; Member of Editorial Boarding of Giornale Italiano di Nefrologia, Journal of Nephrology, Minerva Urologica e Nefrologica, Clinical Nephrology.International Journal of Artificial Organs. Member of Italian Society of Nephrology from 1980. Author / co-author of 374 scientific publications and abstracts of Nephrology 68 on med-line.

new and advanced dialytic techniques; prevention of Chronic Renal diseases by nutritional and pre-dialysis teams. spending review of methodologies and pharmaco economy.

Professor Kaj Winther was earlier deeply involved in cardiovascular research and medicine with special reference to thrombosis and haemostasis and worked for a period at the Harvard Medical School, Boston, on the topic “Circadian variation in Myocardial Infraction”. Later in his career he more and more focused on development and clinical testing of herbal remedies and different versions of new foods. His interest in food and herbal remedies is also based on the fact that much prescription medicine including the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID`s) are blamed for serious side effects. As many of our top athletes and more and more of the average population trying to get into a “better shape” is abusing NSAID`s, more attention should be drawn to develop new “pain-killers” without serious side effects. Here some food supplements, herbal remedies and some new foods, might be interesting to future develop – replies Kaj Winther.

Clinical Biochemistry,herbal remedies and their impact on inflammation

Medical doctor specialised in Public Health, PhD in biostatistics and Pharm D, Pr Francois-André Allaert is strongly involved in the field of medical evaluation and especially in the evaluation of health claim. He is managing a human clinical center specifically approved by French health authorities for food supplement and enriched food evaluation. He is also managing the chair for health claim medical evaluation at the burgundy university of Dijon. He is authors of more than 1500 scientific oral communications and publications among which 210 are pubmed referred.

Epidemiology, Clinical Trials, Clinical Pharmacology

Teruyoshi Amagai has completed his MD and PhD from University of Tsukuba, Japan and Clinical Practice from the Birmingham Children’s Hospital in UK during 1993 and 1994. He is the Professor of Mukogawa Women’s University since 2007 and has been In-charge of drawing up member, “Dietary Reference Intakes for Japanese (2015), developed by the Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare, Japanese Government. He is the Editorial Member, Nutrition in Clinical Practice, academic journal of American Society for Parent and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN).

Nutrition and Dietetics, Pediatrics

F. Javier Señoráns is Doctor of Science and has developed its research and teaching career in the field of Science and Food Technology for more than 25 years in different Spanish research centers and the University of Uppsala in Sweden, and since twelve years is Professor in Food Technology of the Autonomous University of Madrid.Currently, Professor Señoráns heads a research group in Food Science of the UAM, specializing in clean extraction processes for new bioactive ingredients and functional food production and healthy lipid modification and design. He is director of projects and research contracts on natural extracts using clean and synthesis of structured lipids and coauthor of more than one hundred international scientific papers technologies.

F. Javier Señoráns Rodríguez research interest is on clean extraction processes for new bioactive ingredients and functional food production and healthy lipid modification and design

Christine Brombach is since 2009 lecturer at the Institute of Food and Beverage Innovation at Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland. She received a degree in home economics and nutrition from the University of Giessen, Germany and a Master of Science in Nutrition with a major in gerontology from Manhattan, KS, USA. She did her PhD at the University of Giessen, Germany on the topic of “eating behaviour in the life course of women over the age of 65 years”. She was project coordinator of the Nutrition Survey II at the Max Rubner Institute, Karlsruhe in Germany before she moved with her family to Switzerland.

Food Sociology and Human Nutrition

N Arlappa has completed his MD in Community Medicine from NTR University of Medical Sciences, India. He has been working as Nutrition Scientist in the Division of Community Studies, National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), Indian Council of Medical Research, Hyderabad, India, since 1997. He has 18 years research of experience in the field of Public Health Nutrition and published more than 50 scientific papers in peer-reviewed national and international journals. He has also published 4 book chapters, completed more than 40 research studies and published more than 250 technical reports. He has attended and presented more than 25 scientific papers in national and international conferences/workshops. He is the Faculty Member for the Courses of MPH (NIE), MSc (Nutrition) and PG Certificate course in Applied Nutrition at NIN and currently working as a Deputy Director.

Public Health Nutrition

Eileen Kennedy is the Dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University and was the first Director of USDA's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion. Kennedy holds an undergraduate degree from Hunter College, two master's degrees from Pennsylvania State University, and a Doctor of Science in Nutrition from Harvard's School of Public Health. Kennedy has long been involved in the academic arena of nutrition conducting research and teaching at Tufts, Columbia University, Cornell University and Johns Hopkins University. In 2008, Dr. Kennedy was named president of the "Smart Choices" board. “Smart Choices” is a front of label nutrition benchmarking system, a program whose criteria are based on government dietary guidelines and widely accepted nutritional standards.

Assessing the health and nutrition impacts of policies and programs; nutrient density and diet diversity; interventions for obesity prevention.

Dr. Neeta Singh has completed his PhD from Oregon State University followed by MBA in International Affairs and is a Registered Dietitian. Dr. Singh serves as Chair of Nutrition Program with School of Methemetics, Science & Engineering at University of Incarnate, San Antonio, Texas. Her initial research was in artificial intelligence applications in areas of food aid distribution. From past 7 years Dr. Singh has is working on various food sustainability projects as means of improving nutritional status among rural population in the Republic of Tanzania. She has presented her work at various international venues, published in books and has been serving as an editorial board memeber of several international journals.

Addressing the Role of Proximal Determinants of Undernutrition, Bukoba Rural, Republic of Tanzania

Dr. Gaspar Ros Berruezo is Professor of Human Nutrition and Food Science (including Food Safety) at the University of Murcia (UM), serving this Institution for more than 25 years. He has been Post-Doc Fulbright Scholar in 1989-90 at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA as visiting professor. Project leader of the VITALIS Centre for Research in Food Science, Human Nutrition and Health in the Mediterranean area, under construction. Research interest is to functional foods and ingredients, the metabolism to nutritional functionality (including bioavailability and omics) for normal growth and development on infants, and to prevent non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular diseases or obesity.

functional foods and ingredients, the metabolism to nutritional functionality (including bioavailability and omics) for normal growth and development on infants, and to prevent non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular diseases or obesity.

Marica Bakovic completed BSc in Chemistry and PhD in Biological Chemistry at the University of Alberta. She received post-doctoral awards from Medical Research Council and Alberta Heritage Foundation. Before coming to the University of Guelph, she worked in the area of molecular and cell biology of lipid metabolism at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta. Currently, she is Professor in the Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Guelph. Dr. Bakovic has a long-lasting interest in nutrition and metabolism, especially in the area of regulation of membrane phospholipids, fatty acids, and methyl-group donors.

nutrition and metabolism, especially in the area of regulation of membrane phospholipids, fatty acids, and methyl-group donors