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• Proving the Power of Food: The Science Behind Food as Medicine

• GLP-1-RA Drugs + Lifestyle Medicine for Weight Loss: Evidence, Risks, Benefits, and Best Practices

• Menopause and Diet: Approaches, Challenges, and Evidence-Based Solutions

• Diet ID in Research: Validation, Data, and Implications for Assessing Diet Quality

• Preventive Cardiology & Lifestyle Intervention: 3 Success Stories

• Nutrition in Medical Training: Standards, Policy, and Future Outlook

• Top 10 Nutrition Myths Busted Once and for All

• Diet for the Health of People and Planet: Quantifying the Environmental Impacts of Dietary Intake Patterns

• Employee Wellness: Proven Nutrition Solutions for Employers

• Cardiovascular Disease and Nutrition: Closing the Gap

• Empowering the Nutrition Professional to Advance Sustainable Food Systems with Food+Planet

• The ROI of Food as Medicine: In the Workplace and Beyond

• Protein and Beyond: Considerations for Disease Reduction and Planetary Health

• Elevating Ethnic Diets in Health Promotion

• Digital Lifestyle Medicine: Data Driven, Evidence Based, and Scaled for Populations

• Ultraprocessed Foods: Implications for Nutrition Policy and Recommendations

• Diet, Cognition, and Mental Health: What’s the Connection?

• How Do Social, Racial, and Economic Disparities Impact Diet and Health?

• How do Lifestyle-Related Conditions Affect COVID-19 Outcomes?

• Nutrition and Immunity: Fact and Fiction

• Intermittent Fasting … And Beyond!

• Can We Say What Diet is Best?

• Processed Meat, Evidence, and Dietary Guidance: An Insider's View of the Sausage Being Made

This exclusive webinar explores the compelling science of Food as Medicine (FaM). In light of recent skepticism, this event brings together three esteemed experts in the FaM field—Dr. Geeta Maker-Clark, MD, Dr. Robert Ostfeld, MD, and Dr. Micaela C. Karlsen, PhD—to present robust evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of FaM interventions. Featuring FaM leader Dr. David L. Katz, MD, MPH, the panel will discuss leading research that proves Food as Medicine works on both individual and population levels. This webinar is a must-attend for physicians, dietitians, and public health leaders eager to stay informed about cutting-edge approaches to using food to prevent, treat, and reverse chronic disease.

Speakers: Geeta Maker-Clark, MD, ABOIM, Micaela Karlsen, PhD, MSPH, and Robert J. Ostfeld, MD, MSc, FACC

Geeta Maker-Clark, MD, ABOIM, a physician, speaker, thought leader, mother, educator, and activist, is the Director of Integrative Nutrition and Advocacy at NorthShore University Health System. She is also the Co-Director of Culinary Medicine at the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago, one of the first Culinary Medicine programs in the country. She believes that any meaningful healing must involve the mind, body and spirit, and that whenever possible the most natural and least invasive intervention serves the highest good of the person. Her work addresses the health issues arising at the intersection of culture, race, food traditions, lifestyle and inequity in the food system. Her work with food is deeply rooted in the belief that if you trace back just a few generations, every person comes from a rich culture of healthy, medicinal foods, and that food is deeply personal and part of a larger socio-political system.

Dr. Maker-Clark is a graduate of the University of Arizona Fellowship in Integrative Medicine, under the supervision and mentorship of Dr. Andrew Weil. She is a certified prenatal yoga instructor, a practicing yogini for the last 20 years, and a devoted student of life.

Dr. Maker-Clark relies heavily on the use of food as medicine in her approach to healing, as well as herbal medicine, nutriceuticals, botanicals, mind body connection, and healing practitioners in the community. She speaks around the country on the power of food as medicine, started the first Midwestern CME symposium solely dedicated to emerging nutritional science, and runs a Food is Power program with her medical students and chef in Englewood, Chicago for middle schoolers. She was chosen as one of twelve leaders in food justice to be a 2019-21 Castanea Fellow.

Micaela Karlsen, PhD, MSPH, serves as Sr. Director of Research at the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. She is a co-investigator on the Adhering to Dietary Approaches for Personal Taste (ADAPT) Study from Tufts University. She is also Adjunct Faculty for the University of New England Master’ Programs in Applied Nutrition and Global Public Health.

Dr. Karlsen is the author of A Plant-Based Life and a contributor to the New York Times bestseller Forks Over Knives: The Plant-Based Way to Health. Her expertise is in lifestyle medicine, dietary patterns, plant-based nutrition and nutritional adequacy, and predictors of successful behavior change. She holds a PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology from the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and a Masters degree in Human Nutrition from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.

Robert J. Ostfeld, MD, MSc, FACC, is the Director of Preventive Cardiology at Montefiore Health System and a Professor of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Ostfeld treats patients with adult cardiovascular disease, including coronary artery disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and erectile dysfunction with a focus on prevention and treatment through lifestyle change. He works closely with his patients to help them adopt a plant-based diet.

Dr. Ostfeld received his Bachelor of Arts in the Biologic Basis of Behavior from the University of Pennsylvania, graduating Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa and his Doctor of Medicine from Yale University School of Medicine. He then did his Medical Internship and Residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital and his Cardiology Fellowship and Research Fellowship in Preventive Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, both teaching hospitals of Harvard Medical School. During his Cardiology Fellowship, he earned a Master’s of Science in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Ostfeld’s research focus is on cardiovascular disease prevention and reversal through lifestyle modification. Ongoing topics he investigates include the impact of plant-based nutrition on erectile function, coronary artery disease, angina, and heart failure. His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, books, articles, and clinical statements and has been presented nationally.

Dr. Ostfeld is board certified in Cardiovascular Disease and Echocardiography and is a member of numerous professional societies, including the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and the American College of Cardiology.

Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists, the newest class of prescription drugs approved for weight loss, are rapidly increasing in popularity and demand. In this live webinar, our experts will discuss a patient-centered approach to optimizing outcomes for those using the drug. Upon completion of this activity, attendees will be able to:

• Understand the drugs’ purpose, evolution over time, and mechanisms of action

• Identify potential risks and adverse effects

• Explain the importance of diet quality and associated nutrition issues

• Explore the role of lifestyle medicine

• Discuss long-term weight management strategies for those discontinuing the regimen

Speakers: Mahima Gulati, MD, DipABLM, FACLM, FACE and Jonathan Bonnet, MD, MPH, DipABLM, DipABOM

Dr. Mahima Gulati is a triple board-certified physician certified in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, as well as Internal Medicine and Board-certified Diplomate of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine.

She is a Fellow of the American College of Endocrinology, as well as Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.

She is an Associate Professor of Medical Sciences (community faculty) at the Frank H. Netter School of Medicine, Quinnipiac University, where she teaches both endocrinology, and Lifestyle Medicine to medical students. She is a senior attending physician in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, currently working as a locum tenens physician at Baystate medical center, Springfield, MA.

She was elected to the prestigious Board of Directors of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine in November 2022, a medical society with >11,000 members from various healthcare professional fields, a term which she is currently serving. Dr. Gula, serves as the Chair of Endocrinology member interest group at American College of Lifestyle Medicine; and had previously served as a co-chair of the Reproductive health subcommittee of the ACLM’s Women’s health member interest group.

She founded the service line of Lifestyle Medicine at Middlesex Health, Middletown, Connecticut in 2019 and served as the medical director of Lifestyle Medicine there till spring 2023.

She has been an invited speaker at numerous regional, national, international conferences, as well as published several journal articles and textbook chapters on both endocrine topics and Lifestyle therapeutic approaches. She is one of the co-authors of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine’s expert consensus statement on “Dietary interventions for type 2 diabetes remission” published in 2022.

Dr. Jonathan Bonnet is a board-certified family, sports, obesity, and lifestyle medicine physician. He is an associate professor (affiliate) at Stanford University School of Medicine and the program director of medical weight loss at the clinical resource hub weight management center at the Palo Alto VA. He was the top prescriber of Semaglutide at the Palo Alto VA the previous year and has given keynotes, grand rounds, and numerous presentations on the intersections of weight loss medications and lifestyle medicine.

Jonathan serves on the board of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine and co-chairs the American College of Lifestyle Medicine's (ACLM) 30-hour CME board review course. He previously served on the board of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He has co-authored two editions of the Lifestyle Medicine Handbook and the first edition of the Medical Fitness Bible. He has published research in sleep medicine, nutrition, sports and exercise, obesity, and behavior change and serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine. He is the current advisor for the Emory University Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group and an expert faculty for the Stanford Center on Longevity Lifestyle Medicine Program.

Jonathan has a background in exercise physiology and is a certified personal trainer. He completed his undergraduate and medical school degrees at Ohio State University before finishing his family medicine residency at Duke University, and his sports medicine fellowship at the University of Florida. He also holds a master’s degree in public health from Harvard.

Aviva Romm, MD is both a midwife and a Yale trained MD and Board Certified Family Physician with specialties in Integrative Gynecology, Obstetric and Pediatrics, with a focus on women’s endocrinology. She’s also a world renown herbalist, and author of the textbook, Botanical Medicines for Women’s Health, as well as 7 other books, including her latest book, Hormone Intelligence, an instant New York Times Bestseller, which explores the impact of the world we live in on women’s hormones and health, and brings us a new medicine for women that is at once holistic and natural, while being grounded in the best science and medicine have to offer..  A practitioner, teacher, activist and advocate of both environmental health and women’s reproductive rights and health, she has been bridging the best of traditional medicine, total health ecology, and good science for over three decades. Her podcast, articles, books, and online programs  are wildly popular and successful, helping women take back their health. She practices medicine in both NY and MA, and lives in the Berkshires of Western MA.

Kathleen Jordan, MD is an internist and is the Chief Medical Officer at Midi Health. She did her undergraduate work at Stanford University and studied medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, followed by her residency at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where she completed her fellowship in infectious diseases. Dr. Jordan spent decades working within the traditional healthcare system beginning with running her own private practice and serving patients in San Francisco. She served in several leadership roles within hospital systems and womens health care where she leaned into digital health, leveraging innovative technology for sytemic change to care for patients in a more human way. Using digital health as a means to improve access and excellence, she was on founding team of Midi Health and where she continues to lead a team of clinicians nationally that specializes in supporting women’s physical, emotional, and sexual wellbeing at midlife and beyond--with weight management as one of their fasting growing services. She leads the clinical team in using evidence based strategies to support patients with healthy weight management inclusive of treating thousands of women with lifestyle, nutrition support and, sometimes, medication management inclusive of the new GLP-1 agonist medications.

Hillary Wright, MEd, RDN, LDN is a registered dietitian and educator with more than 3 decades of experience counseling clients on diet and lifestyle change. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Human Nutrition from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a Master’s of Health Education from Boston University. Hillary is the Director of Nutrition Counseling for the Wellness Center for at Boston IVF, where she specializes in weight management, diabetes prevention and women’s health. She has written extensively for a variety of health-related publications on the role of diet and behavior modification in the prevention and treatment of common health concerns, and is the author of two books, The PCOS Diet Plan: A Natural Approach to Health for Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, and The Prediabetes Diet Plan: How to Reverse Prediabetes and Prevent Diabetes through Healthy Eating and Exercise. Hillary is the co-author The Menopause Diet Plan: A Natural Guide to Managing Hormones, Health and Happiness. Hillary is also a sought after speaker and consultant to industry, including the nutrition logging and support platform, www.GoodMeasures.com, and has been widely quoted in national media. In addition, she holds a part-time position as a nutritionist at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, supporting patients during and after cancer treatment, and is the proud mom of three wonderful young men who she can proudly say are excellent (or evolving!) cooks! Hillary's interest in nutrition arose from growing up in a family where two of her five siblings were diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at ages 7 and 11. While contemplating careers, her mother shared how much a registered dietitian at Boston Children's Hospital helped her gain confidence in her ability to manage her young children's diabetes and the idea of helping people both prevent and manage health problems through natural means took hold. To learn more, visit hillarywright.com.

Diet quality is often a key outcome measure in nutrition research. In designing studies, selecting the right diet assessment tool to measure dietary intake is critical for reliability, accuracy, and reproducibility. In this session, three prominent nutrition researchers who published peer-reviewed validation studies using the Diet ID method will discuss their studies’ purpose, design methodology, results, and conclusions with future directions for implementing image-based assessment technology. Validation studies like these demonstrate Diet ID in the research setting as a valuable, accurate tool that may reduce both time and participant burden over existing methods.

Speakers: Brie Turner-McGrievy, Rachel Scherr, & Marcela Radtke

Brie Turner-McGrievy, PhD, MS, RD, FTOS, received her Master of Science degree in Nutrition and Registered Dietitian credentials from the University of Alabama in 2000. She went on to work in the area of clinical research for four years before pursuing her doctoral degree. Dr. Turner-McGrievy completed her doctoral degree in nutrition and postdoctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Public Health. Currently, she is an associate professor at the University of South Carolina in the Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior and is Deputy Director of the Technology Center to Promote Healthy Lifestyles. 

Dr. Turner-McGrievy’s research focuses on behavioral interventions for weight loss and the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases. Dr. Turner-McGrievy has over 165 publications and has secured more than $13 million in grant funding. She has published research on the use of emerging technologies for weight loss and health promotion. In particular, her research has focused on the use of podcasting and social media to deliver behavioral weight loss interventions. Her research has combined these delivery methods with other mobile enhancements, including the use of diet monitoring apps for smartphones. Dr. Turner-McGrievy’s work has also focused on plant-based dietary approaches for chronic disease prevention and treatment among adults. She has served as Principal Investigator on five NIH-funded trials with chronic disease risk factor reduction and weight loss as primary outcomes. This has included an NCI-funded R21 randomized weight loss intervention using digital technology, an NIDDK-funded R01 testing a mobile social gaming intervention for weight loss, an NIDDK-funded R01 examining the impact of the three dietary patterns from the US Dietary Guidelines on type 2 diabetes prevention, an NHLBI-funded R01 randomized cardiovascular disease prevention nutrition intervention trial, and an NHLBI-funded R01 testing the efficacy and implementation of our NEW Soul intervention.

She has received several awards during her nutrition career, including the Recognized Young Dietitian of the Year award in 2004, the Society of Behavioral Medicine’s Early Career Investigator Award for 2016, and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Excellence in Weight Management Outcomes Research Award for 2017. In 2018, she was inducted as Fellow to the Obesity Society.

Rachel Scherr, PhD is an advocate for preventing chronic disease development and progression in low-income, marginalized communities through providing evidence-based comprehensive nutrition programming.

After completing her doctoral work in Nutritional Biology at the University of California, Davis in 2011, she spent time as a postdoctoral scholar and nutrition department faculty before becoming the Director of the Center for Nutrition in Schools (CNS). With elementary schools playing a pivotal role in mitigating childhood obesity, promoting physical activity, and reducing food insecurity, the CNS team, led by Dr. Scherr, provides research-based, comprehensive nutrition programming to improve student health outcomes. In addition to achieving positive behavior change as a result of the programs, Dr. Scherr has worked to establish and maintain successful partnerships with universities across the nation, University of California Cooperative Extension, CalFresh Healthy Living UC, non-profit agencies, and school districts, among others.

Recently, Dr. Scherr has focused her research efforts on addressing food insecurity within the college student population. With such a high prevalence of food insecurity in this population, Dr. Scherr is overseeing clinical, sub-clinical, and observational research studies with the goal of developing effective intervention strategies, which will include nutrition and food literacy curricula at the collegiate level.

Dr. Scherr has authored and co-authored over 30 peer-reviewed publications and seven research-supported nutrition and food literacy curricula. She has and continues to develop nutrition fact sheets on current topics and misconceptions in nutrition for both community health professionals and consumers.

Marcela Radtke is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Davis studying nutritional biology with an emphasis in cognitive neuroscience. Her research focuses on the physiological and cognitive outcomes associated with the experience of food insecurity. Using innovative assessment tools for measuring clinical biomarkers and dietary intake, Marcela has completed multiple human clinical trials using Diet ID™, including a validation study comparing Diet ID™ against repeated 24-hour NDSR dietary recalls, skin carotenoids using pressure-mediated reflection spectroscopy, and plasma carotenoids. 

Nutrition education in medical training is a hot topic. The National Academy of Sciences recommends a minimum of 25 hours of nutrition instruction over four years, but most medical schools fall below this minimum. Recent advocacy, including Congressman McGovern's bipartisan resolution calling for widespread nutrition and lifestyle education for medical students, physicians, and other healthcare professionals, has brought this issue into the spotlight. Speakers will cover this advocacy, the evolving roles of nutrition and lifestyle in medical training, how to put policy into practice, and implications for dietitians as part of the multi-disciplinary clinical team.

Speakers: Emily Broad Leib, Kofi Essel, and Jaclyn Albin

Emily Broad Leib is a Clinical Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, the nation’s first law school clinic devoted to providing legal and policy solutions to the health, economic, and environmental challenges facing our food system. She is also Deputy Director of Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation. Working directly with clients and communities, Broad Leib champions community-led food system change, reduction in food waste, food security and access to healthy foods, and equity and sustainability in food production. Her scholarly work has been published in California Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, the Harvard Law & Policy Review, the Food & Drug Law Journal, and the Journal of Food Law & Policy, among others.  A recognized leader in the field, Broad Leib’s work has been covered by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, The Guardian, TIME, Politico, and The Washington Post. She also made appearances on CBS This Morning, CNN, The Today Show, and MSNBC.

Before joining Harvard Law School’s faculty, Broad Leib spent two years in Clarksdale, Mississippi as the Joint Harvard Law School/Mississippi State University Delta Fellow. She served as the Director of the Delta Directions Consortium, a group of university and foundation leaders dedicated to improving public health and fostering economic development in the Delta. She continues to serve as the faculty supervisor for the Harvard Mississippi Delta Project. Broad Leib received her B.A. from Columbia University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School, cum laude.

Kofi D. Essel, MD, MPH, FAAP, is a board-certified community pediatrician at Children’s National Hospital(CNH) in Washington, D.C. Dr. Essel serves as Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, the Director of the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences Culinary Medicine Program, the Director of the GWU Community/Urban Health Scholarly Concentration, and the Director of the GWU Clinical Public Health Summit on Obesity. 

Dr. Essel has dedicated his career to advocacy/research around healthcare training, health disparities, and community engagement, with expertise and national recognition in the areas of addressing obesity stigma, and food insecurity in families.  Dr. Essel sits on the National Academy of Sciences Roundtable on Obesity Solutions Lived Experience Innovation Collaborative and was nationally recognized by the Alliance for a Healthier Generation for helping to create an innovative curriculum to enhance pediatric resident trainee skills on obesity management.  He also co-authored a national toolkit for pediatric providers to address food insecurity in their clinical settings with the AAP and the Food Research & Action Center. He is the Principal Investigator of a large multidisciplinary population health initiative that aims to strengthen community-clinical ties to address diet related chronic diseases in historically marginalized settings in Washington, D.C.  Dr. Essel has received numerous local/national awards for his professional practice, in addition to being selected for the Top 40 Under 40 Leaders in Health Award by the National Minority Quality Forum.

Dr. Essel earned a BS from Emory University with a focus on Human Biology and Anthropology, and earned his Medical Degree and Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology from GWU. He completed pediatric residency and General Academic Pediatric fellowship training at Children’s National Hospital.

Jaclyn Albin, MD, CCMS, DipABLM is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and Director of the Culinary Medicine program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

Dr. Albin is board certified in lifestyle medicine and is a certified culinary medicine specialist (CCMS). She serves on the national advisory board for the CCMS program, on the research and curriculum committees of Health meets Food, and on the research and education committees for the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative. Dr. Albin is grant-funded for a trial studying the impact of virtual Culinary Medicine classes on diabetes control and studies innovative, community-based shared medical appointment models through her institutional Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) program. She has published her work in interprofessional education in culinary medicine and community engagement.

Dr. Albin seeks to drive positive change at a population health level. Food as medicine delivers a unique opportunity to integrate the clinical, educational, research, and public health aspects of this work through the training of future healthcare professionals, delivery of innovative patient support in lifestyle behavior change, and high-quality research that uplifts the health of communities.

Dr. Kristi Artz, MD is the Medical Director of Lifestyle Medicine at Spectrum Health. Dr. Artz focuses on living a healthy lifestyle for herself and her family but also encourages it for her patients. Motivated by treating patients with acute and chronic illnesses, her work is focused on reimagining how we connect with patients using personalized lifestyle interventions. She is board certified in emergency medicine, a diplomate of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine and serves as Medical Director of Lifestyle Medicine and Virtual Health as well as the lead physician of the Culinary Medicine program at Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, MI.

Dr. David Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP, FACLM Founder and CEO of Diet ID, is a globally renowned expert and a leading influencer in preventive medicine, health promotion, lifestyle medicine, and nutrition for over 30 years. He is the founder and CEO of Diet ID, president of the nonprofit True Health Initiative, and founding director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center. Dr. Katz has earned numerous awards for his contributions to public health, including three honorary doctorate degrees. His writing has appeared in over 200 peer-reviewed publications, hundreds of health columns, and 19 books to date. Dr. Katz has over one million followers on his social media platforms.

Dina Aronson, MS, RDN is the Director of Nutrition Programming for Diet ID. She's been a registered dietitian for nearly 30 years, during which she's enjoyed several roles in the technology, wellness, and food space. Author of hundreds of articles and 3 books, Dina is passionate about empowering people to optimize their health by using a customized, personalized approach. She believes it is never too late to upgrade your healthy lifestyle. Dina earned her Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition from Cornell University and her Master’s in Nutrition from Tufts University. 

It’s undeniable: what we eat impacts the health of both our bodies and the planet. While we now know quite a bit about food-driven carbon footprint, it's still a challenge to measure the true impact of overall dietary pattern on the environment. In this webinar, speakers will discuss what dietary patterns are best for human health and why; the role of sustainable agriculture for planetary and public health; a reality check on carbon footprint of various protein sources; and a proposed metric for quantifying the environmental impacts of various dietary intake patterns.

Dr. Dean Ornish, Dr. Christopher Gardner, Danielle Nierneberg, and Dr. David Katz

Danielle Nierenberg, president of Food Tank, is a world-renowned researcher, speaker, and advocate on all issues relating to our food system and agriculture. In 2013, Danielle Nierenberg co-founded Food Tank (foodtank.com) with Bernard Pollack, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization focused on building a global community for safe, healthy, nourished eaters. Food Tank is a global convener, thought leadership organization, and unbiased creator of original research impacting the food system. Danielle has an M.S. in Agriculture, Food, and Environment from the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and spent two years volunteering for the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic. Danielle is the recipient of the 2020 Julia Child Award.

Dr. Christopher Gardner holds a PhD in Nutrition Science and is a Professor of Medicine at Stanford. He has served on numerous committees, including the Nutrition Committee of the American Heart Association and currently on the scientific advisory board of the Culinary Institute of America. Over the past 20+ years, he has conducted more than a dozen human nutrition trials and has examined the potential health benefits of dietary components such as soy, garlic, antioxidants, ginkgo, omega-3 fats, and vegetarian diets. All of these studies have involved extensive collection of dietary assessment data. He recently completed a 12-month weight loss diet study among 609 overweight and obese adults, a total of over 5,500 24-hour diet recalls were administered using NDS-R. Dr. Gardner’s research group recently created, tested, and published the results from a study testing a smart-phone app designed to promote and track vegetable consumption.

Dean Ornish, M.D., is the founder and president of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute and Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF. For over 44 years, Dr. Ornish has directed randomized trials demonstrating, for the first time, that comprehensive lifestyle changes may begin to reverse even severe coronary heart disease, without drugs or surgery. Medicare created a new benefit category to provide coverage for this program. He directed the first randomized controlled trial demonstrating that lifestyle changes may slow, stop, or reverse the progression of early-stage prostate cancer. In other research, he has shown that comprehensive lifestyle changes affect gene expression, “turning on” disease-preventing genes and “turning off” genes that promote cancer and heart disease. And in collaboration with Nobel Prize winner Dr. Elizabeth Blackburn, he has shown that these lifestyle changes may begin to reverse aging on a cellular level by lengthening telomeres. He is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of seven national bestsellers, including his most recent book, UnDo It! He received many awards, including the University of California, Berkeley, “National Public Health Hero” award; the inaugural “Lifetime Achievement Award” from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine; was recognized as “one of the 125 most extraordinary University of Texas alumni in the past 125 years;” by TIME magazine as a “TIME 100 Innovator;” by LIFE magazine as “one of the fifty most influential members of his generation;” by People magazine as “one of the most interesting people of the year;” and by Forbes magazine as “one of the world’s seven most powerful teachers.”

Dr. David Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP, FACLM Founder and CEO of Diet ID, is a globally renowned expert and a leading influencer in preventive medicine, health promotion, lifestyle medicine, and nutrition for over 30 years. He is the founder and CEO of Diet ID, president of the nonprofit True Health Initiative, and founding director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center. Dr. Katz has earned numerous awards for his contributions to public health, including three honorary doctorate degrees. His writing has appeared in over 200 peer-reviewed publications, hundreds of health columns, and 19 books to date. Dr. Katz has over one million followers on his social media platforms.

A healthy workforce translates into improved disease management and prevention, happier employees, higher performance levels, greater job satisfaction, and employee retention, all of which contribute to lower healthcare costs. With all the different programs available, how do we know what really works? How can we leverage tools we have to communicate effective nutrition education? How can we measure efficacy and translate data results into cost savings? Why and how does the RDN fit into employee health and wellness programming? Learn about what employers and wellness providers can do to maximize the impact of food and nutrition programs and interventions, as well as strategic and practical implications.

Speakers: Krista Yoder Latortue, MPH, RDN, PMP, PBA, FAND, and David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP, FACLM

Krista Yoder Latortue, MPH, RDN, PMP, PBA, FAND is a healthcare executive, Certified Business Analyst, and Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with over 15 years of experience in nutrition and public health. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics where she served as chair of the Academy’s Nutrition Services Payment Committee and was recently elected to the Academy's Board of Directors. Krista is published in multiple scientific journals including the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and has presented on both a national scale at the Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo and the international stage at the International Congress of Dietetics. As the President of Provider Networks for Wellness Coaches USA, she leads national networks of Registered Dietitian Nutritionists and other healthcare providers for an interdisciplinary approach to employee wellness.

Dr. David Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP, FACLM Founder and CEO of Diet ID, is a globally renowned expert and a leading influencer in preventive medicine, health promotion, lifestyle medicine, and nutrition for over 30 years. He is the founder and CEO of Diet ID, president of the nonprofit True Health Initiative, and founding director of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center. Dr. Katz has earned numerous awards for his contributions to public health, including three honorary doctorate degrees. His writing has appeared in over 200 peer-reviewed publications, hundreds of health columns, and 19 books to date. Dr. Katz has over one million followers on his social media platforms.

This webinar explores how and why a low referral rate of cardiologists to registered dietitian nutritionists exists. In light of cardiology survey results recently published in the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention, speakers will investigate and explain the importance of nutrition in the prevention and management of cardiovascular disease, the role of the RDN in clinical cardiology, lifestyle medicine approaches to cardiac health and disease reversal, barriers to a team approach, and strategies to improve both referral rate and success of nutrition interventions.

Speakers: Andrew Freeman, MD, Monica Aggarwal, MD, and Cole Adam, RD

Cole Adam, RD is a Denver-based dietitian who works in outpatient cardiac rehabilitation at Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver, CO. His knowledge focus is on how diet and lifestyle can help prevent and treat our most common chronic diseases. This interest in chronic disease prevention began while completing his dietetic internship through the Indian Health Service and working with indigenous populations in Arizona who are disproportionately affected by these diseases. He is passionate about plant-based eating and the health, environmental, and animal welfare benefits that can come from it. As a creative outlet, he runs the Instagram account, @the.eco.dietitian, where he shares information on plant-based eating and how our diet choices impact the environment. Outside of the nutrition world, he enjoys spending time in the Colorado mountains, hiking the many 14,000+ ft peaks and photographing the beautiful landscapes and wildlife. He also loves going on walks with his wife and dog, cooking, playing board games, reading epic fantasy novels (think Lord of the Rings) and staying active through weight training, basketball and kickboxing.   

Monica Aggarwal, MD, is an adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine in the University of Florida Division of Cardiovascular Medicine. She received her medical degree from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and subsequently went on to complete a residency in internal medicine at Tufts-New England Medical Center. She then completed a cardiology fellowship at the University of Maryland.

Dr. Aggarwal’s own path to understanding the impact of nutrition in illness started soon after the birth of her third child, when she developed an advanced form of rheumatoid arthritis. She was placed on medications that gave her severe side effects. It was only through learning about the microbiome (gut), its impact on the immune system and the role of nutrition in affecting the gut, was she able to truly heal. Determined to change the face of medicine, Monica left private practice and returned to academics in order to pursue research on the role of diet and to create an integrative cardiology practice focused on nutrition and lifestyle.

Dr. Aggarwal served as the Director of Integrative Cardiology and Prevention at the University of Florida for 4 ½ years. There, she focused on promoting food as the foundation of healing and for its medicinal value. In her clinic, she emphasizes plant-based nutrition and often performs multiple mind-body techniques with her patients, including yoga and meditation. At University of Florida, she was also the Director of Medical Education for Cardiology, where she directed education for medical residents and cardiology fellows, with a focus on prevention, nutrition, and lifestyle. In the hospital, she has multiple initiatives including developing a 100% plant-based menu for cardiac and vascular patients.

Dr. Aggarwal gives talks around the community and the country. She was named a “Next Generation Innovator” by Cardiology Today. She is often featured in Veg News, Naked Magazine and has been featured in forksoverknives.com. She conducts research on nutrition education in medical institutions and on how a plant-based diet impacts cardiovascular disease. She has published in major medical journals such as Journal of American College of Cardiology and American Journal of Medicine.

Board certified in cardiology, echocardiography, nuclear cardiology and advanced lipidology, she is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), where she is a member of the nutrition council working on nutrition policies for the nation. Dr. Aggarwal specializes in preventative management of heart disease with lifestyle techniques in conjunction with medications. She is the author of the book “Body on Fire: How Inflammation Triggers Chronic Illness and the Tools We Have to Fight It,” which outlines prescriptions to help guide people to better health.

She has instituted a new plant-based menu at the University of Florida/Shands Hospital which is receiving national attention along with new discharge education that empowers patients to heal their bodies with their lifestyles. She was recently named Florida’s Cardiovascular Researcher of the year which provided her with a grant to conduct the important research needed on nutrition.

She currently sees patients in Orlando, Florida and via telehealth as part of Wholistic Cardiology and conducts research at the University of Florida.

Andrew M. Freeman MD, FACC, FACP joined National Jewish Health in Denver, CO after completing his training in Philadelphia at Temple University. Prior to that, he completed his internal medicine training at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He completed medical school at SUNY Buffalo with research honors after graduating summe cum laude from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. At National Jewish, he serves as the director of clinical cardiology and the director of cardiovascular prevention and wellness, and is an Associate Professor of Medicine.

Dr. Freeman also hosts a monthly Walk with a Doc program (https://Denver.WalkWithADoc.Org) in the Denver area where he volunteers his time to walk with patients on Saturday mornings to teach key health concepts, but also to explore using exercise as medicine for the greater good of the public. Finally, Dr. Freeman holds some leadership positions in the Colorado American College of Cardiology as well as at the national level, including founding chair of the Lifestyle and Nutrition Workgroup and has sat on the steering committee for the Cardiovascular Disease Prevention council and numerous other committees. He currently sits on the Science and Quality Committee and Digital Steering Committee. At National Jewish Health he started and oversees the Ornish Intensive Cardiac Rehab. He regularly publishes scholarly manuscripts on plant-based nutrition. An avid teacher and educator, Dr. Freeman teaches medical, physician assistant and pharmacy students regularly, and has hosted many community lectures and CME programs. He is a regular feature at VegFest Colorado and continues to expand his teaching and messages of prevention and wellness all over Colorado.

As a lifelong technology enthusiast and innovator, he is active in the medical technology space, regularly serving both the American College of Cardiology as a consultant and also helps medical startups with product and business strategy.

The message is clear: The time to transform the food system is now. Our current food system is one of the single largest pressures on our planet, threatening the very operating systems of Earth itself.  And a cascade of recent global reports cite the urgent need to evolve modern food systems to become more equitable, sustainable, culturally responsive and diverse. 

Nutrition professionals are a critical component of how we get there.

Launching in parallel with the UN Food Systems Summit, this webinar shares top findings from Food + Planet’s new White Paper- featuring 8 essential strategies of how nutrition professionals can accelerate the transition to more just and sustainable food systems in their practices and in our profession. 

The paper also conducted a scoping review that investigated alignments and differences across healthy and sustainable diet recommendations from landmark global reports and national food based dietary guidelines.

Identifying current barriers and highlighting key leverage points for nutrition professionals to engage, we can begin to unlock the vast potential of this global community to help accelerate the transition to more sustainable, regenerative, and equitable food systems.

Speakers: Selena Ahmed, PhD, Becky Ramsing, MPH, RDN, David L. Katz, MD, MPH, Liesel Carlsson, PhD

Becky Ramsing, MPH, RDN is a senior program officer at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF), where she oversees research, communication, evaluation and programs that facilitate a shift toward sustainable, healthy diets. She is also responsible for managing the Center’s science advisory role with the Meatless Monday Campaign. Prior to joining the CLF, Becky worked as a Technical Advisor for Nutrition and Food Security to projects in Afghanistan and Ethiopia, helping women produce and utilize food for family consumption and income generation. She also worked as a nutrition consultant for community, worksite, and school-based programs developing and implementing health and nutrition curricula. Becky studied nutrition at the University of California, Davis and became a registered dietitian in 1990. Early career, she worked clinically at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and then internationally developing a clinic-based diabetes nutrition education program in Tanzania. She returned to the states to obtain her Master’s in Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and has since continued to focus on helping individuals and organizations make healthful, lifestyle choices that are evidence based, relevant, and sustainable.

Liesel Carlsson, PhD is a dietitian and Assistant Professor in the School of Nutrition and Dietetics at Acadia University. She was the Co-chair of the DC Sustainable Food Systems Leadership Team, with Roxane Wagner, from 2016-2019. Her research and community work circles around community-level engagement with global goals for sustainable food, and currently, the strategic role of dietitians in that work. She volunteers to support garden-based learning and sustainable food policy in her community.

Selena Ahmed, PhD is the Assistant Professor of Sustainable Food Systems, and the Principal Investigator at the Agroecology and Ethnobotany Group of the Food and Health Lab, Montana State University. Dr. Ahmed is an ethnobotanist with research and outreach interests at the intersection of the ecological, cultural, and health aspects of food systems. The ultimate translational goal of her collaborative research program is to transform the food system through evidence-based innovations that support human and planetary health. In particular, Dr. Ahmed is interested in identifying the socio-ecological determinants of wellbeing in the food system with a focus on wild and cultivated food environments. Since 2003, she has carried out food systems research in indigenous and rural communities in China, India, Morocco, Venezuela, Belize, the Dominican Republic, and the United States. This work involves quantifying the influence of agricultural practices and food environments on biodiversity, crop quality, livelihoods, food security, diets, and health outcomes in the context of global change.

David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP, FACLM is a specialist in Preventive Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine, with particular expertise in nutrition. He earned his BA at Dartmouth College (1984); his MD at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1988); and his MPH from the Yale University School of Public Health (1993).  He completed sequential residency training and board certification in Internal Medicine (1991) and Preventive Medicine/Public Health (1993).  

Katz is the founder and former director of Yale University’s Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center (1998-2019); Past President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine; President and Founder of the non-profit True Health Initiative; and Founder and CEO of Diet ID, Inc. He is a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine; the American College of Physicians; the American College of Lifestyle Medicine; and Morse College, Yale University. 

The recipient of numerous awards for teaching, writing, and contributions to public health, Katz was a 2019 James Beard Foundation Award nominee in health journalism, has been a widely supported nominee for the position of U.S. Surgeon General, and has received three honorary doctorates.  His most recent book, How to Eat, co-authored with Mark Bittman, is a 2021 IACP Awards finalist.

Katz has an extensive media portfolio, having served as a nutrition columnist for O, the Oprah Magazine; an on-air contributor for ABC News/Good Morning America, and with appearances on most major news programs and contributions to most major magazines and leading newspapers, including OpEds in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.  He is one of the original 150 “Influencers” selected by LinkedIN, and has a social media following of nearly one million.

He holds multiple US patents; has over 200 peer-reviewed publications; has published many hundreds of on-line and newspaper columns; and has authored/co-authored 19 books to date including multiple editions of leading textbooks in nutrition, preventive medicine, and epidemiology. 

His career-long focus has been the translation of science into action for the addition of years to life, and life to years, and on the confluence of human and planetary health.

On the COVID pandemic, he has advocated consistently for a policy of total harm minimization (https://www.truehealthinitiative.org/covid/) by means of risk-stratified interdiction efforts.

Katz has presented at conferences in all 50 U.S. states and in multiple countries on six continents.  He has been recognized by peers as the “poet laureate of health promotion.”

He and his wife, Catherine, live in Connecticut.  They have five grown children.

Speakers explore how and why prioritizing employee health is a value proposition around productivity, retention, well-being, and organizational benefits. Speakers discuss the evidence to date on the effect of diet on health risk outcomes, why it is so important to invest in employee health—beyond reduction in claim costs—and how that knowledge can be applied in effective employee wellness solutions.

Speakers: Walter Willett, MD, DrPH; Sari Kalin, MS, RD, LDN; Tim O’Neil, MBA; Sara Martin, MS

Tim O’Neil, MBA is the Executive Director, Employee Experience, Benefits and Wellness at Meredith Corporation, where he develops and integrates best-in-class employee health and financial wellness programs with progressive and proactive benefit plan design. Under his direction, Meredith has received national recognition and won numerous awards for its innovative approach to engaging employees and families through fun, inspiring, and motivating campaigns. Meredith was named to the Top 100 Healthiest Employers list in both 2018 and 2020, and listed on Forbes’ Best Mid-Sized Employers list. In 2019 Tim was named one of 20 Digital Innovators by Employee Benefit News, and in 2020 was the Employee Benefit News Editors Pic for Benefits Professional of the Year “Benny Awards.” Tim, who has a background in exercise science, has become a nationally recognized champion for worksite wellness -- most recently speaking at events on medical plan management, developing motivating health improvement campaigns, and best practices in employee engagement.

Sara Martin, MS is the Chief Executive Officer for Welcoa, the Wellness Council of America, which is one of the nation’s most-respected resources for building high-performing, healthy workplaces. Its mission is to help business and health professionals improve employee well-being and create healthier organizational cultures. Sara has launched award-winning wellness programs and engineered work environments to create cultures of health across multiple industries. At WELCOA, her role is to ensure continuous access to the best products and information so you can every member can achieve their professional and personal wellness goals.

Sari Kalin, MS, RD, LDN is Assistant Director, AVP of Health and Well-Being Strategy at Liberty Mutual Insurance, where she focuses on identifying strategies and tactics to improve the health and overall well-being of Liberty’s U.S. employees and their families. She is also the co-lead of the Mental Health Advisory Committee for Able@Liberty + Allies, Liberty’s newest employee resource group that promotes an inclusive and equitable culture for individuals with disabilities as well as caregivers and family members. She has extensive experience developing well-being strategy and programs in corporate, community and academic settings. She is a co-author of Eat Well & Keep Moving, Third Edition, a nutrition and physical activity curriculum for upper elementary students. As a Registered and Licensed Dietitian/Nutritionist, Sari has counseled hundreds of children, adults, and families on healthy eating and active lifestyles. She also worked as a professional writer for more than a decade, covering beats from city hall to cyberspace. Sari has a bachelor's degree in Psychobiology from Wellesley College, a master's degree in Journalism from Columbia University, and a master's degree in Nutrition and Health Promotion from Simmons College.

Walter Willett, MD, DrPH is Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is a renowned physician, nutrition researcher, and the most cited nutritionist internationally. Dr. Willett has published over 1,500 scientific articles regarding various aspects of diet and disease and is the second most cited author in clinical medicine. Dr. Willett studied food science at Michigan State University, and graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School before obtaining a Masters and Doctorate in Public Health from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Willett has focused much of his work over the last 40 years on the development and evaluation of methods, using both questionnaire and biochemical approaches, to study the effects of diet on the occurrence of major diseases.  He has applied these methods starting in 1980 in the Nurses’ Health Studies I and II and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study.  Together, these cohorts that include nearly 300,000 men and women with repeated dietary assessments, are providing the most detailed information on the long-term health consequences of food choices. Dr. Willett has published over 1,700 original research papers and reviews, primarily on lifestyle risk factors for heart disease, cancer, and other conditions, and has written the textbook, Nutritional Epidemiology, published by Oxford University Press, now in its third edition. He also has written four books for the general public.  He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the recipient of many national and international awards for his research.

Speakers explore the role of protein in human health, reaching beyond protein adequacy. They cover history of protein nutrition, including how and why amino acid studies have shaped our understanding and misunderstanding of protein in human health, as well as popular and commercial emphasis on protein in the diet. They describe relevant scientific studies on different protein sources and their effect on health risk and outcomes. Finally, they discuss a potential new, more inclusive and evidence-based definition of protein quality, as well as touch on the implications of protein agriculture on planetary health.

Speakers: Christopher Gardner, David Jenkins, David Katz, and Linda Snetselaar

Linda G. Snetselaar, PhD, RD, FAND, LD is a Professor in Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Iowa. She has over 230 publications including two textbooks. She directs a Nutrition Center and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Dr. Snetselaar has been PI/Co-PI of numerous NIH funded research studies including the Lipid Research Clinics Studies, Diabetes Control and Complications Trial, Modification of Diet in Renal Disease Study, Dietary Intervention Study in Children, Women’s Health Initiative and the Women’s Intervention Nutrition Study; her current research focuses on dietary interventions in community settings and randomized controlled trials using dietary patterns in treating persons with autoimmune diseases. Dr. Snetselaar was also on the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Dietary Guidelines for Americans in 2020.

Dr. Christopher Gardner holds a PhD in Nutrition Science and is a Professor of Medicine at Stanford. He has served on numerous committees, including the Nutrition Committee of the American Heart Association and currently on the scientific advisory board of the Culinary Institute of America. Over the past 20+ years, he has conducted more than a dozen human nutrition trials and has examined the potential health benefits of dietary components such as soy, garlic, antioxidants, ginkgo, omega-3 fats, and vegetarian diets. All of these studies have involved extensive collection of dietary assessment data. He recently completed a 12-month weight loss diet study among 609 overweight and obese adults, a total of over 5,500 24-hour diet recalls were administered using NDS-R. Dr. Gardner’s research group recently created, tested, and published the results from a study testing a smart-phone app designed to promote and track vegetable consumption.

David JA Jenkins, MD, PhD, DSc is a professor in the Departments of Nutritional Sciences and Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, where he serves as chair for Nutrition and Metabolism. He is a staff physician in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, the Director of the Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Centre, and a Scientist in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital. His studies led to the development of the glycemic index and the plant based dietary portfolio for cholesterol reduction that aimed to link improved human health with the growing concern over human feeding patterns on environmental health. 

David L. Katz, MD, MPH, the Founder & CEO of Diet ID, was the founding director (1998) of Yale University’s Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, Past-President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and Founder/President of the True Health Initiative. Read more.

In this webinar led by Dr. David Katz, our expert panel explores potential ethnic gaps in health promotion and nutrition education, while presenting strategies to increase diversity and better reflect the cultural and food traditions of the people and communities served by health professionals. The speakers discuss practical, effective ways to bridge those gaps, such as increasing representation of diverse diet patterns and cultural/food traditions, as well as promoting inclusivity in public health messaging. They demonstrate evidence-based approaches and challenges, and showcase their own work in diversity, ethnic diets, and health promotion.

Speakers: Sara Baer-Sinnott, Sylvia Klinger, and Tamara Melton

TAMARA S. MELTON, MS, RDN, CPHIMS is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Diversify Dietetics, a nonprofit organization on a mission to increase the racial and ethnic diversity in the field of nutrition by empowering nutrition leaders of color. Tamara’s first love is teaching and she has taught and advised thousands of students. She had the opportunity to found and develop Georgia State University’s first Health Informatics program, where she used unconventional methods to recruit and retain a majority BIPOC student body. It was her experience serving in this role and watching her students flourish and succeed that gave her the idea for Diversify Dietetics. Tamara had a hunch that an organization led by professionals of color, supported by a community passionate about diversifying the healthcare profession, would attract more students of color to the field of nutrition and dietetics. Tamara also owns Tamara’s Table, a virtual practice providing functional nutrition counseling for women of color.

SYLVIA KLINGER, MS, RD, DBA, LDN, CPT is an internationally recognized nutrition expert who is relentlessly passionate about helping people fall in love with the process of creating and enjoying delicious but most importantly, nutritious foods. A food and nutrition communications professional, award-winning author and global nutrition professor Dr. Sylvia Klinger is founder of Hispanic Food Communications. Born in Puerto Rico and raised in Mexico City, Sylvia is bi-lingual in English and Spanish and has over 35 years of professional experience in the areas of weight management, plant-based nutrition, maternal and lactation nutrition, cultural diversity, and optimal wellness and disease prevention. It’s her Hispanic background that has fueled her passion for nutrition, which has led her to empower and encourage those in her community through the foods they make in their kitchens. Understanding that everyone’s needs are different, Sylvia seeks to individualize nutrition, so that it can be a highly beneficial experience to us all during the unique journey we are here to live. Her latest publication, The Little Book of Simple Eating was published in 2018 in both English and Spanish.

SARA BAER-SINNOTT is President of Oldways, a food and nutrition nonprofit helping people live healthier and happier lives through cultural food traditions. In her 29 years at Oldways, Sara has been an integral part of Oldways’ growth and success. She has helped develop ground-breaking programs including its Traditional Diet Pyramids, Whole Grains Council, and Culinary Travel.  She has a B.A. in Economics from Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and an M.A. in Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. 

Lifestyle Medicine is evolving and innovating in the midst of the pandemic and technological advances. This webinar, jointly presented by Spectrum Health and Diet ID, will provide an overview of the innovative approach of the Lifestyle Medicine Specialty practice at Spectrum Health. Spectrum clinicians will join Dr. David Katz, Diet ID founder and CEO, to discuss the unique aspects of their enhanced virtual CHIP intervention using Diet ID's diet assessment platform, including the significant value of leveraging digital health solutions to support and track health behavior change, drive improved patient outcomes, predict future cost savings and bring lifestyle medicine interventions to scale for populations.

Speakers: Kristi Artz, MD, Leanne Mauriello, PhD, Kara Tibbe, MBA

Dr. Kristi Artz, MD is the Medical Director of Lifestyle Medicine at Spectrum Health. Dr. Artz focuses on living a healthy lifestyle for herself and her family but also encourages it for her patients. Motivated by treating patients with acute and chronic illnesses, her work is focused on reimagining how we connect with patients using personalized lifestyle interventions. She is board certified in emergency medicine, a diplomate of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine and serves as Medical Director of Lifestyle Medicine and Virtual Health as well as the lead physician of the Culinary Medicine program at Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids, MI.

Dr. Leanne Mauriello, PhD is the Director of Lifestyle Medicine at Spectrum Health, where she brings expertise in patient engagement, health behavior change science, and digital health to lead the development and implementation of evidence-based Lifestyle Medicine programs for Spectrum Health’s employees and patients and their surrounding communities. Her goal is to support and empower individuals to make meaningful and lasting lifestyle changes to optimize health and well-being.

Kara Tibbe, MBA, is a Clinical Program Specialist and Certified Health and Wellness Coach on the Lifestyle Medicine Team.  Kara focuses on leading and implementing new programs within the Lifestyle Medicine Practice, specializes in Digital Health and Telemedicine and co-facilitates the Complete Health improvement program. 

Ultra-processed foods are important both as a way to categorize food descriptively, and as a way to quantify and analyze diet in terms of health risk. But what does ultra-processed mean, and what are the different levels of ultra-processing? What do the data tell us about the link between ultra-processed food intake and chronic disease risk? When evaluating diet quality, how does using level of ultra-processing compare to using nutrient adequacy? How did ultra-processed foods dominate our food supply and shape eating habits, and what can we do about it?

SPEAKERS: Kevin Hall, PhD; Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH; Carlos Monteiro, MD, PhD; and David Katz, MD, MPH

This phenomenal panel of experts discuss their research on the relationship between nutrition and mental health issues such as depression, anxiety, and cognitive decline, and offer practical advice on what we can do to help patients and clients eat for a healthier brain!

SPEAKERS: Umadevi Naidoo, MD; Ayesha Sherzai, MD; Dean Sherzai, MD, PhD, Christy Tangney, PhD, FACN, CNS, and David L. Katz, MD, MPH

A timely, a candid, expert-led conversation about social justice and disparities related to dietary intake patterns and health outcomes.

SPEAKERS: Mary Murimi, PhD, RD, LDN; Kim Williams, MD; and Mark Bittman. Moderated by David L. Katz, MD, MPH

Our presenters explore the relationship between lifestyle diseases (such as obesity, hypertension, and other co-morbid conditions) and outcomes risks in COVID-19 patients. They discuss the scientific evidence to date as well as direct clinical observations.

SPEAKERS: David L. Katz, MD, MPH; Candace D. McNaughton, MD, PhD, MPH; Robert J. Ostfeld, MD, MSc, FACC.

David L. Katz, MD, MPH, the Founder & CEO of Diet ID, was the founding director (1998) of Yale University’s Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, Past-President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and Founder/President of the True Health Initiative.  Read more.  

Robert J. Ostfeld, MD, MSc, FACC, is the Director of Preventive Cardiology at Montefiore Health System and a Professor of Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Ostfeld treats patients with adult cardiovascular disease, including coronary artery disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and erectile dysfunction with a focus on prevention and treatment through lifestyle change. He works closely with his patients to help them adopt a plant-based diet. Read more.

Candace D. McNaughton, MD, PhD, MPH, is a clinician, associate professor, and researcher whose interests include determinants of hypertension control such as numeracy, health literacy, and medication adherence, with an emphasis on patients who seek care in the emergency department. After residency training in emergency medicine at Vanderbilt, Dr. McNaughton obtained a Masters of Public Health from Vanderbilt, completed the two year VA Quality Scholars fellowship, and earned her doctoral degree in epidemiology. Read more.

A strong immune system goes hand-in-hand with a healthy diet and lifestyle. But the information flooding the internet about using food and supplements to protect against COVID-19 is often misleading or even dangerous. Get expert answers to the most important questions about nutrition, immunity, and what people can do to truly reduce their risk. 

SPEAKERS: David L. Katz, MD, MPH; Philip Calder, PhD, DPhil, RNutr, FSB, FAfN; Joshua Levitt, ND; and Kathleen Zelman, MPH, RD.

Dr. David L. Katz MD, MPH, the Founder & CEO of Diet ID, was the founding director (1998) of Yale University’s Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, Past-President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and Founder/President of the True Health Initiative.  Read more.  

Professor Philip Calder, PhD, DPhil, RNutr, FSB, FAfN is Head of Human Development & Health and Professor of Nutritional Immunology within Medicine at the University of Southampton. His work explores how nutrition affects the functioning of the human body, in order to develop strategies to improve human health and well-being, to lower disease risk and to treat nutrition-related illnesses. He is an expert in nutritional modulation of immunity, inflammation and cardiometabolic disease risk, much of which has focused on the related functionality of fatty acids, with an emphasis on the roles of omega-3 fatty acids. Dr. Calder has over 500 scientific publications and is the recipient of numerous accolades and awards. He was President of the Nutrition Society (2016-2019) and is currently President of the Federation of European Nutrition societies. He was Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Nutrition from 2006 to 2013, and currently an Associate Editor of Clinical Science, Journal of Nutrition, and Nutrition Research. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society for Biology, the Association for Nutrition, the Higher Education Academy and ISSFAL.

Joshua Levitt, ND, is a naturopathic physician at Whole Health Natural Family Medicine where he specializes in natural family medicine with a subspecialty in orthopedic. Dr. Levitt’s earned a degree in physiology from UCLA, a doctorate in naturopathic medicine from Bastyr University, performed residency training in integrative medicine in Seattle, and has had over 15 years of direct clinical experience with thousands of patients. In addition to his clinical work, Dr. Levitt is the author and creator of several popular books, and many articles and videos, all of which demonstrate his passion and commitment to bringing information and products to you that can help you achieve your health and wellness goals.  Read more.

Kathleen Zelman, MPH, RD, is director of nutrition for WebMD, overseeing diet, nutrition, and food information. She has extensive media experience, including co-hosting a weekly radio program, 12 years as a national spokeswoman for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND), and numerous print and television appearances. Zelman is an invited speaker at professional meetings worldwide including sharing the stage as the nutrition expert with First Lady Michelle Obama celebrating Let’s Move and with USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack to make comments at the launch of My Plate. Zelman has been a dietetic internship director at Ochsner Medical Institutions and assistant professor of nutrition at St. Mary’s Dominican College, both in New Orleans. She has extensive experience working with children and weight management clients, chefs, and restaurants in analysis and development of healthy recipes.  Read more.

Everyone’s talking about intermittent fasting these days. But not all experts agree. Proponents hail its power to burn fat, slow aging, and reduce disease risk. Skeptics say it is just a way to cut calories, and may even be harmful. In this webinar, Dr. David Katz is joined by guests Dr. Michael Crupain, and Dr. Michael Roizen, co-authors of 'What to Eat When,' to discuss what intermittent fasting is, the different types, and the metabolic effects.  They will talk about food timing, whether or not breakfast is important, if calories count, and more. The presenters will review the scientific evidence around the benefits and risks of various options, and help you make informed decisions for yourself and your patients.

SPEAKERS: Drs. David L. Katz + Michael Crupain

Dr. David L. Katz MD, MPH, the Founder & CEO of Diet ID, was the founding director (1998) of Yale University’s Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, Past-President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and Founder/President of the True Health Initiative. Read more.

Michael Crupain, MD, MPH is a board-certified preventive medicine physician whose mission is to make the world a healthier place.  Dr. Crupain also serves as the chief medical officer of Sharecare, medical unit chief of staff at “The Dr. Oz Show,” and is a multiple Emmy® Award-winning producer and author of the best-selling book “What to Eat When.”  Read more.

Everyone wants to know: which diet should I follow? Who should we listen to? Nutrition science experts pose the question: Can We Say What Diet is Best? What does the best research REALLY tell us? Cut through the media muck and understand what it truly means to eat in a way that adds years to life and life to years.

SPEAKERS: David Katz & Christopher Gardner

Dr. David L. Katz MD, MPH, the Founder & CEO of Diet ID, was the founding director (1998) of Yale University’s Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, Past-President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and Founder/President of the True Health Initiative. Read more.

Dr. Christopher Gardner has a PhD in Nutrition Science and is a Professor of Medicine at Stanford’s School of Medicine. Read more.

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Recent "guidelines" to keep eating processed meat at current levels, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, rocked the nutrition world, and spawned headlines around the globe. A response by leading nutrition experts was coordinated by the True Health Initiative. This webinar will discuss those guidelines, and the evidence on which they were based, and will characterize the global response by the nutrition community. As President of the True Health Initiative, Dr. Katz will provide a unique, insider's view of how it all played out behind the scenes.

SPEAKER: David Katz

Dr. David L. Katz MD, MPH, the Founder & CEO of Diet ID, was the founding director (1998) of Yale University’s Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, Past-President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and Founder/President of the True Health Initiative. Read more.