Event Schedule
Thursday, April 16th
AM
8:00
Check In, Light Breakfast, Introductions
9:30
Protein-Rich Food Choices for Cardiometabolic Health; Does it Really Matter?
Speaker - Wayne Campbell, PhD
10:30
Symposium - Novel Therapies for Nutrition Related Diseases
Dan Bessesen - The Evolving Landscape of Antiobesity Medications, Implications for our Understanding of Body Weight Regulation
Amandine Chaix - Ketogenic Diet for Type 2 Diabetes Management: Fat Chance!
Lisa Beutler - Dissecting the Gut-Brain Dynamics of Anorexia and Aversion
PM
12:00
Lunch/Break
1:30
Symposium - Infant and Maternal Nutrition
Minghua Tang - Why Diet Matters for the Little Ones: the Impact of Complementary Feeding on Infant Growth and Development
Teri Hernandez - In Defense of Carbs: Challenging the Low-Carbohydrate Diet for Gestational Diabetes
Michelle Baack - As a Matter of Fat: Periconceptual Diets to Shape Pregnancy Outcomes and Generational Health
3:00
Insights from Diet, Nature & Evolution on the Cause of Metabolic Diseases
Speaker - Richard Johnson, MD
4:15
Poster Session & Happy Hour
Friday, April 17th
AM
8:00
Breakfast
8:30
TBD
Speaker - Christopher Gardner, PhD
9:45
Lightning Talks
11:00
Navigating Change in Today's Public Health Nutrition Landscape
Speaker - Carmen Byker Shanks, PhD, RDN
PM
12:00
Lunch/Break
1:30
Symposium - Nutrition and Aging
Tom LaRocca - Brain Aging, Molecular Genetics, and Nutraceuticals
Josie Broussard - Sleep and Circadian Disruption: a Model of Accelerated Aging Across Multiple Physiological Systems
Sarah Elzinga - At the Nexus of Obesity, Prediabetes, and Aging: Is Neuroinflammation the Common Denominator in Dementia?
3:30
Awards & Closing Remarks
***CEU credits are available for each main speaker and symposium with a total of 8.5 credits.
Please submit attendance to Zara Hopkins for your certificate. Zara.Hopkins@colostate.edu
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