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  • Saturday, July 25, 2026
  • 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM ET
    How Should Medical Students and Other Trainees Learn the Science of Nutrition? - 2026 Robert Suskind and Leslie Lewinter-Suskind Pediatric Nutrition Lifetime Achievement Award Lecture and Student Awards
    Chair: Robert Suskind, MD – California University of Science and Medicine
    Speaker: Christopher P. Duggan, MD, MPH (he/him/his) – Boston Children's Hospital
    Presenting Author: Qi Chen, Ph.D. – The Pennsylvania State University
    Presenting Author: Katherine Y. Kwon, MS, RDN, IBCLC (she/her/hers) – University of California, Davis
    Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/MetabolismClinical and Translational Nutrition
  • Sunday, July 26, 2026
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM ET
    Food is Medicine: Hype or Hope? - The Journal of Nutrition's 2026 Mal Nesheim Nutrition Landscape Award Lecture
    Chair: Xingen Lei, PhD – Cornell University
    Speaker: Frank B. Hu, MD, MPH, PhD (he/him/his) – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
    Speaker: Sander Kersten, PhD – Cornell University
  • 5:45 PM - 6:45 PM ET
    Micronutrients and Metabolism as Architects of Skeletal Muscle Physiology: Extending Dam's Legacy - The 2026 ASN Foundation-Novo Nordisk Foundation Henrik Dam Award Lecture
    Chair: Paul M. Coates, PhD – American Society for Nutrition
    Speaker: Anna Thalacker-Mercer, PhD – The University of Alabama at Birmingham
    Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/MetabolismClinical and Translational Nutrition
  • Monday, July 27, 2026
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM ET
    Innovative Approaches in Childhood Obesity: ASN Foundation-Novo Nordisk Foundation Flemming Quaade Emerging Investigators
    Speaker: Andrew Agbaje, MD, MPH, PhD, FACC, FESC, FAHA, FNYAM – University of Eastern Finland
    Speaker: Katherine Li – Novo Nordisk Foundation
    Speaker: Rachel C. Whooten, MD, MPH – Massachusetts General Hospital for Children
    Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/MetabolismClinical and Translational NutritionCommunity and Public Health Nutrition
  • 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM ET
    Adipose Neighborhoods: Depot-Dependent Biology and Metabolic Health - The 2026 George Bray Outstanding Scientific Achievements Award in Obesity Research Lecture and Student Awards
    Chair: Judith Storch, PhD – Rutgers University
    Speaker: Susan K. Fried, PhD (she/her/hers) – Rutgers Univ.
    Presenting Author: Maurya Hart, BSc, RD – University of Toronto
    Presenting Author: Judy Kim, MSc – University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    Cellular and Physiological Nutrition/MetabolismClinical and Translational Nutrition
  • 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM ET
    2026 Jean-Pierre Habicht Lifetime Achievements in Global Nutrition Award Lecture and Global Nutrition Council Forum
    Chair: Lindsey M. Locks, ScD MPH (she/her/hers) – Boston University
    Speaker: Wafaie W. Fawzi, MBBS. DrPH (he/him/his) – Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
    Speaker: Lindsey M. Locks, ScD MPH (she/her/hers) – Boston University
    Clinical and Translational NutritionCommunity and Public Health NutritionGlobal Nutrition