ILSI 2022 Annual Meeting Session 2: Improving nutrition for public benefit

Tuesday, June 28 | 10:30 - 12:30

Co-Chairs: Professor Philip Calder, Head of Human Development & Health and Professor of Nutritional Immunology within Medicine at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom and Dr. Laurent Le Bellego, Scientific Relations Director, Research and Innovation, Danone, France

Development and application of nutrient bioavailability algorithms – Dr. Connie Weaver, University of San Diego, USA and Dr. Jeremy Hill, Chief Science & Technology Officer, Fonterra, New Zealand
Identifying and treating malnutrition in community-living seniors – Dr. Heather Keller, University of Waterloo, Canada
Steps towards precision nutrition – Dr. Jose Ordovas, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, USA
Towards a healthy human microbiome – Dr. Seppo Salminen, Director, Functional Foods Forum, University of Turku, Finland

Philip Calder Laurent Le Bellego Connie Weaver Jeremy Hill Heather Keller Jose Ordovas Seppo Salminen

Philip Calder

Professor Philip Calder, Head of Human Development & Health and Professor of Nutritional Immunology within Medicine at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Laurent Le Bellego

Connie Weaver

Jeremy Hill

Heather Keller

Identifying and treating malnutrition in community-living seniors – Dr. Heather Keller, University of Waterloo, Canada

Abstract: With the aging of the world and the recent global experience of COVID-19, there is increasing recognition of the importance of preventing frailty and promoting healthy aging. Nutrition is a key determinant of frailty and prevention of malnutrition through early identification of nutrition risk is needed. This presentation will describe evidence-based pathways for malnutrition prevention, detection and treatment and evidence-informed treatment options for older adults identified to be at nutrition risk or malnourished in the community setting.

Heather Keller, RD, PhD, FDC, FCAHS, is the Schlegel Research Chair in Nutrition & Aging at the University of Waterloo. She is an internationally recognized expert in geriatric nutrition, assessment and treatment. As a founding member and past chair/co-chair (2009-2018) of the Canadian Malnutrition Task Force (CMTF), she is involved in translating research into practice and advocating for improvements in nutrition care. She is currently the co-chair of the primary care working group for CMTF and involved in several national and international expert groups advancing the prevention, detection and treatment of malnutrition.

Jose Ordovas

Steps towards precision nutrition – Dr. Jose Ordovas, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, USA

Abstract: General dietary guidelines have not achieved the objective of reducing nutrition-related diseases, as they do not yet include how to address the inter-individual variability in response to the foods consumed. The molecular bases of this variability are complex and partially defined by our genome and microbiome. Their elucidation is the objective of Precision Nutrition, driven by large intervention studies such as PREDICT and the NIH Nutrition for Precision Health.

Dr. Jose Ordovas is Professor of Nutrition and a Senior Scientist at the USDA-HNRCA at Tufts University in Boston, where he also is the Director of the Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory. His research interest focuses on the genetic and epigenetic factors predisposing to age-related chronic diseases and their interaction with dietary environmental, behavioral and chronobiological factors. He has published over 900 scientific articles (h-index 143).

Seppo Salminen