Chairs

Patrick J. Stover, PhD
President, American Society for Nutrition
Professor and Division Director, Cornell University, Division of Nutritional Sciences

Presentations

Achieving Precision Nutrition in Public Health, Dietary Guidance and Food Systems: Mathematical and computational Approaches from Complexity Systems,  Ross Hammond, Brookings Institution

Small Data and mHealth, Deborah Estrin, Cornell Tech

100K Wellness Project:  The First-ever Broadly Integrative Approach to Scientific Wellness, Nathan Price: Institute for Systems Biology; Departments of Bioengineering, Computer Science & Engineering, and Molecular & Cellular Biology at the University of Washington

Metabolomics Approaches to Classifying Patient Populations and Identifying Responders and Non-Responders to Nutrition Interventions,  Karsten Hiller, Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine

Panel Discussion

Moderator:
Cutberto Garza, MD, PhD, Boston College
Chair; Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine

Panelists:
Amanda MacFarlane, Health Canada
Denny Bier, Children’s Nutrition Research Center
Keith West, John’s Hopkins University
Susan Mayne, Food and Drug Administration
Christine Olson, Cornell University

Description:  Securing adequate nutrition is a fundamental challenge for all life forms. Organisms have evolved complex adaptive systems that both define and buffer nutritional needs at all levels of biological organization, from cells to society.  Systems approaches are emerging rapidly and revolutionizing our approaches to studying and understanding the complexity of human metabolism, physiology and behaviors, as well as the environment that sustains life and its relationships to the food system.  The convergence of “big data”, the genomics revolution, and the computer and engineering sciences with the nutrition sciences promise to transform dietary approaches for the prevention and management of chronic disease through personalized nutrition, as well as implementation of more effective nutrition interventions and food systems that support global and public health.  This session will highlight the current state and future prospects of systems approaches across the spectrum of the nutritional sciences, from both insider and outsider perspectives.