Disclosure Policy

The American Society for Nutrition supports fair and unbiased participation of individuals in its education activities. Any real or potential conflicts of interest must be identified and managed. All relevant financial relationships with commercial interests that directly impact and/or might conflict with ASN activities must be disclosed, or disclosure that no relevant financial relationships exist must be documented. Other relationships that could cause private interests to conflict with professional interests must also be disclosed. This policy is intended to openly identify any potential conflict so that participants in an education activity are able to form their own judgments about the presentation. In addition, disclosure must be made of presentations on drugs or devices or uses of drugs or devices that have not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. 

It is the policy of the American Society of Nutrition, in compliance with the Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education to ensure that education presents learners with only accurate, balanced, and scientifically justified recommendations and protects learners from promotion, marketing, and commercial bias. ASN requires disclosure of all financial interest that the planning committee (including ASN staff) or faculty members have with ineligible companies. All faculty and contributors to this continuing education activity have disclosed any relevant financial relationship that may have direct bearing on the subject matter of this program.  Specific disclosure information is in the course materials.

As part ASN’s commitment to meeting the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education and Guidance on the Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Accredited Continuing Education (CE), use of AI by faculty and planners of this educational activity is also disclosed to learners.

Disclosures

Disclosures for planners, faculty and staff for all sessions for which CME credit for physicians is available are listed below.

Faculty and Planners

Steven Abrams, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin 
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Nancy Aburto, PhD MS
Deputy Director, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Monica Agarwal, MD, MEHP, PNS, FACE
Professor of Medicine and the Director, UAB Obesity Medicine Fellowship Program, University of Alabama at Birmingham
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Tahmeed Ahmed, MBBS, PhD
Executive Director, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Aline Andres, PhD, RD
Professor, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Disclosure(s) of AI Use: 
•    ChatGPT
•    Creating images or graphics (including presentation slides)
•    July 2026

Stephanie Atkinson, PhD
Professor Emerita, McMaster University
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Sylvia Badon, PhD
Research Scientist, Kaiser Permanente Northern California
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Traci Bekelman, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Colorado School of Public Health
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Claire Berryman, PhD, RD
Associate Professor, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Disclosure(s):
•    Eli Lilly: Stock Shareholder (excluding mutual funds) (Ongoing)
•    All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.   

Mia Blakstad, MSc, PhD
Social Protection Specialist, The World Bank
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Sarah Booth, PhD
Senior Scientist, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Sarah Borengasser, PhD, MS
Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research and Training at the Harold Hamm Diabetes Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Andrew Bremer, MD, MAS, PhD
Director, Office of Nutrition Research, National Institutes of Health
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Meg Bruening, PhD, MPH, RD
Professor & Department Head, The Pennsylvania State University
Disclosure(s): 
•    National Dairy Council: Grant/Research Support (Terminated, December 31, 2025)
•    All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.   
Disclosure(s) of AI Use: 
•    Microsoft Copilot
•    Creating images or graphics (including presentation slides) (generated a figure by inputting our introduction and outline)
•    July 2026

Kaelyn Burns, PhD, MS
Postdoctoral Fellow, Metabolic Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics National Cancer Institute
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Carol Byrd-Bredbenner, PhD, RD, FAND
Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Disclosure(s) of AI Use: 
•    ChatGPT and Claude
•    Creating images or graphics (including presentation slides)
•    July 2026

Qi Chen, MS
PhD Student, The Pennsylvania State University
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Disclosure(s) of AI Use: 
•    ChatGPT 5.5
•    Creating images or graphics (including presentation slides) (elected slide figures were generated or refined)
•    July 2026

Catherine Cohen, PhD, RDN
Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

James Collins, PhD
Professor, Human Nutrition, University of Florida
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Sarah Comstock, PhD
Associate Professor, Michigan State University
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Valerie Darcey, PhD, MS, RD, LD
Stadtman Investigator, National Institutes of Health, NIDDK
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Teresa Davis, PhD, DFASN, FASAS
Director, Texas A&M AgriLife Institute for Advancing Health Through Agriculture
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Disclosure(s) of AI Use:
•    Micrsoft CoPilot GPT-5 
•    Creating images or graphics (including presentation slides) (M365 Copilot GPT-5 chat model was used to develop a graph and generic pictures. M365 Copilot follows Texas A&M System security and compliance requirements.)
•    7/6/2026, 7/8/2026, and 7/17/2026

Luz De Regil, PhD
Director, World Health Organization
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Jacques Delarue, MD, PhD
President-Elect, International Union of Nutritional Sciences 
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Disclosure(s) of AI Use:
•    ChatGPT
•    Creating images or graphics (including presentation slides)
•    July 2026

Kathryn Dewey, PhD
Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of California, Davis
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Christopher Duggan, MD, MPH
Editor in Chief, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Boston Children's Hospital 
Disclosure(s): 
•    Bartlett Learning: Royalties or Patent Beneficiary (Ongoing); LWW Wolters Kluwer, Publisher: Royalties or Patent Beneficiary (Ongoing); McGraw Hill: Royalties or Patent Beneficiary (Ongoing)
•    All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.   

Johanna Dwyer, DSc, RD - Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
Disclosure(s): 
•    Editor, Nutrition Today  for Wolters Kluwer Inc Publisher: Independent Contractor (including contracted research) (Ongoing); ICFI contractor to NIH: Independent Contractor (including contracted research) (Terminated, January 12, 2026); LWW Wolters Kluwer, Publisher: Independent Contractor (including contracted research) (Ongoing); McCormick Science Institute: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing); Mushroom Council: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing); SIFBI Singapore Institute of Food Biotechnology and Innovation: Consultant (Terminated, July 31, 2025)
•    All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.   

Ismahane Elouafi, PhD
Executive Managing Director, CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research)
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Wafaie Fawzi, MBBS. DrPH
Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Samaneh Farsijani, PhD, RD
Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Rafaela Feresin, PhD
Associate Professor, Georgia State University
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Martha Field, PhD
Assistant Professor, Cornell University
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Julia Finkelstein, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Cornell University
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Jennifer Fisher, PhD
Professor, Temple University
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Susan Fried, PhD
Visiting Scientist, Rutgers University
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Naomi Fukagawa, MD, PhD
Professor Emerita of Medicine, University of Vermont
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Sarah Gebauer, PhD, FASN
Nutrition Scientist, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Yarden Golan Maor, PhD
Assistant Professor, Cornell University
Disclosure(s): 
•    OnlyOther, Inc: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
•    All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.   
Disclosure(s) of AI Use:
•    ChatGPT
•    Editing or improving writing
•    July 2026

William Hallman, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University 
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Disclosure(s) of AI Use:
•    ChatGPT
•    Editing or improving writing and Other (search engine to find a specific example of precision illusion)
•    July 2026

Maurya Hart, MSc, RD
MSc Student, University of Toronto 
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Disclosure(s) of AI Use:
•    ChatGPT
•    Generating code which was used in R Studio to create figures
•    January-July 2026

Tamar Haspel
Columnist, The Washington Post
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Aaron Hengist, PhD
Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow, National Institutes of Health
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Stephen Hennigar, PhD - Assistant Professor, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Deanna Hoelscher, PhD, RDN, LD, CNS
Regional Campus Dean, Director, and John P. McGovern Professor of Health Promotion, UTHealth Houston School of Public Health in Austin, Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Disclosure(s) of AI Use:
•    ChatGPT
•    Creating images or graphics (including presentation slides)
•    July 2026

Lisa Howley, PhD
Senior Director for Transforming Medical Education, Association of American Medical Colleges
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Frank Hu, MD, MPH, PhD
Chair, Department of Nutrition; Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Disclosure(s) of AI Use:
•    ChatGPT
•    Editing or improving writing, creating images or graphics (including presentation slides)
•    July 2026

Debbie Humphries, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Clinical Public Health, Yale University
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Gordon Jensen, MD, PhD
Senior Associate Dean for Research Emeritus, University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Nicholas Jury, PhD
Strategic Scientific Advisor, National Institutes of Health, Office of Nutrition Research
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

J. Philip Karl, PhD, RD
Nutrition Physiologist, US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM)
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Claudine Kavanaugh, PhD, MPH, RD
Director, HFP, Office of Nutrition and Food Labeling, Food and Drug Administration
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Tanya Khara, MSc
Technical Director, Emergency Nutrition Network
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Disclosure(s) of AI Use:
•    Microsoft Copilot
•    Creating images or graphics (including presentation slides)
•    July 2026

Judy Kim, PhD 
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Kevin Klatt, PhD, RD
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Disclosure(s):
•    Gates Foundation: Consultant (Ongoing)
•    All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.   
Disclosure(s) of AI Use:
•    Claude Opus 4.8
•    Slide aesthetics and text organization including text/points, with final editing and review completed by the speaker
•    July 2026

Bramaramba Kowtha, MS, RDN, LDN
Health Scientist, National Institutes of Health Office of Disease Prevention
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Katherine Kwon, PhD, RDN, IBCLC
PhD Student, University of California, Davis
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Matthew Landry, PhD, RDN, FAND
Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Bruce Lee, MD, MBA
Professor, Health Policy and Management, City University of New York
Disclosure(s): 
•    Moderna: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing); Vaxcyte: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing)
•    All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.   
Disclosure(s) of AI Use:
•    ChatGPT
•    Creating images or graphics (including presentation slides) (generated a meme (the difference between an optimistic dog and a pessimistic dog for the speaker's presentation since the presentation was about AI)
•    July 2026

Xingen Lei, PhD
Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Nutrition
Cornell University
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Heather Leidy, PhD
Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
Disclosure(s):
•    Beef Checkoff: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
•    General Mills Bell Institute of Health & Nutrition: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing), Consultant (Ongoing), Speaker/Speaker's Bureau (Ongoing)
•    National Cattlemen’s Beef Association: Speaker/Speaker's Bureau
•    National Pork Board: Advisory Committee/Board Member (Ongoing), Consultant (Ongoing)
•    Novo Nordisk: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
•    Pork Checkoff: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
•    All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.   

Carine Lenders, MD, MS, ScD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Disclosure(s) of AI Use:
•    ChatGPT
•    Editing or improving writing and Other (infographics with presenter input and collaborator review and edits)
•    July 2026

Zhaoping Li, MD, PhD
Professor and Director, UCLA Center for Human Nutrition
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Leah Lipsky, PhD, MHS
Staff Scientist, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Disclosure(s) of AI Use:
•    ChatGPT
•    Editing or improving writing, creating images or graphics (including presentation slides)
•    July 2026

Lindsey Locks, ScD MPH
Assistant Professor, Boston University
Disclosure(s): 
•    Edesia Nutrition: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
•    All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.   
Disclosure(s) of AI Use: 
•    ChatGPT
•    Editing or improving writing, creating images or graphics (including presentation slides)
•    July 2026

Saurabh Mehta, MBBS, ScD
Founding Director and Janet and Gordon Lankton Professor, Cornell Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Kris Mogensen, MS, RD, LDN, CNSC
Team Leader Dietitian Specialist, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Disclosure(s): 
•    American Regent: Advisory Board/Committee Member
•    All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.
 
Jaime Moore, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Disclosure(s):
•    Medtronic: Consultant (Ongoing)
•    All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.   

Naima Moustaid-Moussa, PhD, DFASN, FTOS, FAHA, FNAI
President, American Society for Nutrition
Texas Tech University & Texas Tech Health Sciences Center
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Marian Neuhouser, PhD, RD
Professor, Public Health Sciences Division, Cancer Prevention Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Holly Nicastro, PhD, MPH
Senior Nutrition Scientist, National Institutes of Health
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Mona Luisa Niebuhr, MS
Senior Social Protection Specialist, The World Bank
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Disclosure(s) of AI Use:
•    Microsoft Copilot
•    Creating images or graphics (including presentation slides) (supported infographic and slide creation)
•    July 2026

Diana Obanda, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Cristina Palacios, PhD, FASN
Professor and Chair, Florida International University
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Daniel Raiten, PhD, FASN
Senior Nutrition Scientist, NIH Office of Nutrition Research
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Hollie Raynor, PhD, RD, LDN
Executive Associate Dean of Research and Operations, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Disclosure(s) of AI Use:
•    ChatGPT
•    Creating images or graphics (including presentation slides)
•    July 11-12, 2026

Drew Sayer, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Raz Shaikh, PhD, FASN
Professor and Chair, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Disclosure(s):
•    Metagenics Inc.: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Wiley Companies: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
•    All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.

Kris Sollid, RD - Senior Director, Research & Consumer Insights, International Food Information Council
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Disclosure(s) of AI Use:
•    ChatGPT
•    Editing or improving writing
•    July 2026

Diane Stadler, PhD, RDN, LD
Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Graduate Programs in Human Nutrition, Oregon Health & Science University
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Alison Steiber, PhD, RDN
Chief Mission, Impact and Strategy Officer, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Disclosure(s):
•    Administration for Community Living: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
•    All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.

Judith Storch, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Robert Suskind, MD
Dean Emeritus, California University of Science and Medicine
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Daniel Tomé, PhD
Professor, Agroparistech/Université Paris-Saclay
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Lisa Troy, PhD
Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, School of Public Health and Health Sciences
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Stephanie Waldrop, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor and Director, Pediatric Clinical and Translational Medicine Research Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Disclosure(s) of AI Use:
•    Claude
•    Creating images or graphics (including presentation slides) and Other (completing literature searches/historical informational searches)
•    July 2026

Michael Weintraub, MD
Endocrinologist & Clinical Assistant Professor, NYU Langone Health
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Keith West, DrPH, MPH
George G. Graham Professor of Infant and Child Nutrition, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Elizabeth Widen, PhD, RD
Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
Disclosure(s):
•    Egg Nutrition Center: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
•    National Cattlemen’s Beef Association: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
•    National Pork Board: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
•    All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.

Krista Zanetti, PhD, MPH, RDN
Program Officer, Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes Program, National Institutes of Health
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Yue Zhan 
PhD Candidate, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Staff

Michelle Crispino

American Society for Nutrition
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Disclosures (AI Use): 
•    ChatGPT and Microsoft CoPilot
•    Drafting text and editing/improving writing
•    April-July 2026

Stephanie Dunbar, MPH, RD, RN
American Society for Nutrition
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Gwen Twillman
American Society for Nutrition
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Disclosures (AI Use): 
•    ChatGPT and Perplexity
•    Drafting text, editing and improving writing, and analyzing data
•    June-July 2026