Disclosure Policy

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. 

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.

Disclosure information for the following speakers will be available in late October.

Speakers

Sara Bleich, PhD, Vice Provost for Special Projects, Harvard University; Director of Social Sciences and Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor, Harvard Radcliffe Institute; and Professor of Public Health, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health  

Rachel Fisher, MPH, RDN, Acting Executive Director, President's Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, HHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Carolyn Gunther, PhD, RDN, ASN Community and Public Health Nutrition Research Interest Section Chair, Martha S. Pitzer Center for Women, Children, and Youth Associate Professor, Department of Nursing, The Ohio State University; Director of the Office of Community Outreach and Engagement

Craig Gundersen, PhD, Snee Family Endowed Chair, Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty (BCHP), Professor, Department of Economics, Baylor University Hankamer School of Business

Caree Jackson Cotwright, PhD, RDN, Director of Nutrition Security and Heath Equity, USDA FNS

Amanda MacFarlane, PhD, ASN Committee on Advocacy and Science Policy Chair, Founding Director of the Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition Evidence Center at Texas A&M University

Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD, Director, Penn Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics (CHIBE), Mark V. Pauly Presidential Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Medical Ethics and Health Policy, and Health Care Management, Perelman School of Medicine and the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Scientific Lead, AHA Food is Medicine Initiative