SPEAKERS:

Dr. Adam Drewnowski, Ph.D., is the Director of the Center for Public Health Nutrition and Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at the University of Washington. He received his degrees from Balliol College, Oxford, and the Rockefeller University in New York. His research addresses the impact of taste, cost, and convenience on food preferences and eating habits and the current disparities in health status. Dr. Drewnowski is the Director of the UW Center for Obesity Research funded under the NIH Roadmap Initiative. The Center addresses environmental, economic and policy issues related to obesity prevention at the local and state level. Dr. Drewnowski has also developed a nutrient profiling method to classify foods and beverages by their nutrient content that has implications for the regulation of nutrition and health claims. He is the author of over 100 research papers and numerous reviews and book chapters and a frequent presence at national and international meetings.

Robyn Flipse is a Registered Dietitian in private practice specializing in food, nutrition and health communications. Her professional career includes more than 30 years of dietetics counseling and teaching in addition to writing three books and numerous articles for consumer publications. She is recognized for her ability to evaluate the science behind the latest nutrition news and analyze how changing food and diet trends will impact nutrient intake and health status. Her consulting services to the food and pharmaceutical industries have included Coca-Cola North America, McNeil Nutritionals, Bush Brothers & Company, Masterfoods, USA and Bayer Company. She has also served on the professional staffs at The Estee Corporation, Raritan Bay Health Services Corporation, New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry, and Jersey Shore University Medical Center Hospital.