CEO, Founder - DQPN, Diet Quality Photo Navigation
Director; Co-Founder - Yale University Prevention Research Center
Derby, CT

David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP, FACLM, earned his BA degree from Dartmouth College (1984); his MD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1988); and his MPH from the Yale University School of Public Health (1993). He completed sequential residency training in Internal Medicine, and Preventive Medicine/Public Health.

He is the founding director (1998) of Yale University’s Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, Immediate Past-President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and Founder/President of the True Health Initiative, a non-profit organization established to promote messages about healthy, sustainable diet and lifestyle in the service of adding years to lives and life to years around the globe.

Katz directed the development of the Overall Nutritional Quality Index® used in the NuVal® nutritional guidance system, the world’s most robustly validated nutrient profiling system. He is the Founder (2016) and CEO of his own start-up company, developing a disruptively innovative approach to dietary intake assessment, and diet coaching- known as Diet Quality Photo Navigation (DQPN; DQPN™, LLC). He serves as Chief Science Officer for FareWell (https://farewell.io/), a digital therapeutic platform devoted to the use of diet and lifestyle for the treatment and reversal of chronic disease.

He holds 5 U.S. patents with other patents pending, and invented the research method known as “evidence mapping.” He has published roughly 200 scientific articles and textbook chapters, and 15 books to date, including multiple editions of leading textbooks in both Preventive Medicine, and nutrition. Prominent as a journalist and commentator addressing matters of health and medicine, Dr. Katz has been quoted in most major magazines and newspapers, and has appeared widely on radio and television- and served as a regular on-air medical contributor for Good Morning America/ABC News for over two years. He has delivered addresses at major universities and conferences throughout the United States and countries around the world on five continents.

Jeffrey B. Blumberg, PhD, FASN, FACN, CNS-S

Senior Scientist | Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition
Research Center on Aging Professor | Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Tufts University
Boston, MA

Dr. Jeffrey Blumberg is a Professor in the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. His research is focused on the biochemical basis for the role of antioxidant nutrients and their dietary requirements in promoting health and preventing disease during the aging process via changes in status of oxidative stress, glucoregulation, and inflammation.

He has published more than 400 scientific articles and serves on the editorial boards of several scientific journals. Dr. Blumberg was included in 2015 Thomson Reuters’ List of the World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds (top 1% of cited researchers in his field, 2002-2014). In 2016, he was the recipient of the ASN Mary Swartz Rose Senior Investigator Award for outstanding research on the safety and efficacy of bioactive compounds for human health.

Dr. Blumberg also participates in activities relevant to the incorporation of sound nutrition science into public health policy and has served as a member of the Workshop on Health Promotion and Aging in the office of the U.S. Surgeon General, Sports Medicine Committee of the U.S. Olympic Committee, Consultation on Preparation and Use of Food-Based Dietary Guidelines for the WHO/FAO, Food Advisory Committee of the FDA, and other committees.

Professor
School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy
University of Newcastle
Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia

Professor Wood is a nutritional biochemist who graduated with a BSc (Hons 1 and University Medal) from University of Sydney, then a PhD in Nutrition from University of Newcastle in 2001. Following nine years as a research fellow, she accepted an ongoing academic position and is currently Professor in Biomedical Science and leads the nutrition research team in the Priority Research Centre (PRC) for Healthy Lungs and the Grow Up Well PRC.

Professor Wood is an experienced clinical researcher whose research has focused on providing high quality scientific evidence to inform management guidelines for respiratory disease. She has been investigating how dietary factors modify oxidative stress and inflammation, with a particular interest in fatty acids, fiber, antioxidants and obesity. She has established and manages dedicated clinical facilities at HMRI including a specialized Nutrition Laboratory to conduct clinical nutrition intervention trials and a DEXA machine for body composition analysis.

She has also established and manages specialized laboratory facilities for the analysis of nutritional biomarkers: HPLC (for antioxidant analysis) and GC (for fatty acid analysis).

Professor Wood has published >100 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and her work is highly cited. She has co-edited a book titled ‘Nutrition and Physical Activity in Inflammatory Diseases’. She has also authored several book chapters, a government report and is the inventor on two patents. She has been awarded various local, national and international awards, including a University of Newcastle, Vice Chancellor’s Faculty award for Research Excellence (2012), Hunter Children’s Research Foundation Research Mentor of the Year (2011), Nutrition Society of Australia Research Award (2011), Thoracic Society of Australia and NZ & National Asthma Council Prize for Best Presentation (2010), HMRI Early Career Researcher of the Year Award (2009), NSW Young Tall Poppy Award (2008) and NSW Office for Science and Medical Research Postdoctoral Award for Excellence in Medical Research (2007).

Professor Wood serves as President Elect of the Nutrition Society of Australia, Associate Editor for Respirology and is an Editorial Board member for Nutrients and the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics.

Full Professor in Medical Statistics
Head, Unit of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Public Health
Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Science
University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Professor Gregori earned his BS in Economic Policy at University of Trieste (Italy) working on econometric models in R&D and productivity. Afterwards, he earned his MA in Statistics from Penn State University (U.S.) and a Ph.D. in Applied Statistics in Firenze (Italy), working on risk models for occupational lung cancer.

Professor Gregori started his career as Assistant Professor in Biostatistics at the University of Trieste, Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics, and became Associate Professor in Biostatistics at the University of Torino, Medical School. He is presently Full Professor and Chair of Biostatistics at the Medical School of the University of Padova, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, where he is serving as Director of the Unit of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Public Health.

Professor Gregori is currently working on the development of Machine Learning Techniques for prediction and classification in both nutritional and medical field, with a particular emphasis on personalized medicine and biomarkers. He became Fellow of the Obesity Society (FTOS) and of the American College of Nutrition, after having spent several years of work on non-traditional factors in pediatric overweight and obesity.

Founder
Medicine Lodge Ranch: A Natural Medicine Academy
Santa Fe, NM

Tieraona Low Dog, MD is a physician, author, and educator. She practiced herbal medicine, midwifery, massage therapy, and martial arts (she holds the 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do) before earning her medical degree from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Her unique background set her apart from most conventionally trained physicians. Patients sought her out for her broader way of viewing health and healing.

Dr. Andrew Weil, MD asked her to run the Fellowship training program for physicians at the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, where she trained ~700 clinicians. She was a founding member of the American Board of Integrative Medicine and the Academy for Women’s Health.

Dr. Low Dog is one of the foremost experts in the United States on the safe and appropriate use of botanical remedies and dietary supplements. She has overseen the evaluation panel for supplement/botanical safety at the United States Pharmacopeia, including joint reviews with the Department of Defense, for the past twenty years. A prolific scholar, Dr. Low Dog has published 50 research articles in medical/science journals and written 24 chapters for medical textbooks. She has worked with many companies, helping them to craft safer, innovative, and effective products in the natural products space. She has been honored with many awards from academia, public health, and industry throughout her 40-year career.

She has authored five books, including four with National Geographic; Fortify Your Life, Healthy at Home, Life is Your Best Medicine, and Guide to Medicinal Herbs.