Keynote Speakers
Eating Like the World Depends on It

David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP, FACLM
President, True Health Initiative; CEO, Diet ID, Inc.; Founding Director, Yale University Prevention Research Center
The Real Cost – FDA’s Youth Tobacco Prevention Campaign: What’s Important and What’s Innovative

Kathleen Crosby
Director, Health Communication and Education FDA Center for Tobacco Products
The Great Age Reboot: Applying Cleveland Clinic Employee Wellness Strategies to State and National Health Care Approaches

Michael Roizen, MD
First Chief Wellness Officer, Cleveland Clinic and Author
Catalyzing Communities to Reverse the Trend of Childhood Obesity

Christina Economos, PhD
Professor and New Balance Chair in Childhood Nutrition, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and Medical School at Tufts University; Co-Founder and Director of ChildObesity180
Epigenetics: Change your Genes, Change your Life

Kenneth R. Pelletier, PhD, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine and Director of the Corporate Health Improvement Program (CHIP) at UCSF
Universal Access to Health Promotion: A Sustainable Strategy to Reduce Health Disparities, Improve the Health of an Entire State, and Accelerate the Evolution of Health Promotion

Michael P. O'Donnell, PhD, MBA, MPH
CEO, Art & Science of Health Promotion Institute

Translating Active Living Research to Action in Multiple Sectors

James F. Sallis, PhD
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Family Medicine & Public Health. Division of Behavioral Medicine, University of California; Professorial Fellow, Institute for Health & Aging, Australia Catholic University, Melbourne
Got Quality? Learning What Each of Us Does Best and Making it Happen Everywhere and Every Time

Paul E. Terry, PhD
President and CEO, Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO); Editor in Chief, American Journal of Health Promotion
What is the Right Mix of Awareness, Motivation, Skills and Opportunity in Weight Control?

James Hill, PhD
Anschutz Professor of Health and Wellness Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Life On Purpose: How Living for What Matters Most Changes Everything

Victor J. Strecher, PhD, MPH
Professor and Director for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, University of Michigan School of Public Health; Founder & CEO, JOOL Health
Food Politics: Making it Work for Health Promotion

Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH
Acclaimed Author & Professor of Nutrition & Public Health, New York University
Why Good Things Happen to Good People: A Scientific and Real World Perspective on the Benefits of Helping Others

Stephen Post, PhD
Director, Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics and Professor of Bioethics, Stony Brook University
An American Plate That is Palatable for Human and Planetary Health – Sponsored by Sage Publications

Walter Willett, MD, DrPH
Chair and Frederick J. Stare Professor, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
What’s Next for Health Promotion? What New Approaches Will Produce the Best Outcomes?

David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP
Founding Director, Yale University Prevention Research Center at Griffin Hospital; Director & Founder, Integrative Medicine Center at Griffin Hospital; Founder & President, Turn the Tide Foundation, Inc.; Principal Inventor, Overall Nutritional Quality Index (ONQI); Chief Science Officer, NuVal, LLC; Editor-in-Chief, Childhood Obesity Journal; Senior Medical Advisor; MindStream Academy; President, American College of Lifestyle Medicine
The Impact of Positivity on Health

Barbara L. Fredrickson, PhD
Kenan Distinguished Professor and Director, Social Psychology Doctoral Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill