'Nutrition Agenda 2008' is focus of Tufts Friedman School Symposium

Eileen T. Kennedy DSc, Dean of Tufts University's Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy announced the 3rd Annual Friedman School Symposium, a conference for nutrition professionals that will examine critical issues facing industry, policy-makers, academics and thought leaders in the coming year.

The conference will be in Boston, September 24th to 26th, 2008.

Fifteen experts will present on four main topic groups:

• Nutrient Profiling, Scoring and Labeling: Does it Make a Difference?
• What's Next in Dietary Guidance?
• Threats and Challenges to Nutrition in an Era of Climate Change.
• "Hot Topics" including Vitamin B & Cognition, Artificial Sweeteners and Children, Vitamin D and Cancer, Effects of Folate on Cancer Risk, and Probiotics: "Good Bugs? Bad Bugs?"

Former US Secretary of Agriculture, Dan Glickman will be this year's keynote speaker. Glickman served as Secretary of Agriculture from 1995 until 2001. He also has served as Director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Speakers from both the US and Europe include:

Cindy Davis, PhD
Program Director
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
"Update on Cancer & Vitamin D. New Surprises? What's Around the Corner?"

Adam Drewnowski, PhD
Professor, Epidemiology
Adjunct Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Washington
Director, Nutritional Sciences Program, University of Washington
"Labeling: A U.S. Perspective"

Adrian Dubock, PhD
Agricultural Consultancy for Development GmbH, Switzerland
"Biofortification, GM Crops: Challenges and Opportunities"

Patricia Hibberd, MD, PhD
Director, Center for Global Health Research, Tufts University
Professor, Departments of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine
"Probiotics: Good Bugs? Bad Bugs?"

Janet King, PhD
Professor of Nutrition and Internal Medicine, UC Davis
Professor of Nutrition, UC Berkeley
Scientist at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute
"Wish List for Dietary Guidelines 2010"

Ronald Kleinman, MD
Charles Wilder Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School
Physician in Chief of the Massachusetts General Hospital for Children
Chair of the Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital for Children
"Artificial Sweeteners & Children"