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Dr. J. Alfredo Martínez

Chairperson


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Dr. Ascensión Marcos

Vice-Chairperson


Professor in the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Spain. Vicepresident of the European Federation of Nutrition Societies (FENS).

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Dr. Eduardo Atalah-Samur

Member


Chilean Nutrition Society. Medicine School. University of Chile. Santiago de Chile. Chile

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Dr. Manuel Eduardo Baldeón

Member


Traslational Investigation Centre. School of Medecine. Universidad de las Américas. Quito. Ecuador.

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Prof. Heiner Boeing

Member


Vice-President of the German Nutrition Society (DGE). Head of Department of Epidemiology. German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIFE). Potsdam. Germany.

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Dr. Josefina Bressan

Member


Nutritionist and M.Sc. degree at Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), Brasil, Ph.D in Nutrition (University of Navarra, Spain).

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Dr. Benjamin Caballero

Member


Professor of International Health and of Maternal and Child Health (Bloomberg School of Public Health), and Professor of Pediatrics (School of Medicine) at Johns Hopkins University.

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Dr. Cristina Campoy-Folgoso

Member


Department of Paediatrics. Excellence Centre for Paediatric Research EURISTIKOS. University of Granada. Spain

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Dr. U. Ruth Charrondiere

Member


Nutritionist. FAO Rome, Italy. Global INFOODS Coordinator. Chair of IUNS Task Force on INFOODS. Recipient of Nevin Scrimshaw Award in 2015

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Dr. Myung-Sook Choi

Member


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Prof. Veronica Cornejo Espinoza

Member


Director of INTA, University of Chile.

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Dr. Camila Corvalán-Aguilar

Member


Assistant Professor. Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology (INTA). University of Chile.

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Dr. Stefaan de Henauw

Member


FENS Secretary. Department of Public Health. Ghent University. Ghent. Belgium.

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Dr. Mercedes De Onis

Member


Coordinator. Growth Assessment and Surveillance Unit. Department of Nutrition. World Health Organization.

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Dr. Nathalie M. Delzenne

Member


Nutrition and Metabolism Research Group/Louvain drug research institute. Catholic University of Louvain. Brussels. Belgium.

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Dr. José Eduardo Dutra de Oliveira

Member


Medical Doctor graduated at the Medical School, University of São Paulo, Brazil. Post graduated training at Vanderbilt University.

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Dr. Michael Fenech

Member


Foundation President of the Asia-Pacific Nutrigenomics and Nutrigenetics Organisation (APNNO).

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Dr. Lynnette R. Ferguson

Member


Director of Mutagen Testing. Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre. Professor of Nutrition. University of Auckland. New Zealand.

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Dr. Any Ferreira-Heyn de Saguier

Member


Chief of the Nutrition Department of Surgical Service. Clinical Hospital, National University of Asuncion, Paraguay. Nutrologist of ICU, National Institute of Respiratory and Enviroment Diseases.

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Dr. María Nieves García-Casal

Member


President of the Latin-American Nutrition Society (SLAN). Chief of the research team of the Nutrition Section of the Experimental Medicine Centre at the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC).

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Prof. Catherine Geissler

Member


Secretary General of the International Union for Nutritional Sciences (IUNS). United Kingdom.

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Dr. Ángel Gil

Member


President of the Iberomerican Nutrition Foundation (FINUT). Full Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology II. Institute of Nutrition and Food Technology, University of Granada.

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Dr. Paulo Giorelli

Member


Lecturer of Nutrology at Postgraduate Course of Medicine – ABRAN. Degree in Neurology at INDC/UFRJ. Chief of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome Department of the Brasilian Nutrology Association. President of the Brasilian Nutrology Association. Rio de Janeiro

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Dr. Mirjana Gurinovic

Member


Scientific Research Advisor. Centre of Research Excellence in Nutrition and Metabolism. Institute for Medical Research. University of Belgrade. Serbia.

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Dr. Pedro Hallal

Member


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Dr. Teodora Handjieva-Darlenska

Member


Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology. Faculty of Medicine. Medical University. Sofia. Bulgaria.

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Dr. Manuel Hernández-Triana

Member


Specialist, senior researcher, and full professor in biochemistry at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Havana.

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Prof. Helmut Heseker

Member


President of the German Nutrition Society (DGE). Institute of Nutrition, Consumption and Health. University of Paderborn. Germany.

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Dr. Frank Hu

Member


Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology at Harvard.

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Esther Infanger

Member


Project manager. Registered Dietitian SVDE, Master of Nutrition UC. Swiss Society for Nutrition SSN

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Dr. Hisanori Kato

Member


Project Professor. Organization for Interdisciplinary Research Projects. The University of Tokyo.

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Dr. Cecily Kelleher

Member


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Dr. Berthold Koletzko

Member


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Dr. Martin Kohlmeier

Member


Nutrition in Medicine/Nutrition Education for Practicing Physicians. UNC Schools of Medicine and Public Health. Dept. Nutrition.

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Dr. Duo Li

Member


Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Qingdao University. China.

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Dr. Xu Lin

Member


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Dr. Julie Lovegrove

Member


Professor of Human Nutrition. University of Reading. United Kingdom.

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Prof. Ian A. MacDonald

Member


Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Obesity. Professor of Metabolic Physiology. Head of School of Life Sciences. The University of Nottingham. United Kingdom.

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Prof. Mark L. Wahlqvist

Member


Emeritus Professor. Former Professor and Head of Medicine at Prince Henry’s Hospital and Monash Medical Centre. Associate Dean (International Health and Development) and Director of the Asia Pacific Health and Nutrition Centre. Australia.

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Dr. Francisco José Mardones Santander

Member


Professor of Public Health. Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Trustee of the DOHaD society and past-President of the Ibero-American Chapter of the DOHaD Society. Chile.

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Dr. Reynaldo Martorell

Member


Specialist in global health concerns, hunger, malnutrition, and the health implications of changes in diet and lifestyles in developing countries.

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Dr. Purnima Menon

Member


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Dr. Teruo Miyazawa

Member


Project Leader and Professor of Food and Biotechnology Innovation Project, New Industry Creation Hatchery Center (NICHe), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

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Dr. Marja Mutanen

Member


Professor of Nutritional Physiology. Department of Food and Environmental Sciences. University of Helsinki. Finland.

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Prof. Dr. Godwin D. Ndossi

Member


IUNS Council Member.

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Prof. Dr. Lynnette M. Neufeld

Member


IUNS Council Member. Director of Monitoring, Learning and Research at the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). Canada.

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Dr. Shane Norris

Member


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Dr. Veronique Pallet

Member


Bordeaux Institut National Polytechnique.

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Dr. Fátima Pérez De Heredia

Member


Lecturer in Physiology. Liverpool John Moores University. Liverpool. UK.

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Dr. Vishwashwaraiah Prakash

Member


Central Food Technological Research Institute. United Nations University. Programme at CFRI Mysore. India.

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Dr. Michael Pratt

Member


Professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University in Atlanta, USA

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Dr. Andrew M. Prentice

Member


Director of the MRC International Nutrition Group. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).

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Dr. Rita Raman

Member


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Dr. Pingfan Rao

Member


Professor & Director, CAS.SIBS-Zhejiang Gongshang University Joint Center for Food & Nutrition Research, Hangzhou, China. Immediate Past President, International Union of Food Science and Technology.

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Dr. Durval Ribas Filho

Member


Lecturer at the Fundação Faculdade de Medicina São José do Rio Preto. Postgraduate lecturer of Nutrology of the Brasilian Nutrology Association. Nutrology Lecturer at the School of Medicine at Fundação Padre Albino.

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Dr. Juan Ángel Rivera Dommarco

Member


Director. Research Center in Nutrition and Health. National Institute of Public Health. Mexico.

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Dr. Swapan Kumar Roy

Member


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Dr. Harshpal Singh Sachdev

Member


Senior Consultant in Pediatrics and Clinical Epidemiology. Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research. New Delhi.

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Dr. Jose Luis Santos

Member


Department of Nutrition, Diabetes and Metabolism. School of Medicine. The Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile.

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Dr. Malgorzata Schlegel-Zawadzka

Member


Department of Human Nutrition. Institute of Public Health. Collegium Medicum Jagiellonian University. Kraków. Poland.

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Dr. Lluis Serra-Majem

Member


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Dr. Olga María Silverio Amancio

Member


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Dr. Liseti Solano

Member


Nutrition Research Institut. School of Health Sciences. Carabobo University. Valencia. Venezuela.

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Dr. Noel W. Solomons

Member


Centre for Studies of Sensory Impairment, Aging and Metabolism (CeSSIAM). Guatemala.

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Dr. Shawn Somerset

Member


Public Health Discipline Lead, and Deputy Head, School of Allied Health. Australian Catholic University, Brisbane, Australia.

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Dr. Ricardo Uauy

Member


University of Chile & Department of Public Health Nutrition. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. University of London. United Kingdom.

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Dr. Emorn Udomkesmalee

Member


Senior Advisor, Institute of Nutrition. Mahidol University. Thailand. Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. USA.

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Dr. Roxana Valdés-Ramos

Member


Centre for Research and Graduate Studies in Health Sciences. Faculty of Medicine. Autonomous University of Mexico D.F. Mexico.

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Prof. Helio Vannucchi

Member


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Dr. Julia Wärnberg

Member


Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health. University of Navarra. Pamplona. Spain

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Dr. Christine Williams

Member


Pro-Vice Chancellor (Enterprise) at the University of Reading.

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Dr. Xiaoguang Yang

Member


National Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention Xuanwu District. Beijing. China Institute of Nutrition and Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention

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Dr. Nelly Mercedes Zavaleta Pimentel

Member


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MCs Paula Guastavino

Member


Universidad del Salvador. Buenos Aires. Argentina.

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Dr. Linda Adair

Member


Professor. Department of Nutrition. Fellow. Carolina Population Center. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Mgter. Sandra Nora Blasi

Member


MBA in Strategic Management. School of Business. University of Palermo. Italy. Degree in Nutrition. School of Medicine. Buenos Aires University. Argentina.

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Prof. Philip C. Calder

Member


Faculty of Medicine. University of Southampton. United Kingdom.

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Dr. Rafael Figueredo Grijalba

Member


Vicepresidente Sociedad Latinoamericana de Nutrición. SLAN. Paraguay.

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Rita Raman

Member


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Olga María Silverio Amancio

Member


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Myung-Sook Choi

Member


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Dr. Josefina Bressan

Member


Nutritionist and M.Sc. degree at Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), Brasil, Ph.D in Nutrition (University of Navarra, Spain).

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Dr. Horacio Federico González

Member


Doctor of medicine. Director of the master in human nutrition, Faculty of medical sciences, UNLa silver. Argentina.

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Dr. Susana Socolovsky

Member


President of the Argentine Association of Food Technologists (AATA). Argentina.

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Prof. D. Mauro Serafini

Member


Highly Cited Researchers in Agriculture (Source: Thomson Reuters). Head of Functional Food and Metabolic Stress Prevention Laboratory. Center for Food and Nutrition, CREA, Rome, Italy. Invited Professor of Human Nutrition. Faculty of Food Technology.

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