8:00 AM – 8:30 AM Continental Breakfast, Registration & Trainee Poster Viewing
8:30 AM – 8:45 AM Welcome and Introductions
8:45 AM – 10:15 AM
Speaker: Emeran Mayer, PhD; Distinguished Research Professor of Medicine
Director, G. Oppenheimer Ctr for Neurobiology of Stress & Resilience
Founding Director, Goodman Luskin Microbiome Center
UCLA Vatche & Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases, UCLA
Facilitator: Sandy van Calcar
Reading/Viewing Pre-work: The Maternal Microbiome Promotes Placental Development in Mice
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9948959
The Gut and the Microbiome Slides (PDF)
10:15 AM- 10:30 AM Break & Trainee Poster Viewing
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Pillar 1: Improve Food Access and Affordability
Carmen Byker Shanks, PhD RDN, Principal Research Scientist, Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition
Pillars 1-3 Improve Food Access and Affordability, Empower All Consumers to Make and Have Access to Healthy Choices Slides (PDF)
Pillar 2: Integrate Nutrition and Health
Hillary Seligman, MD, MAS; UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations, General Internal Medicine UCSF Health, General Internal Medicine
Pillar 2 Integrate Nutrition and Health Slides (PDF)
Pillar 3: Empower All Consumers to Make and Have Access to Healthy Choices.
Carmen Byker Shanks, PhD RDN, Principal Research Scientist, Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition
Pillars 1-3 Improve Food Access and Affordability, Empower All Consumers to Make and Have Access to Healthy Choices Slides (PDF)
Pillar 4: Support Physical Activity for All.
Yue Liao, MPH, PhD, CPH ; Assistant Professor, Public Health Program, Department of Kinesiology, University of Texas Arlington
Pillar 4 Support Physical Activity for All Slides (PDF)
Facilitator: Barbara Laraia
Reading/Viewing Pre-work: Biden-Harris Administration National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/White-House-National-Strategy-on- Hunger-Nutrition-and-Health-FINAL.pdf
12:00 AM – 1:00 PM Lunch & Networking
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Speaker: Tamara Gardner Periconi, MPH, RDN, Nutritionist, Western Regional Office, Food and Nutrition Service
Food as Medicine in your State Slides (PDF)
Large Group Discussion: NLN Participants
Facilitators: Barbara Laraia and Megan Mueller
2:00 – 2:15 PM ASPHN Updates – Incorporating the Food Sufficiency PM in your State Plans.
Speaker: Sandy Perkins, ASPHN
Reading/Viewing Pre-work:
2:15 PM – 3:45 PM Free Time & Trainee Poster Viewing
3:45 PM – 6:30 PM Western MCH Nutrition Leadership Network Networking Session
(Refreshments provided)
6:30 PM Free evening to explore…
8:30 AM – 4:00 PM Leadership Workshop
Presenter: Aya Caspi, MPH
Based in Northern California, Aya Caspi brings her unique blend of vision, practical clarity, and deep commitment to the transformative power of Nonviolent Communication to settings as varied as schools, parenting, couples counseling, mediation, nonprofit organizations, social change communities and media.
Aya has served as an educational consultant on several preschool series, creating original curricula and advising on show development and scripting. Her client list includes Warner Bros., Discovery Media, 9 Story Media Group, Cartoon Saloon, Field Day Entertainment, the Cartoon Network, and Max “Lu & The Bally Bunch”.
Reading/Viewing Pre-work:
7:30 AM – 8:00 AM Continental Breakfast & Trainee Poster Viewing
8:00 AM – 4:00 PM
8:00-8:30 Welcome
9:30-9:45 BREAK
12:15-1:15 LUNCH
2:45-3:00 BREAK
3:45-4:00 Closing
4:00 PM Conference adjourns