Prof. Vijai K S Shukla
Director
International Food Science Centre A/S
Denmark
Biography
Dr. Vijai Shukla (born March 23, 1948) is an Indian-Danish food scientist, researcher and professor in lipidology, and a central figure in the study of essential fatty acids. He is also the President of the International Food Science Center based in Denmark,Fellow of the American Oil Chemists’ Society (AOCS)and Adjunct Professor to the Department of Food Science and Nutrition University of Minnesota. Shukla has authored close to 120 peer-reviewed papers,reviews and book chapters, and 15 books. He was the Associate Editor for the peer-reviewed journal INFORM from 1989–97 and remains Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Oil Chemists Society and of Lipid Technology. In 1996 he received the American Oil Chemists’ Society (AOCS) Herbert Dutton Award for “significant contributions to analytical methodologies†and was given the prestigious Stephen S. Chang Award in 2002 for “decisive accomplishments in research for the improvement or development of products related to lipidsâ€. In 1990 he joined Karlshamn as Research Director, and started his own company in 1991, IFSC, of which he is still President.Shukla’s research includes both the field of physical phenomena and the mechanisms of autoxidation, isolation of lipids, spectral phenomena related to lipids (e.g. pulsed Nuclear magnetic resonance), modern analytical methodology, and involvement of essential fatty acids in health and disease such as multiple sclerosis and Batten Disease where he has made significant scientific contributions
Research Interest
Professor, Dr Vijai K S Shukla is author of nearly 100 original scientific publications, 12 invited review papers, 15 book chapters in the areas of biochemistry, human nutrition,cosmeceuticals, nutraceuticals, enzymology, modern analytical techniques for the separation of lipids and proteins. Editor of six books.
Biography
Ron Fritz has been a consulting statistician in various industries for 20+ years. He is currently a global subject matter expert for PepsiCo, Inc. as Sr. Principal Engineer - Statistician. He has a wide range of experience in the application of statistics in various settings. A recent area of interest is gluten-free oatmeal compliance, where he has authored five articles on the subject. Ron holds a Phd in Industrial Engineering from Clemson University and MS/BS degrees in Systems Management and Engineering Technology from the University of Southern California and National University respectively
Research Interest
His area of interest is gluten-free oatmeal compliance, where he has authored five articles on the subject
Prof. Francine Grodstein
Professor & Director
Harvard Medical School
USA
Biography
She has been the Director of the NHS since 2011. She is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. her research focuses on healthy aging, particularly in women. She has led studies of cognitive function and incontinence in the Nurses Health Studies.
Research Interest
Her research focuses on healthy aging, particularly in women. Her primary research base is the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS), where she leads a study of cognitive function among the oldest participants. This includes several repeated measures of function in 20,000 women aged 70 years and over. In addition, she leads cognitive substudies within three large-scale randomized clinical trials of vitamin supplements and aspirin with a total of 16,000 participants in the cognitive cohort. She also initiated a study of risk factors for incontinence in the Nurses Health Study and Nurses Health Study II. Incontinence is a common problem in older women, with important public health consequences, yet little is known about its epidemiology or prevention.
