Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta

Distinguished Professor, School of Public Health, University of Alberta Dr. Kim Raine is Distinguished Professor, School of Public Health, University of Alberta. Trained as a dietitian, her PhD is in the social sciences. She has 30 years of experience in qualitative and participatory research in nutrition and health promotion. Most of her collaborative research studying innovative interventions for promoting health is engaged scholarship with government, NGOs and communities. As a creative leader of large population health promotion research projects, she has published over 160 papers and ...

Professor, University of Alberta

Carla Prado is a Professor at the University of Alberta and a member of the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. Her internationally recognized work assesses and disseminates evidence on the importance of body composition, particularly low muscle mass, to predict health outcomes such as cancer survival. This work is changing clinical practice. She is designing targeted nutritional strategies to optimize body composition and improve health in multiple diseases, and in immigrant health. Recent recognitions of her pathbreaking work include Canada’s Top 40 ...

Heather Keller RD PhD FDC FCAHS is the Schlegel Research Chair in Nutrition & Aging at the University of Waterloo and a Fellow of Dietitians of Canada. Research programs cross the continuum of care and are focused on improving the nutritional status and food intake of older adults. Her acute care program of research is focused on improving food quality and nutrition care processes to prevent, detect and treat malnutrition. Research in residential and long term care is focused on improving the nutritional and sensory quality of food, as well as enhancing the mealtime experience for ...

Professor, University of Alberta

Dr. Catherine J Field is an international leader in human nutrition, studying ways that long chain fatty acids (LCFA) benefit the immune system. Her work contributed adding LCFA to infant formula and in improvements in women's diet during pregnancy and when fighting breast cancer. Her leadership experience is vast and wide-ranging, including having been President of the American Society of Nutrition, the largest professional nutrition society in the world. She is passionate about serving and supporting collaboration across disciplines to integrate nutrition into health science and apply this ...