About the Symposium
The AICR Lifestyle & Cancer Symposium – Innovation to Impact co-chaired by Dr. Fang Fang Zhang (Tufts University) and Dr. Justin Brown (Pennington Biomedical Research Center) will feature internationally renowned clinicians, scientists, researchers, and health professionals presenting and discussing the latest evidence and perspectives on issues at the intersection of diet, nutrition, physical activity and cancer risk and survivorship.
This year’s symposium will take place virtually on April 28th, 2022.
AICR has been at the forefront of funding, analyzing and advocating for research into how lifestyle factors such as diet, obesity and physical activity impact cancer risk and survivorship for the past four decades. Over that time, the concept that you can reduce your cancer risk by adopting a healthy lifestyle has gone from an outlandish, almost heretical, suggestion to the backbone of mainstream public health and cancer prevention efforts. However, many questions remain, particularly regarding how we translate the research evidence into individual and population actions that can mitigate the rising tide of cancers caused by the aging of the global population and the emergence of new risk factors that are increasing despite the progress that has been made towards eliminating or reducing others.
Innovation has no intrinsic value unless it can be harnessed for positive impact. This symposium will present recent innovations, spanning the chronic disease spectrum, and consider their implementation and impact on reducing cancer risk and improving survivorship.
The symposium will conclude with a panel discussion, so that the audience can ask questions, gain even greater insights and take advantage of the opportunity to hear discussions that will span the continuum from research to policy and across the inter-related domains of lifestyle.
This symposium is aimed at health professionals (including physicians, nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, social workers and dietitians), researchers and policy advocates alike, with a real focus on how the sometimes remote and abstract world of academic and clinical research relates to everyday decisions and lifestyle changes.
Accreditation
This event has been approved by the Commission on Dietetic Registration for 5 CPEUs.
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AICR LIFESTYLE & CANCER SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM
| 10:00 | WELCOMES AND INTRODUCTIONSNigel Brockton, PhD |
| 10:10 | KEYNOTE SPEAKER IDariush Mozaffarian, MD, DrPH |
| 11:00 | RESEARCH INNOVATION TO POLICY IMPACT – DIET & NUTRITIONElizabeth Feliciano, ScD, SM |
| 11:20 | Sandeep Prabhu, PhD Effect of dietary selenium in acute myeloid leukemia |
| 11:40 | LeAnn Perkins, FNP-BC, DipACLM Cancer Survivorship to Prevention: An interdisciplinary team approach |
| 11:55 | Colleen Spees, PhD, MEd, RDN, LD, FAND Integration of food and nutrition into oncology care: a medically tailored meal plus nutrition counseling intervention among patients with lung cancer |
| 12:10 | Q&A SESSIONAll morning speakers |
| 12:30 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 1:00 | KEYNOTE SPEAKER IIWilliam Kraus, MD |
| 1:50 | RESEARCH INNOVATION TO POLICY IMPACT – PHYSICAL ACTIVITYMichael De Lisio, PhD |
| 2:10 | Kathryn Schmitz, PhD, MPH Addressing symptoms in metastatic breast cancer with technology: the Nurse AMIE platform |
| 2:30 | Alix Sleight, PhD, OTD, MPH, OTR/L Risk-stratified self-management care: a new approach to increasing adherence to health behavior recommendations in cancer survivors |
| 2:45 | Graham Melstrand It’s Time to Move: A historic project to make physical activity assessments, prescriptions and referrals a standard of care in the US healthcare system |
| 3:00 | Panel Discussion Karen Collins MS, RDN, CDN, FAND and all afternoon speakers |
