Agenda
9:00 – 10:00 am
Registration
10:00 – 10:05 am
Welcome
Steve Mister, President & CEO, Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN)
10:05 – 10:15 am
Summit Focus: Medical Food Challenge
Patient Focus, Appropriate Regulations, Science-based Industry Innovation
Moderator: Timothy A. Morck, Ph.D., Founder/President, Spectrum Nutrition LLC
10:15 – 10:45 am
Medical Foods – FDA’s Regulatory Perspectives
Patricia Hansen, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Office of Nutrition & Food Labeling, Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition, Food & Drug Administration
10:45 – 11:15 am
Medical Food History, with a View Forward
Jessica P. O’Connell, Covington Burling LLP
11:15 – 11:55 am
Patient Focus – Advocacy, Market Access, New Nutritional Targets
Scope of Impact on Patients
Laura Wingate, Senior Vice President, Education, Support & Advocacy, Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation
Nutrition and Medical Foods Coalition
Paul Konney, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Head, Global Regulatory Affairs, Metagenics, Inc.
Industry Innovation
Charlotte Berg-Svendsen, Vice President. Strategic Innovation,
and IP Management, BASF Nutrition & Health Division
Gordon Bethwaite, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, GUARDiON Health Sciences, Inc.
11:55 – 12:15pm
Audience Discussion with Panel of Morning Speakers
Moderator: Timothy A. Morck, Ph.D., Founder/President, Spectrum Nutrition LLC
12:15 – 1:15 pm
Lunch
1:15 – 1:50 pm
Panel: Healthcare Nutrition Council (HNC) – Priorities, Strategic Actions and Member Company Perspective on Medical Foods
HNC Overview
Madeline Jurch, Government Affairs Manager, Healthcare Nutrition Council, Panel Chair
Foods for Disease Management vs Food for Healthful Living with Disease
Jena Rostorfer, R.D., Associate Director, Regulatory Affairs, Abbott Nutrition
Disease Related Conditionally Essential Nutrient Therapy
Juan B. Ochoa Gautier, M.D., FACS, FCCM, Chief Medical Officer, Nestlé Health Science North America
Panel Discussion
1:50 – 2:00 pm
Engaging the Nutrition Science Community for Policy Support
American Society for Nutrition’s
Food for Health Initiative
National Academies of Science, Engineering & Medicine, Food and Nutrition Board Workshop on Examining Special Nutrient Requirements in Disease States (March 2018)
Timothy A. Morck, Ph.D., Founder/President, Spectrum Nutrition LLC
2:00 – 2: 30 pm
Options for Changing the Regulatory Paradigm to Benefit Patients
Todd A. Harrison, Partner, Venable, LLP
2:30 – 2:50 pm
General Discussion
Moderator: Timothy A. Morck, Ph.D., Founder/President, Spectrum Nutrition LLC
2:50 – 3:00 pm
Closing Remarks
Duffy MacKay, N.D., Senior Vice President, Scientific & Regulatory Affairs, CRN
3:00 pm