Registration available for new CRN Workshop
WASHINGTON On Thursday, May 8th, The Council for Responsible Nutrition will be conducting a one-day symposium entitled The Workshop: CRN’s Day of Science. The workshop will take place at the Ritz Carlton Pentagon City Hotel, just outside of Washington, D.C., and will be divided in three sessions, featuring Tieraona Low Dog, from the University of Arizona, who will be the keynote speaker.
The first session will feature speakers David Perlmutter, of the Perlmutter Health Center, Jim LaValle, from the LaValle Metabolic Institute and the University of Cincinnati’s College of Pharmacy, and Aviad Haramati, from Georgetown University’s School of Medicine. All will be focusing on specifics in their field, but the overall purpose of the session is to explore and discuss the relationship between dietary supplements and chronic disease management.
The second session will be a discussion on the value of other types of scientific research for dietary supplements, as opposed to the reductionist approach. This session will feature the following speakers: Jeffrey Blumberg, from Tufts University’s Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy; Cheryl Ritenbaugh, at the University of Arizona; and Jonathan Berman, with the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine’s Office of Clinical and Regulatory Affairs.
The third and final session will be focused on the processes to use in order to evaluate the identity of raw materials and, according to published reports, the role of industry facilitating method validation. Featured speakers include, Joseph Betz, in the Office of Dietary Supplements’ Dietary Supplements Methods and Reference Materials Program; Edward Kennelly, at Lehman College, the City University of New York’s Department of Biological Sciences; Paula Brown, from the British Columbia Institute of Technology’s Natural Health Product Research Group; Mark Roman, at Tampa Bay Analytical Research; and John Cardellina II, from the ReevesGroup.
Registration for the workshop is on a first-come-first-served basis. The fees for registration are $495 for CRN members and $595 for non-CRN members, and there is a rate of $295 for academic and government representatives. To register online—and review the full list of details—visit www.crnusa.org/TheWorkshop.