Thursday 19 July 2012

09.00 – 09.40    Nutrition Society Silver Medal Lecture

Chairperson: Professor Sean Strain

09.40 – 10.20    Boyd Orr Lecture (Plenary Lecture IV) Professor Mike Clarke 
                         (Queen’s University Belfast, UK) 
                          Systematic reviews in nutrition
Chairperson: Dr Ann Prentice

10.20 – 10.50    Refreshments

Original Communication Session 4

10.50 – 12.20     Original Communications (Orals)

12.20 – 13.00     Lunch

13.00 – 13.40    Plenary Lecture (V) Professor John C. Mathers (University of 
                          Newcastle, UK)
                          Nutrition and ageing – knowledge, gaps and research priorities
Chairpersons: Dr Gail Goldberg and Dr Agneta Yngve
Symposium (4): Diet and ageing

13.40 – 14.10    Dr Catherine Feart (Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux, France) 
                          Mediterranean diet and cognitive decline

14.10 – 14.40    Dr Jacqueline Vernarelli (Penn State University, USA)
                          Impact of genetic risk disclosure for Alzheimer’s disease on lifestyle 
                          behaviours

14.40 – 15.00    Refreshments

15.00 – 15.30    Dr Giuseppe Sergi (University of Padua, Italy) 
                          Weight loss and Alzheimer’s disease – which comes first?

15.30 – 16.00    Professor Mary Ann Johnson (The University of Georgia, USA) 
                          Strategies to improve diet in older adults

16.00            Close of Meeting