Special webcast “Diet and Health Across the Lifespan” by Dr. Walter Willett

When:  Friday, November 15

Time:  10:15-11:30 PST

Where:  Webcast at UBC in LSC 1002

You are invited to attend a screening of a keynote address that Dr. Walter Willett will be delivering to the Food as Medicine conference being held in Toronto. His keynote will be followed by Q&A, and presentation of the Rundle-Lister Lectureship award to him.

Dr. Walter Willett is Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts and is among the top three most cited persons in all areas of science. He served as Chair of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for 25 years. Dr. Willett has focused much of his work over the last 35 years on the development of methods to study the effects of diet on the occurrence of major diseases. Dr. Willett has published over 1,800 articles, primarily on lifestyle risk factors for heart disease and cancer, and most recently has led the ‘Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT-Lancet Commission on health diets from sustainable food systems’ report.  He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and the recipient of many national and international awards for his research.

 

No need to register! Please come see this important lecture, and bring your colleagues and friends.

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