Keynote Sessions
Enjoy the following keynote sessions while attending FNCE®
Opening Session
Saturday, October 5; 4 - 6 pm
Speaker: Rishi Manchanda, MD, MPH
CEO | Physician | Public Health Innovator
Dr. Rishi Manchanda is CEO at HealthBegins, a national mission-driven strategy and implementation firm that helps Medicaid-serving managed care plans, health systems, and social sector clients to exceed health care equity and social needs performance requirements and achieve long-term impact for people and communities harmed by societal practices. Dr. Manchanda's areas of expertise include building and scaling value-based care models for historically marginalized populations, embedding and advancing equity in clinics and communities, and designing and leading national and regional policy initiatives to improve population health.
Dr. Manchanda served as the founding director of social medicine for a network of community health centers in south central Los Angeles, as the first lead physician for homeless veterans at the Greater Los Angeles VA, and as the chief medical officer for a multi-billion-dollar employer with a large rural agricultural workforce. In his 2013 book - The Upstream Doctors - and TED Talk, he introduced "Upstreamists", a new model of healthcare professionals and leaders who improve outcomes by addressing the social and structural drivers of health equity - patients' social needs, community-level social determinants of health, and structural determinants of health equity including structural racism.
Based in Los Angeles, Dr. Manchanda serves as a board member and advisor for several national nonprofits, companies, and initiatives that promote health equity, economic opportunity, and participatory democracy.
Member Showcase
Monday, October 7; 10 am - Noon
Ertharin Cousin
Food Systems for the Future, Founder and CEO | Former US Ambassador, United Nations | Former Executive Director, World Food Programme
Ertharin Cousin currently serves as the CEO and Managing Director of Food Systems for the Future, a nutrition impact investment fund; a Distinguished Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs; a Bosch Academy, Robert Weizsäcker Fellow; and a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford University, Center on Food Security and Environment.
From 2012 until 2017, Cousin led the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). As executive director, Cousin guided the 14,000-member WFP team feeding more than 80 million people each year.
In 2009, Cousin was nominated and confirmed as the US Ambassador to the UN Agencies for Food and Agriculture in Rome. Prior to her global hunger work, Cousin helped lead the U.S. domestic fight to end hunger including service as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of America's Second Harvest - now Feeding America.
Closing Session
Tuesday, October 8; Noon- 1:00 pm
Joy Bauer, MS, RDN, CDN
NBC TODAY Show Health & Nutrition Expert | #1 New York Times Bestselling Author | Monthly Columnist for First for Woman and Savory Magazines
Joy Bauer is one of the nation’s leading health authorities. She is the nutrition and healthy lifestyle expert for the TODAY show and the host of NBC's Health + Happiness.
Joy is a #1 New York Times bestselling author with 14 bestsellers to her credit. She served as the official nutritionist for the New York City Ballet for more than a decade, and maintains JoyBauer.com, a popular online destination for cutting-edge health information and thousands of delicious recipes. She also writes a monthly column for First for Women as well as Savory magazines.
In the earlier part of her career, Joy was the Director of Nutrition and Fitness for the Department of Pediatric Cardiology at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City, as well as the clinical dietitian for their neurosurgical team. One of Joy's most rewarding experiences was creating and implementing "Heart Smart Kids," a health program for underserved children living in Harlem. Prior to making the jump to media, she taught Anatomy & Physiology and Sports Nutrition at NYU’s School of Continuing Education, as she worked to build what would soon become the largest private nutrition center in the country.
Passionate about delivering scientifically sound, realistic information to millions of Americans, Joy has received countless awards including the National Media Excellence Award from two of the most esteemed organizations, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the American Society of Nutrition Science. Joy has also been honored with eight Taste Award nominations, a distinction often described as the Oscars of food, fashion and lifestyle media.
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