Joan Sabate, MD, DrPH Chair, Nutrition School of Public Health Professor, Nutrition School of Public Health Professor, Medicine School of Medicine Member, Epidemiology & Biostats, SPH, Faculty of Graduate Studies

Service 

  Community Service

• Participant in Competencies Development Meeting for the Lifestyle Medicine Competencies for Primary Care Physicians ( 7/2009 )

  Society Memberships (professional)

• American Society for Nutrition ( 7/1993 - Present )

  Committee Membership (LLU)

• Chair, 5ICVN - Chair of the 5th International Congress on Vegetarian Nutrition held March 6-8, 2008 at LLU. Premier scientific congress on the health effects of plant based diets. ( 11/2006 - 3/2008 ) Link...

  Committee Membership (non-LLU)

• Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Advisory Board ( 0/2011 - Present )

• Scientific Advisory Board for Paramount Farms, pistascio research, April 2009. ( 4/2009 - Present )

• Member of the editiorial board for Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism. ( 5/2008 - Present )

• Scientific Advisory Board for the California Walnut Commission ( 1/2002 - Present )

  Presentations -- Lay Audience

• "Nuts to You: Nutrition and Health Effects of Regular Nut Eating" presentation for Health HyperLink, Inc. ( 10/2010 )