Career and Professional Development
Clinical and Translational Nutrition
Lynne Wilkens, DrPH (she/her/hers)
Professor
University of Hawaii Cancer Center
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
R. Drew Sayer, PhD (he/him/his)
Assistant Professor
Department of Family and Community Medicine
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Colby Vorland, PhD
Assistant Research Scientist
Indiana University School of Public Health – Bloomington
Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Disclosure(s): American Pistachio Growers: Consultant (Terminated, June 29, 2024)
National Cattlemen's Beef Association: Consultant (Ongoing); Grant/Research Support (Ongoing)
This 60-minute session will present emerging methodological approaches that can help advance clinical decisions and dietary guidance for the field of nutrition. This will include an overview of alternative approaches to the traditional randomized controlled trial, including randomized encouragement trials, SMART, and Zelen designs as well as application of causal inference modeling, including multiverse analysis, using data from large prospective cohort studies. Presenters will discuss strengths and limitations of these approaches and how use of these methodologies can expand the evidence base to fill critical research gaps.