CRN Announces Keynote Speaker for The Workshop—Day-long Science Symposium in Tandem with The Conference, October in California

Washington, D.C., August 18, 2015—The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), the dietary supplement industry’s leading trade association, today announced Howard D. Sesso, Sc.D., M.P.H., associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and associate epidemiologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, will be the keynote speaker at The Workshop: CRN’s Day of Science, taking place Oct. 21 at The Ritz-Carlton, Rancho Mirage, in Palm Springs, California. 

Dr. Sesso, perhaps best known to the dietary supplement industry for his clinical trial research on the multivitamin and chronic disease, will share findings and analysis from his latest research project in this area, delving into secondary analyses from Physicians’ Health Study II. 

The Workshop will also feature sessions on trends in supplement use, nutritional prevention of cognitive decline, assessing initiatives on botanical research, and interpreting the science on the safety of food ingredients.  

The Workshop concludes in the evening with a combined reception for attendees of that event and The Conference.  Registration rates are available for CRN members as well as non-members, and there are three registration options that include The Workshop: 1) just The Workshop; 2) The Workshop and day one of The Conference; 3) The Workshop and The Conference package. The fourth registration option includes only The Conference

Hotel accommodations at The Ritz-Carlton, Rancho Mirage, are available at a special group rate of $309 per night/single or double occupancy, subject to availability, and not including tax and gratuities. Room reservations can be made once conference registration is confirmed.

More information for The Workshop: CRN’s Day of Science and The Conference: CRN’s Annual Symposium for the Dietary Supplement Industry, as well as registration details, are available at:www.crnusa.org/2015events.  For more information contact Gretchen Powers (gpowers@crnusa.org).


Note to Editor: The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), founded in 1973, is a Washington, D.C.-based trade association representing 150+ dietary supplement and functional food manufacturers, ingredient suppliers, and companies providing services to those manufacturers and suppliers. In addition to complying with a host of federal and state regulations governing dietary supplements and food in the areas of manufacturing, marketing, quality control and safety, our manufacturer and supplier members also agree to adhere to additional voluntary guidelines as well as to CRN’s Code of Ethics. Visit www.crnusa.org. Follow us on Twitter @crn_supplements and @wannabewell and on Facebook.