Program

ICDAM is pleased to announce the program for its international conference on April 27 – 30, 2025 in Toronto, Canada

*Program may be subject to change

All times are EDT

Sunday, April 27: Pre-conference workshops

9.00am – 12.00pm

9.00am – 12.00pm

9.30am – 12.30pm

9.30am – 12.30pm

Workshop 1 (Full  day)

Challenges and strategies of maintaining national food databases to enhance precision

Workshop 2 (Full day)

Novel subjective and objective methods to monitor food intake

Workshop 4 (Half day)

Theory and application of intake-balance assessments using criterion and surrogate measures

1.30pm – 4.30pm

1.30pm – 4.30pm

1.30pm – 4.30pm

1.30pm – 4.30pm

Workshop 1 (Full  day)

Continued

Workshop 2 (Full day)

Continued

Workshop 5 (Half day)

Developing a comprehensive food system profile

5.00pm – 6.30pm

Welcome Reception

Monday, April 28

9.00am – 9.15am

Welcome

9.15am – 10.15am

Keynote: Dr. Marian Neuhouser, Fred Hutch Cancer Center, USA

Evolution in and key directions for advancing dietary assessment methods

Chair: Dr. Sharon Kirkpatrick

10.15am – 10.45am

Refreshment break and networking

10.45am – 12.15pm

Symposium 1

Sharing dietary data as a global public good: challenges and opportunities

Symposium 2

Towards precision 24-hour movement behaviour recommendations – revolutionizing guidelines

Symposium 3

INTAKE24 for all: a multi-cultural tool for dietary assessment 

Chair: Agnieszka Balcerzak

Chair: Dr. Nicholas Kuzik

Chair: Dr. Tracy McCaffrey

12.15pm – 1.15pm

First Annual General Meeting, International Society for Diet and Activity Methods
(open to all, lunch provided) 

Chair: Dr. Pedro Saint-Maurice

1.15pm – 2.45pm

Symposium 4

Dietary intake assessment according to the NOVA Food Classification System: tools and technological innovation

Symposium 5

When 24-hour dietary recalls are your assessment method – strategies, contextual considerations, and advanced modeling techniques
(organized by Kevin Dodd)

Symposium 6

Advancing wearable sensor validation: Frameworks, measurement theory, and statistical approaches for standardizing physical behavior assessment

Chair: Dr. Maria Laura Louzada

Chair: Dr. Sharon Kirkpatrick

Chair: Dr. Sarah Keadle

2.45pm – 4.15pm

Poster session (refreshments provided)

4.15pm – 5.15pm

Oral Session 1

Advancing 24-hour dietary recall methodology

Oral Session 2

Database enhancements and predictive analytics

Oral Session 3

Assessing physical activity and play

Chair: Dr. Megan McCrory

Chair: Dr. Marga Ocké

Chair: Dr. Sarah Keadle

5.30pm – 7.30pm

Early Career Researcher Event

Tuesday, April 29

8.30am – 9.30am

Keynote: Dr. Aiden Doherty, University of Oxford, UK

Insights from wearable sensing at scale in large-scale international biobanks

Chair: Dr. Pedro Saint-Maurice

9.30am – 9.45am

Transition break

9.45am – 11.00am

Oral Session 4

Advances in dietary assessment methods 

Oral Session 5

Biomarkers and omics

Oral Session 6

Usual intake modeling and estimation

Oral Session 7

Integrating diet quality and environmental sustainability 

Chair: Dr. Keren Papier

Chair: Dr. Edith Feskens

Chair: Dr. Sharon Kirkpatrick

Chair: Dr. Sandra Crispim

11.00am – 11.30am

Refreshment break and networking

11.30am – 1.00pm

Symposium  7

Lessons learned from introducing self-administered dietary assessment in national food consumption surveys

Symposium 8

Applications of metabolomics in diet assessment and analysis

Symposium 9

Lessons learned from developing tools with children and youth to measure food choices, eating behaviors and food literacy

Symposium 10

Integrating global positioning systems and accelerometor data in health behavior research studies

Chair: Caroline Van Rossum

Chair: Dr. Marji McCullough

Chair: Dr. Claire Tugault-Lafleur

Chair: Dr. Erika Rees-Punia

1.00pm – 2.00pm

Lunch (provided)

2.00pm – 3.00pm

Keynote: Dr. Juan Rivera, National Institute of Public Health, Mexico

Collecting and applying dietary intake data in an upper-middle income context

Chair: Pending

3.00pm – 4.30pm

Poster session (refreshments provided)

4.30pm – 6.00pm

Symposium 11

Dietary assessment and applications in the Nutrition for Precision Health study

Symposium 12

Measurement of food insecurity in high-income country contexts: cross-country differences, debates, and avenues for future exploration 

Symposium 13

Diet and physical activity assessment in older adults

Chair: Dr. Megan McCrory

Chair: Dr. Rachel Loopstra

Chair: Dr. Tina Hsueh-Ting Chiu

7.00pm – 10.00pm

Conference Dinner (Chefs Hall)

Wednesday, April 30

8.30am – 9.30am

Keynote: Dr. Melody Ding, University of Sydney, Australia

Physical activity measurement and equity: What are the links?

Chair: Dr. Tracy McCaffrey

9.30am – 9.45am

Transition break

9.45am – 10.45am

Oral Session 8

Diet quality, food costs, and food insecurity

Oral Session 9

Harmonization, reporting, and protocols

Oral Session 10

Activity, fitness, and health

Chair: Dr. Benoît Lamarche

Chair: Dr. Pedro Saint-Maurice

Chair: Dr. Erika Rees-Punia

10.45am – 11.15am

Refreshment break and networking

11.15am – 12.15pm

Oral Session 11

Dietary pattern indices and chrononutrition

Oral Session 12

Ultra processed food consumption 

Oral Session 13

Data sciences and modeling to advance assessment

Chair: Dr. Rebecca Leech

Chair: Dr. Carolina Batis

Chair: Dr. Marji McCullough

12.15pm – 1.00pm

ICDAM 2025 Closing

Renew Membership

Book Accommodation

Conference Registration