Wendy Bazilian, DrPH, MA, RDN is a writer, educator, food enthusiast, award-winning journalist, and host of the 1,000 Waking Minutes podcast. She graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. from Tufts University, received her M.A. from UC, San Diego, and completed her Doctorate in Public Health and Nutrition at Loma Linda University summa cum laude, where she was awarded the prestigious Chancellor’s Award, the top university honor. She is a registered dietitian nutritionist and ACSM-Certified Exercise Physiologist. She is author of Eat Clean, Stay Lean series (Rodale), The SuperFoodsRx Diet (Rodale), and contributor to James Beard- and IACP-nominated Golden Door Cooks at Home, and New York Times-bestseller SuperFoodsRx. Wendy maintains a private practice with individuals from CEOs, artists, and actors, to professional athletes, parents and children seeking to improve their nutrition and health. Wendy is an expert consultant to the spa industry, to food and commodity groups, and to the healthcare industry. Wendy is on the Board of Directors for the California Academy Foundation, and is an active advocate for students and others pursuing scholarships, fellowships, research and educational grants, internships, and mentoring. She was Nutrition Entrepreneur of the Year 2022 and was awarded the 2024 Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ Distinguished Lecture Award “in recognition of [her] exemplary career and remarkable contributions to the nutrition and dietetics profession.” A frequent nutrition and wellness presenter at scientific, medical, corporate, culinary and public conferences and festivals, her expertise and writing are featured in various national print and digital media. For 15 years, she has been a frequent guest and nutrition expert on Live with Kelly and Mark.

Carolina is a Nutritionist Dietitian with extensive experience in Functional Ingredients as well as Fats and Oils in Human Nutrition, Carolina Chica has led Research and Development Projects focused on Functional Food and Nutritional Supplements based on chia seed ingredients, studying their effects on Human Health, and Consumer Safety.

As the head of Benexia’s Regulatory Affairs Department, Carolina oversees regulatory strategies for new products, collaborates with worldwide regulatory organisms, supports scientific development initiatives, and prepares regulatory presentations and scientific-technical dossiers for product registrations. She ensures compliance with all standards throughout a product’s life cycle.

Dr. Joan Clària is a Senior Consultant at the Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Service of the Hospital Clínic of Barcelona and Professor at the Department of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Barcelona. Dr. Clària is a clinical biochemist by training and performed post-doctoral studies as Fulbright scholar at the Brigham and Women´s Hospital (Boston, MA) (1993-1996) and has been appointed as visiting professor at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC) (2001), The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, ME) (2007) and Harvard Institutes of Medicine (Boston, MA) (2010-2011). Dr. Clària is group leader of the Inflammation and Liver Disease group at the IDIBAPS Research Center and has a long-standing expertise in the study of lipid mediators of resolution of inflammation. Dr. Clària has authored over 187 publications, including high-impact journals such as PNAS, Science Translational Medicine, Cell Metabolism, Gastroenterology and Journal of Hepatology.

Dr. Barceló-Coblijn (1975) is currently a Full Researcher at the Health Research Institute of the Balearic Islands (IdISBa, IIS) and the PI of the research group “Lipids in Human Pathology”, the multidisciplinary research team she founded in 2013. Since 2024, she is the Coordinator of the new Molecular Imaging Platform at the IdISBa.

Dr. Barceló has been studying the role of membrane lipids for over 25 years. She obtained her Degree in Chemistry at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB, Spain, 1998) and her PhD in Biology at the University of Szeged (Hungary, 2003). She first carried a postdoctoral stage with Dr. Eric Murphy at the University of North Dakota (USA, 2004-6) and then went back for a second postdoctoral position at the UIB (2006-12). In 2007, she received the “American Oil Chemistry Society Young Scientist” award for her contributions to the n-3 fatty acid field.

Dr. Barceló organized the 63rd edition of the International Conference of the Bioscience of Lipids. Recently (spring 2024), she became member of the Executive Editorial Board of Progress in Lipid Research, the most prestigious journal in the lipid field.