Heather Engelman is a Registered Dietitian with 18 years experience in the dietetics field. She is the Manager of Nutrition Services at Apostle Group, Inc. where she provides nutrition consultation and diabetes prevention classes. Heather previously worked as the Executive Director of the Oklahoma Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and as a clinical dietitian for a rural hospital in North Central Oklahoma. In 2015 she was awarded the Oklahoma Outstanding Dietitian of the Year for her commitment to the profession.

Heather is a graduate of Oklahoma State University and earned her graduate degree from Iowa State University.

Dr. Shelley Roberts (PhD) is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian and Senior Research Fellow working in a conjoint position with Griffith University and Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service in Queensland, Australia. Her research focuses on improving nutrition care from the hospital to home, specifically, the prevention, identification and management of malnutrition, with special interests in healthcare technology, patient participation / patient engagement in care, and knowledge translation.

Della Dunbar is a Registered Dietitian with over thirty (30) years leadership experience in the healthcare foodservice industry. She has a Bachelor of Science in Dietetics from Loma Linda University and a Master of Science in Institutional Management from Kansas State University. During her career, Della has been the Food Service Director at several major healthcare facilities where she developed expertise in identifying ways of reducing costs and improving efficiency in the food service department. She has ten (10) years' experience managing a Cook-Chill operation for patient meal service. In addition, she was the project manager responsible for the implementation of food and nutrition software system in a 23-hospital system.

Dr. Ann Gaba has been a faculty member and dietetic internship director at the City University of New York for the past sixteen years. She earned her doctorate in nutrition education from Teachers Collage, Columbia University. Her research work stems from this background, and a strong interest in teaching, learning, and communication. Dr. Gaba has published research on evaluation of unique nutrition education strategies, and application of informatics methods to evaluate workforce needs for nutrition professionals. Her most recent work is utilizing an informatics approach to examine health communications in legacy media across multiple media formats.

Rebekah Crowder likes to say she is an aspiring disruptor and servant leader in progress. Rebekah has been a dietitian for 22 years, in management for 15 years and Ambulatory Clinical Nutrition Manager at MD Anderson. She did her undergrad at Louisiana State University and graduate work at Louisiana Tech University, and currently working on her PhD in Public Health. As a patient and employee at MD Anderson she can say MD Anderson is the best for both employees and patients in oncology care!

Gay Wilson is the food data curator for Wolfram Research. She is a graduate of the University of Tennessee, with a master's degree in family and consumer sciences. She previously worked as a clinical dietitian with CVS Health. Her role at Wolfram Research, the leader in technical computing, allows her to merge, explore and share her favorite topics of food, nutrition and computational data science.

Melissa Altman-Traub is a college professor who also has a plant-based food blog. She loves helping others learn how to cook healthy plant-based recipes.

She is involved with student success projects at her college and has held recent leadership positions with the Cultures of Gender and Age Member Interest Group and Nutrition Educators of Health Professionals Dietetic Practice Group. Melissa holds a B.S. in Nutrition from Pennsylvania State University, completed a dietetic internship at the University of Cincinnati Hospital and earned an M.S. in Health Education at Arcadia University. She enjoys cruises, reading, and volunteering at a cat shelter.