Science News from EPI|Lifestyle 2026

Program Co-Chairs Priya Palta, PhD, MHSc and Elisabeth Lilian Pia Sattler, PhD, RPh, FAHA welcome attendees to the meeting and highlight some of the scientific sessions, lectures, and related events they have planned for the meeting this year.

Program Co-Chairs Priya Palta, PhD, MHSc interviews Dina Katabi, PhD and Tina Thompson, MD, MBA about the keynote session on Artificial Intelligence in Cardiovascular Health Research and Practice.

Sonia Y. Angell, MD, MPH, Vice-Chair of the EPI-Lifestyle Programming Committee, interviews this year's David Kritchevsky Memorial Lecturer Angela Odoms-Young, PhD about her talk, "From Policy to Practice: Systems-Level Strategies to Improve Dietary Behaviors and Reduce Cardiovascular Risk."

Sadiya S. Khan, MD, MSc, FAHA, the developer of the American Heart Association PREVENT™ equations, and John T. Wilkins, MD, MSc, FAHA, Writing Committee Member, talk about how the PREVENT equations informed the recommendations in the 2026 ACC/AHA Multisociety Guideline on the Management of Dyslipidemia.

• Read the dyslipidema guideline in Circulation(link opens in new window)
• Download Clinician & Patient Resources
• Explore PREVENT Calculator

Randi E. Foraker, PhD, MA, FAHA, FAMIA, FACMI interviews the five finalists for this year's Jeremiah and Rose Stamler Research Award for New Investigators: Bahar Bakhshi, Boston University School of Medicine; Frances M. Wang, PhD, MS, Harvard University; Jin Dai, PhD, Tulane University; Mohan Satish, MD, NYP-Weill Cornell; Sophie E. Claudel, MD, Boston Medical Center.

Shreela Sharma, PhD, RDN, LD, Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD, Lisa Goldman Rosas, PhD, MPH, and Lauren Eberly, MD, MPH, talk about recent updates from the Field Based Infrastructure Task Force and discuss the essential elements needed to advance food as medicine research and practice—including community engaged research, behavioral science–driven program design, shared knowledge building, and long term partnership development.

Kevin Volpp, MD, PhD, FAHA interviews Tori Taniguchi, MPH, the winner of the inaugural Health Care by Food™ Most Impactful Food Is Medicine Research Award, which recognizes the most impactful research published in the prior year. Taniguchi discusses her work with the Chickasaw Healthy Eating Environments Research (CHEER) Study, a randomized controlled trial testing DASH diet–aligned food boxes for Chickasaw Nation citizens with uncontrolled hypertension.

Chiadi Ndumele, MD, PhD, FAHA, Chair of the Council on Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health, interviews Sadiya S. Khan, MD, MSc, FAHA about her lecture, "Back to the Future: Honoring William Kannel’s Legacy to Shape the Next Frontier of Cardiovascular Epidemiology." In this interview, she shares insights on the evolution of risk prediction, from Framingham to the new PREVENT equations, and how these tools can guide broader cardiovascular‑kidney‑metabolic syndrome prevention strategies across the lifespan.