 Good morning everyone my watch says it's a little after 8 o'clock, so I'd like to go ahead and Get started so we can keep on time So my name is Sharon Donovan and I'm the co-chair of the yogurt and nutrition initiative with Renan Shamir, and I'd like to Well warmly welcome you to the second global summit on the health effects of yogurt And I'm very glad to see you all here on the last day of the meeting And I hope that you're going to really enjoy the program that we've put together for you this morning So just briefly my disclosures And then I thought for just about five minutes I would give you an introduction to Yini if you're not familiar with it and then to also update you on some of our Accomplishments in the last year since we had our first global summit in Boston last April So Yini stands for yogurt in nutrition initiative for a balanced diet, and this is an initiative that was begun with the American Society of Nutrition and the Denone Institute and we're very happy to announce a new partner in Yini the international osteoporosis Foundation And so we we all know that bone health is important across the lifespan, so we're very excited about having this this new partner so the Yini Board which you will see in your handouts has developed a strategic map So I'll just show you our mission is to advance scientific knowledge on the health benefits of yogurt and to disseminate Broadly this information, and we have three major goals to identify and review existing science on the health benefits of yogurt through International through international scientific conferences such as the one today, and we're also in the process of Producing a systematic review, which should really help us to identify The the strength of the evidence, but also the gaps We want to promote scientific research on the health benefits of yogurt and that through not only raising awareness But as we'll show you Yini is beginning To fund research and we're just issuing a call for proposals this that will be due in July We also have posters and scientific sessions, so this is the first year We've included posters and we were able to get a new Abstract category on the EB program So if work in your lab is in the area of yogurt then please consider submitting an abstract to that category next year And lastly to disseminate the knowledge to on the health benefits, and this is to health care professionals policymakers and ultimately the general public So what have we done so as you know last year we had our first global summit The proceedings are being published this month in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and if you're not aware the the full PDFs are available on your memory stick The white pen that you have in front of you if you pull off the cap This is actually a memory stick and PDFs of the full Supplement are available for you We also have developed a website yogurt and nutrition calm Which is has selected scientific reviews. We have expert reviews some were captured last year some are being Captured this morning. There's also I'll show you health fact sheets for health care professionals and patients So the information that we was presented last year in Boston that's now been published in AJCN has been Translated into information sheets that we hope that health care practitioners will be able to use for their benefit and the benefit of their patients So these are some of the infographics So if you go to the yogurt and nutrition website, you can download these as PDFs and So on weight management lactose intolerance health care economics these we were all About presentations from the Boston meeting There's also fact sheets on lactose intolerance both for health care professionals and patients and also nutrient density and snacking So if you are a dietician or physician, and you think these would be helpful in your practice Please go to the website and download them and We're very excited about a new research RFA and this again you can get information on yogurt and nutrition We're looking for proposals that Focused on health benefits of yogurt consumption very broadly These are just some topics, but we're really consider a breath of topics Any approach you would like to take the deadline is the end of July. This is beginning as a $30,000 grants. So again, it's a small grant, but we're hoping that this will serve as a seed grant to generate new research in Yogurt that's going to help us fill some of the gaps And again, we're very excited about the summit today the programs are in front of you I wanted to remind you that at the end where we've added a new Wrinkle this year last year everybody kind of stood up and said well, where's the yogurt? So this year we have yogurt and we're very happy to have Ellie Krieger who's a very well-known dietician in the United States will be Speaking at the end of the session on strategies for the public to include yogurt in their diet And we'll be tasting some of the recipes from her cookbook and her cookbook is available And she will be signing those we say that's a great Mother's Day gift. And so if you're I'm thinking of something, please consider Meeting Ellie. She's really a delightful person and I'm very well known in the US She's on the food TV network and has a number of cookbooks So we're very happy to have her with us so just briefly again that the Itinerary for is in front of you We will be having scientific sessions through about 1230 and then the yogurt tasting session afterwards So without any further Delay we would like to Initiate the first session So I'd like to have Andrew Prentice come up as the moderator to introduce Dr. Fisberg You