Performance Nutrition Series — Inside the New NATA Position Statement: Dietary Supplements for Athlete Safety and Performance

This session provides a practical overview of the highlights of the new National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) position paper, released in Aug. 2026.

Katie Knappenberger, MS, RD, ATC, is the program director of performance nutrition at Northwestern Medicine and Northwestern University Athletics. She served as the American Sports and Performance Dietitians Association's liaison to NATA and was the lead author of NATA's position statement on evaluating dietary supplements for athlete safety and performance. 

Dana Angelo White, MS, RD, ATC, is the sports dietitian and assistant clinical faculty in the Department of Athletic Training and Sports Medicine at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. She is a member of the NATA-SCAN Alliance Committee and conducts workshops and cooking demonstrations for fitness organizations, corporate settings and schools. 

Floris Wardenaar, PhD, Sports Dietitian VSN (Netherlands), is an associate professor in nutrition at the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University and the current president of Professionals in Nutrition for Exercise and Sport.