Appendix B

Biographical Sketches of Speakers and Moderators

SPEAKERS

Steven Clinton, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology at The Ohio State University. He is the Program Leader for the Molecular Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention Program of the Comprehensive Cancer Center and serves the James Cancer Hospital as Director of Prostate and Genitourinary Oncology. Dr. Clinton is a faculty member of the campus-wide Ohio State University Nutrition Graduate Program (OSUN) and is Co-director of the Center for Advanced Functional Foods Research and Entrepreneurship. His research examines fundamental mechanisms underlying the development of cancer and studies novel prevention and therapeutic strategies in human clinical trials. His cancer research interests within nutritional sciences include the roles of energy intake, bioactive lipids, vitamin D, carotenoids, and other phytochemicals.

Suzanne Dixon, M.P.H., M.S., RDN, is an epidemiologist and Registered Dietitian, and an author, speaker, and internationally recognized expert in nutrition, chronic disease prevention and management, and health and wellness. She is best known as the creator of the award-winning website CancerNutritionInfo.com (sold in 2005), which was acclaimed by The New York Times and named one of Time Magazine’s 50 Coolest Websites of 2005. She has numerous scholarly and popular literature publications and has received awards from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics for Innovative Nutrition Education Programs for the Public and Distinguished Practice in Oncology Nutrition. Ms. Dixon received her training in epi-

demiology and nutrition at the University of Michigan, School of Public Health, at Ann Arbor, and currently runs her own consulting business in Portland, Oregon.

Colleen Doyle, M.S., RD, is Director of Nutrition and Physical Activity for the American Cancer Society. She is a registered dietitian who has worked in the health promotion field for more than 20 years. In her role as director, she has been instrumental in developing strategies to increase awareness of the importance of diet and exercise for chronic disease prevention and management, and to create changes in schools, worksites, and communities that can help improve healthy lifestyles. Colleen has extensive media and public speaking experience. She has appeared on national broadcasts, including CNN, Headline News, Discovery Health, and the Do It Yourself Network, as well as numerous local news and cable television shows. She is frequently quoted in nationwide publications including USA Today, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times and is a frequent presenter at both scientific and consumer meetings, and has authored numerous scientific and consumer articles on nutrition and physical activity.

Diana Dyer, M.S., RD, is a registered dietitian in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and a two-time breast cancer survivor. She is also a survivor of neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer. After a 20-year career working in the specialty area of critical care nutrition, Ms. Dyer combined her personal experience and professional expertise to focus her efforts on increasing awareness of the benefits of proactively including nutrition as a component of true comprehensive cancer care. Ms. Dyer authored the book A Dietitian’s Cancer Story, with proceeds contributed to an endowment she established at the American Institute of Cancer Research (AICR) in Washington, DC, that funds research focused on nutrition and cancer survivorship. She has served as a consultant to the University of Michigan’s Integrative Medicine Research Center, AICR, and is on the Professional Advisory Board for the Wellness Community of Southeast Michigan. Ms. Dyer has been a board member of the Oncology Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and was the founding chair of their Survivorship Subunit.

Barbara Grant, M.S., RDN, CSO, FAND, is the outpatient oncology dietitian at the Saint Alphonsus Cancer Care Center in Boise and Caldwell, Idaho. Ms. Grant has more than 30 years of experience in cancer nutrition. At Saint Alphonsus she provides individualized nutritional counseling and educational classes for individuals diagnosed with cancer throughout the continuum of care. Ms. Grant is a founding member and past chair of the Oncology Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She is a contributing editor to the Clinical Guide to

Oncology Nutrition and co-author of Management of Nutrition Impact Symptoms in Cancer and Educational Handouts, among her many patient and professional publications.

Liz Isenring, Ph.D., is Professor and Head of Program in the Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine at Bond University, Australia. She is internationally recognized in the areas of oncology nutrition, nutrition in older adults, nutrition screening, and assessment. She supervises higher-degree by research (HDR) students in a broad research program that includes oncology nutrition, nutrition for older adults, managing malnutrition, and developing evidence-based nutrition guidelines for improving the care of patients. Her students have won numerous research awards. Previously, she led the development and contributed to several sets of Australian and international evidence-based guidelines leading to improved nutrition care. She is Nutrition Section Editor for Current Oncology and Associate Editor for Nutrition and Dietetics.

Jim Lee, M.S., is Vice President and Director, Systems Research and Initiatives Group (SRI), Altarum Institute. Mr. Lee has been with Altarum Institute for more than 20 years. Before his current position, he served as Director of Altarum’s Medical Care Systems Group, where he led public health informatics and health quality research programs. Mr. Lee’s most recent work focuses on health technology assessments drawing on administrative, financial accounting, and clinical data to support clinical trials, practice guideline development, and program evaluations. His recent studies include evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of alternative diagnostics in lung, breast, and cervical cancer; rapid identification and intervention in severe sepsis; and HIV viral load surveillance protocols.

Rhone Levin, M.Ed., RD, CSO, LD, has been a Registered Dietitian for 24 years and has specialized in oncology nutrition. She is board certified in oncology nutrition. Ms. Levin is an oncology dietitian at the Dell Children’s Medical Center. Previously she was at the Mountain States Tumor Institute for St. Luke’s Health System. She is currently part of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ Evidence Analysis Library oncology revision of evidence-based nutrition research work group.

Joan McClure, M.S., is Senior Vice President of Clinical Information and Publications at the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN). Ms. McClure is responsible for the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology, associated guidelines for patients in English and Spanish, the NCCN Drugs & Biologics Compendium, and The Journal of the NCCN. Ms. McClure also serves as an Associate Editor for JNCNN. Updated

annually, the clinical practice guidelines are recognized as the standard for clinical policy in the United States and have served as a model for guidelines programs elsewhere in the world. Ms. McClure previously directed investigator and patient recruitment efforts in oncology for a multinational contract research organization where she also managed the technical and scientific effort to identify and develop standards for medical and toxicology data for submission to regulatory authorities in the United States, Europe, and Japan.

Mary Platek, Ph.D., M.S., RD, is Research Assistant Professor at Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Dr. Platek is a nutritionist and clinical epidemiologist with expertise in nutrition interventions for chronic disease management. Her research interests include cancer-related malnutrition and cachexia. She had clinical experience in diverse patient and community settings as well as university teaching. She was responsible for establishing and directing an accredited dietetic internship program for the State University of New York and received the Outstanding Dietetic Educator award from the New York State Dietetic Association. She completed a National Institutes of Health fellowship in the epidemiologic and basic science of cancer prevention at Roswell Park Cancer Institute where she actively examines nutritional status and intervention with outcomes of treatment in various cancer populations.

Cheryl Rock, Ph.D., RD, is Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, and the Cancer Prevention and Control Program, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. Dr. Rock’s research efforts are focused on the role of nutritional and dietary factors in the development and progression of cancer, particularly breast cancer, and healthy weight management in adults. Her research efforts address diet composition and weight management, and how diet, adiposity, and physical activity affect biomarkers and the risk and progression of cancer and other chronic diseases. Dr. Rock has served on numerous National Institutes of Health and U.S. Department of Agriculture review panels and committees, and she has served on editorial boards for several peer-reviewed journals. To date, she is the author of more than 240 scientific papers and book chapters. Dr. Rock completed undergraduate training in nutrition and dietetics at Michigan State University, achieved a Master of Medical Science degree in clinical nutrition at Emory University, and was awarded a doctoral degree in nutritional sciences from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Brenna Haviland Shebel, M.S., is Director of Health Care Cost and Delivery at the National Business Group on Health. Her areas of focus are consumer-directed health care, consumerism, employee communications

and engagement, and cancer. She coordinates the operations of the Institute on Health Care Costs and Solutions. In addition, she served as project manager for the Employer’s Guide to Cancer Treatment and Prevention, a major, multiyear initiative to help employers address a growing health care challenge—cancer in the workplace. Prior to joining the Business Group, Ms. Shebel worked for Healthy Maine Partnerships in promoting physical activity, nutrition, and tobacco-resistance activities in schools, communities, and workplaces in southern Maine where she led efforts to establish tobacco-free communities, created youth advocacy programs in three school districts, and assisted with workplace wellness initiatives. She is a Certified Health Education Specialist.

MODERATORS

Wendy Johnson-Askew, Ph.D., M.S., is Vice President of Corporate Affairs with Nestlé Infant Nutrition, North America. In this role she leads the Corporate Affairs Function, which includes Medical Advocacy and Public Policy, Nutrition, Health and Wellness and Corporate Communications. Dr. Johnson-Askew is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Food Forum and a member of the International Food Information Council Board of Directors. She is an active member of the American Public Health Association where she is a Past Chair of the Food and Nutrition Section and a member of the Inter-Sectional Council Steering Committee. Prior to joining Nestlé, Dr. Johnson-Askew was employed by the National Institutes of Health, Division of Nutrition Research Coordination, as a public health nutrition and health policy adviser. While there she was actively involved in the development and follow-up actions to the Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity and the Dietary Guidelines process. She developed scientific symposia on communicating dietary information and determinants of eating behavior that informed the granting process by leading to the development of requests for proposals. Dr. Johnson-Askew’s research interests include determinants of eating behavior, racial and ethnic health disparities, and obesity.

Marian L. Neuhouser, Ph.D., RD, is Full Member in the Cancer Prevention Program, Division of Public Health Sciences, at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. She is also Core Faculty in Nutritional Sciences and Affiliate Professor of Epidemiology, both in the School of Public Health, University of Washington. Dr. Neuhouser is a nutritional epidemiologist whose primary research focus is nutrition and energy balance and their relationship to cancer prevention and cancer survivorship. She has broad experience and leadership in large clinical

trials, including the Women’s Health Initiative and the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial, small-scale controlled dietary interventions, and large observational cohorts. In addition, a portion of Dr. Neuhouser’s research portfolio is focused on methods to improve diet and physical activity assessment and numerous aspects of health disparities, which links together nutrition, energy balance, and cancer risk. Dr. Neuhouser was a member of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee and currently serves as Vice-President of the American Society for Nutrition (2015-2016), and is to be President in 2016-2017.

Nico Pronk, Ph.D., FACSM, FAWHP, is Vice President for Health Management and Chief Science Officer for HealthPartners, a nonprofit, member-governed integrated health system headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dr. Pronk is also a senior research investigator at the HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research; adjunct professor for Society, Human Development and Health at the Harvard School of Public Health; visiting research professor in Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Minnesota, School of Public Health; member of the Task Force on Community Preventive Services; and founding and past-president of the International Association for Worksite Health Promotion. His research expertise lies in the areas of population health improvement, the role of physical activity in health, and the impact of multiple health behaviors on health outcomes. Dr. Pronk is particularly interested in improving population health in context of the employer setting, the integration of health promotion with occupational safety and health, and the integration of health promotion, behavioral health, and primary care. Dr. Pronk received a Ph.D. in exercise physiology from Texas A&M University and completed postdoctoral studies in behavioral medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in Pittsburgh.

Kim Robien, Ph.D., RD, CSO, FAND, is Associate Professor at The George Washington University in the Milken Institute School of Public Health. She is a registered dietitian, nutrition scientist, and epidemiologist whose research focuses on nutrition in relation to cancer prevention and survivorship. She is a certified specialist in oncology nutrition (CSO), and practiced as an oncology dietitian for more than 10 years prior to beginning her research career. Dr. Robien serves as Program Director for the Master’s in Public Health degree program in Public Health Nutrition at The George Washington University. She is a widely published scientific researcher, and also serves as a member of the editorial boards for the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and Nutrition in Clinical Practice.