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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Committee Member Biographies." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Scanning for New Evidence on Riboflavin to Support a Dietary Reference Intake Review. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26188.
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Committee Member Biographies

Barbara O. Schneeman, Ph.D. (Chair), is a professor emerita of the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) and currently serves on the Food and Nutrition Board. She was the director of the Office of Nutrition, Labeling, and Dietary Supplements at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where she oversaw developing policy and regulations for dietary supplements, labeling, food standards, infant formula, and medical foods. Her prior positions include the nutrition and food science faculty at UC Davis, the chair of the Department of Nutrition, the dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, and the associate vice provost for university outreach. She is a fellow of the American Society of Nutrition and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a National Associate of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She is a recipient of the Conrad Elvehjem Award for Public Service in Nutrition, the Gilbert Leveille award and lectureship, the Carl Fellers award, the Samuel Cate Prescott award for research, and the commissioner’s special citation, the Harvey W. Wiley Medal, and the merit award from FDA. She has a B.S. in food science from UC Davis; a Ph.D. in nutrition from the University of California, Berkeley; and postdoctoral training in gastrointestinal physiology at Children’s Hospital in Oakland, California.

Regan L. Bailey, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D., is a professor in the Department of Nutrition Science at Purdue University and directs the Indiana Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Purdue Nutrition Assessment Center. Previously, Dr. Bailey was a nutritional epidemiologist and the director of career development and outreach at the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Dietary Supplements. Dr. Bailey is a registered dietitian who completed a dietetic internship and M.S. in food and nutrition at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Bailey received her Ph.D. in nutrition science from The Pennsylvania State University. She completed an M.P.H. from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. The focus of her research is improving the methods of measuring nutritional status to optimize health. She uses nationally representative survey data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to characterize the American dietary landscape, identify the optimal methods for assessment of biomarkers of nutritional status, and, importantly, understand how dietary intakes relate to health outcomes.

Patsy M. Brannon, Ph.D., R.D., is currently a visiting professor (and a professor until her retirement in June 2018) in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University, where she also served as the dean of the College of Human Ecology. Before Cornell University, Dr. Brannon was the chair of the Nutrition and Food Science Department at the University of Maryland. She has also served as a visiting professor at the Office of Dietary Supplements at the National Institutes of Health. Her research focus includes nutritional and metabolic regulation of

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Committee Member Biographies." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Scanning for New Evidence on Riboflavin to Support a Dietary Reference Intake Review. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26188.
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gene expression, especially relating to human development, the placenta, and exocrine pancreas. She was a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee to Review Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamin D and Calcium, Committee to Review the Dietary Reference Intakes for Sodium and Potassium, and the Food and Nutrition Board. Dr. Brannon was a member of a number of professional and scientific associations and on the executive board of the American Society for Nutrition (ASN). She has received numerous awards, including the ASN Fellow, the Pew Faculty Scholar in Nutrition award, and the Centennial Laureate award from Florida State University. Dr. Brannon received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in nutritional biochemistry.

Martha S. Field, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. Her research focuses on understanding the complexity of gene–gene, gene–nutrient, and gene–nutrient–environment interactions that affect cellular metabolism and on the biochemical mechanisms whereby perturbations in metabolism affect human health and disease. Impaired folate-dependent, one-carbon metabolism is associated with adverse physiological outcomes that include certain cancers, cardiovascular disease, neurological impairments, and birth defects. Dr. Field uses several in vitro and in vivo model systems to study the mechanisms that underlie physiological outcomes associated with perturbed one-carbon metabolism. More specifically, she is interested in the contributions of folate nutrition and enzyme localization in supporting mitochondrial DNA precursor synthesis, with a focus on understanding how folate nutrition affects mitochondrial DNA integrity and pathogenesis of metabolic diseases, such as mitochondrial DNA depletion syndromes, chronic disease, and age-related decline in mitochondrial function. Recently, her research has focused on the metabolism of erythritol, a product of the pentose phosphate pathway that has emerged as a biomarker of weight gain and adiposity in young adults. Dr. Field received her Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular and cell biology from Cornell University.

Jesse Gregory, Ph.D., received his doctorate in food science from Michigan State University in 1977. He served in teaching and research on the faculty of the University of Florida as a professor of food science and human nutrition. He is known for his work on the chemistry, analysis, nutritional properties and metabolic function of B vitamins, especially folate and vitamin B6. He mentored approximately 35 graduate students and 15 postdoctoral research associates, and many have productive careers in academics or the food and nutrition industry. Dr. Gregory is recognized internationally as a leader in the fields of vitamin nutritional biochemistry and stable isotopic tracer techniques to the study of human metabolism and functional metabolic assessments of the marginal deficiency state. He recently retired from his academic post at the University of Florida and continues many other professional activities. He has a long record of professional service, including National Institutes of Health and U.S. Department of Agriculture review panels, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committees, various advisory committees, and editorial boards. He also serves as the associate editor of the Journal of Nutrition, a role he has held since 2005.

Alice H. Lichtenstein, D.Sc., is the Gershoff Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and a senior scientist and the director of the Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. She holds secondary appointments as an associated faculty

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Committee Member Biographies." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Scanning for New Evidence on Riboflavin to Support a Dietary Reference Intake Review. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26188.
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member in the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at the Tufts Medical Center and a professor of medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Lichtenstein’s research group focuses on assessing the interplay between diet and heart disease risk factors. Dr. Lichtenstein is a member of the American Society for Nutrition and Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health and Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology Councils of the American Heart Association (AHA). She is a past chair of the AHA Committee on Nutrition and a member of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/U.S. Department of Agriculture 2000 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee and the vice chair of the 2015 committee. Dr. Lichtenstein served on the Committee to Review the Dietary References Intakes for Sodium and Potassium, the Committee on the Consequences of Sodium Reduction in Populations; the Committee on Examination of Front-of-Package Nutrition Rating Systems and Symbols (Phases I and II) (vice chair); the Planning Committee on Future Trends in Food Safety: Changing Market Forces, Emerging Safety Issues, and Economic Impact: A Workshop; and the Panel on DRIs for Macronutrients. She was a member of the Food and Nutrition Board from 2015 to 2020 and the Food Forum from 2005 to 2008 and is currently a member of the Food Forum. She received her D.Sc. in nutritional biochemistry from Harvard University.

Ian J. Saldanha, M.B.B.S., M.P.H., Ph.D., is an assistant professor of health services, policy, and practice and an assistant professor of epidemiology in the Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health at the Brown University School of Public Health. He is an assistant director of the Brown University Evidence-based Practice Center, which is one of nine such centers funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Dr. Saldanha has expertise conducting systematic reviews and meta-analyses, developing and advancing methods to improve them, and teaching methods for their conduct. He has also researched the use of outcomes in clinical research. Dr. Saldanha recently served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Scanning New Evidence on Nutrient Content of Human Milk. Dr. Saldanha was the co-principal investigator (PI) of a National Academies contract to conduct a systematic review of public health emergency preparedness activities. He is the PI of AHRQ-funded systematic reviews of the management of primary headaches during pregnancy and breast reconstruction after mastectomy. Additionally, he is the PI of an AHRQ contract to develop, advance, maintain, and support the Systematic Review Data Repository. He has been the PI of two subcontracts to Brown University: the National Eye Institute–funded Cochrane Eyes and Vision U.S. Satellite and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute–funded Data Abstraction Assistant project. Dr. Saldanha is an elected member of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology and currently serves as its treasurer. He serves as the associate editor for two journals (Systematic Reviews and Journal of Glaucoma) and for the AHRQ Effective Healthcare Program. Dr. Saldanha has taught multiple courses and workshops related to systematic reviews, meta-analysis, clinical trials, and epidemiology at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels, including at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He received his M.B.B.S. (M.D. equivalent) from Grant Medical College in Mumbai, India, and his M.P.H. and Ph.D. in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Committee Member Biographies." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Scanning for New Evidence on Riboflavin to Support a Dietary Reference Intake Review. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26188.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Committee Member Biographies." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Scanning for New Evidence on Riboflavin to Support a Dietary Reference Intake Review. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26188.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Committee Member Biographies." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Scanning for New Evidence on Riboflavin to Support a Dietary Reference Intake Review. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26188.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Committee Member Biographies." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Scanning for New Evidence on Riboflavin to Support a Dietary Reference Intake Review. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26188.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Committee Member Biographies." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2021. Scanning for New Evidence on Riboflavin to Support a Dietary Reference Intake Review. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26188.
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The Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) are a set of evidence-based nutrient reference values for intakes that include the full range of age, gender, and life stage groups in the US and Canada. At the request of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine convened an ad hoc committee to carry out a literature search and evidence scan of the peer-reviewed published literature on indicators of nutritional requirements, toxicity, and chronic disease risk reduction for riboflavin.

Scanning for New Evidence on Riboflavin to Support a Dietary Reference Intake Review builds on the methodology for evidence scanning nutrients (which have existing DRIs) to determine whether there is new and relevant knowledge available that may merit a formal reexamination of DRIs for riboflavin. This report offers comments on the methodological approach to the evidence scan and discusses its findings and interpretation of the process to provide the study sponsors with a greater context to support their interpretation and application of the reported results.

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