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Appendix C

Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers, Moderators, and Planning Committee Members

Mariëtte Abrahams, Ph.D., M.B.A., R.D., is founder and chief executive officer of Qina, a business-to-business platform and consultancy that provides access to a curated database of personalized nutrition solutions and a network of domain experts. She has been working in the clinical and medical nutrition industry for more than 20 years and leverages her combined expertise in nutrition, business, and research to help businesses navigate the personalized nutrition industry, provide market insights, and innovate. Dr. Abrahams received an M.B.A. from The Open University and a Ph.D. in personalized nutrition from the University of Bradford.

Andres J. Acosta, M.D., Ph.D., is a consultant in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, at the Mayo Clinic, having joined the staff in 2016. He is also assistant professor of medicine in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science and provides mentorship to medical students, clinical fellows, and others. Dr. Acosta’s main career goal is to understand and cure obesity. His research focuses on gastrointestinal physiology, utilizing a combination of genetics, physiology, pharmacology, proteomics, metabolomics, and gastrointestinal and brain imaging to understand food intake regulation and to modulate these factors for the treatment of obesity. He is principal investigator and coinvestigator on research funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Dr. Acosta is a member of the American College of Gastroenterology, the American Gastroenterological Association, the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, and The Obesity Society. He earned a B.S. in health science and an M.D. at Universidad San Francisco de Quito

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers, Moderators, and Planning Committee Members." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Challenges and Opportunities for Precision and Personalized Nutrition: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26299.
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in Ecuador, graduating magna cum laude for both degrees. Dr. Acosta earned a Ph.D. in physiology and pharmacology at the University of Florida College of Medicine, and completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Florida Health Shands Hospital.

Joshua Anthony, Ph.D., M.B.A., M.S., is founder and chief executive officer at Nlumn, a consulting company that works with food, nutrition, and health-technology companies to help them compete in the personalized nutrition and health marketplace. Nlumn’s mission is to make personalized nutrition accessible to help every individual make better choices and live a healthier life. Dr. Anthony has worked collaboratively to help launch more than 150 science-based nutrition products. Before starting Nlumn, he was founding chief science officer at the personalized nutrition company Habit. He was also vice president of global research and development in nutrition and health at the Campbell Soup Company. Prior to working with Habit and Campbell, Dr. Anthony held technical and management roles at Mead Johnson Nutrition and Unilever. He also served as an adjunct professor of physiology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Anthony earned a B.S. in biological sciences from Carnegie Mellon University, an M.S. in nutritional sciences from the University of Illinois, an M.B.A. from Vanderbilt University, and a Ph.D. in cell and molecular physiology from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine.

Guruduth Banavar, Ph.D., M.B.A., M.S., is chief technology officer and leads the development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems at Viome, a company that offers unprecedented visibility into the human biological ecosystem and delivers personalized food and supplement recommendations to deter chronic disease. Until April 2017, he was a global vice president at IBM, leading Watson AI research. Dr. Banavar has built a range of advanced technologies and solutions in multiple industries throughout his career. He delivered the 2017 Turing Lecture, and has spoken at Nobel Prize award ceremonies, the Aspen Ideas Festival, and the Milken Conference. He received the Leadership in Technology Management Award from the Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology in 2017 and a National Innovation Award from the President of India in 2009. Dr. Banavar has served on New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s commission for state resiliency, and he was an elected member of the IBM Academy of Technology. He has published extensively and holds more than 30 U.S. patents. His work has been featured in international media outlets, including The New York Times, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, the BBC, and NPR. Dr. Banavar holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Utah.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers, Moderators, and Planning Committee Members." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Challenges and Opportunities for Precision and Personalized Nutrition: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26299.
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Sarah Berry, Ph.D., M.Sc., is associate professor at King’s College London and serves on the scientific advisory board for ZOE. Her research interests relate to the influence of dietary components on markers of cardiovascular disease risk, with a particular focus on precision nutrition, postprandial metabolism, and food and fat structure. Since commencing her research career at King’s in 2000, Dr. Berry has been the academic leader for more than 30 human nutrition studies in cardiometabolic health. Ongoing research involves human and mechanistic studies to elucidate how markers of cardiometabolic health can be modulated following acute and chronic intakes of different fatty acids, as well as studies to investigate the influence of the food matrix on macro- and micronutrient release from different plant-based foods and subsequent effects on postprandial measures. Dr. Berry is also lead nutritional scientist on the PREDICT program, assessing the genetic, metabolic, metagenomic, and meal-dependent effects on metabolic responses to food in more than 6,000 individuals in the United Kingdom and United States. This research is at the forefront of developments in personalized nutrition and is forging a new way forward in the design and implementation of large-scale remote nutrition research studies integrating novel technologies, citizen science, and artificial intelligence. Dr. Berry is also academic lead on the COVID Symptom Study Diet and Lifestyle Questionnaire with 1.1 million participants, assessing diet and lifestyle behaviors before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and relationship with COVID-19 risk and obesity. She holds an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in nutrition from King’s College London.

Patsy Brannon, Ph.D., R.D., is currently visiting professor, and was professor until her retirement in June 2018, in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University, where she has also served as dean of the College of Human Ecology. Prior to moving to Cornell University, Dr. Brannon was chair of the Department of Nutrition and Food Science at the University of Maryland. She has also served as visiting professor at the Office of Dietary Supplements at the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Brannon’s research focus includes nutritional and metabolic regulation of 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 committees on Dietary Reference Intakes for vitamin D and calcium and for sodium and potassium, as well as the National Academies’ Food and Nutrition Board. Dr. Brannon was a member of a number of professional and scientific associations and has served on the executive board of the American Society for Nutrition (ASN). She has received numerous awards, including the ASN Fellow, Pew Faculty Scholar in Nutrition award, and the Centennial Laureate award from Florida State University. Dr. Brannon received her Ph.D. in nutritional biochemistry from Cornell University.

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Robert (Rob) M. Califf, M.D., M.Acc, is head of clinical policy and strategy for Verily and Google Health. Prior to this, he was vice chancellor for health data science for the Duke University School of Medicine; director of Duke Forge, Duke’s center for health data science; and the Donald F. Fortin, M.D., professor of cardiology. Dr. Califf served as deputy commissioner for medical products and tobacco in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from 2015 to 2016, and as commissioner of food and drugs from 2016 to 2017. He was founding director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute and is one of the most frequently cited authors in biomedical science. A nationally and internationally recognized leader in cardiovascular medicine, health outcomes research, health care quality, and clinical research, Dr. Califf is a graduate of the Duke University School of Medicine.

Susan Carnell, Ph.D., is associate professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she heads the Appetite Lab. A central question motivating her research is, “Why do some people develop obesity while others do not?” Dr. Carnell’s research program investigates the model that individuals differ in appetite-related biobehavioral traits (e.g., food cue responsiveness, satiety sensitivity) that manifest early in life, show genetic influence, and interact with environmental factors to predict eating behaviors and weight trajectories. To probe this model she employs a range of methods including behavioral tests, questionnaires, genotyping, hormonal assays, and neuroimaging techniques. Ongoing research projects include investigations of appetite and body weight in infants, children, adolescents, and adults, including studies of bariatric surgery and eating disorders. Dr. Carnell received a B.A. in experimental psychology from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. in health psychology at University College London, and she completed postdoctoral training at Columbia University.

Cindy D. Davis, Ph.D., serves as national program leader for the Human Nutrition Program conducted by the U.S. Department of Agricultural (USDA) Agricultural Research Service. In this role, she helps direct the scientific program for six Human Nutrition Research Centers. Prior to joining USDA, Dr. Davis was director of grants and extramural activities in the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), where she actively engaged and encouraged partnerships with other National Institutes of Health (NIH) institutes and centers to develop a portfolio for advancing both nutritional and botanical dietary supplement research for optimizing public health. She is actively involved in a number of government working groups focused on the microbiome, including as cofounder and cochair of the Joint Agency Microbiome (NIH, Food and Drug Administration, National Institute of

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers, Moderators, and Planning Committee Members." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Challenges and Opportunities for Precision and Personalized Nutrition: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26299.
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Standards and Technology, and USDA) working group. Before coming to ODS, Dr. Davis was a program director in the Nutritional Sciences Research Group at the National Cancer Institute. She completed her postdoctoral training at the Laboratory of Experimental Carcinogenesis at the National Cancer Institute, and then joined the Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, USDA, as a research nutritionist. In 2000, Dr. Davis received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and was named the USDA Early Career Scientist. She has published more than 135 peer-reviewed journal articles and 11 invited book chapters, and she is a supplement editor for the Journal of Nutrition, assistant editor for Nutrition Reviews, and a member of the editorial board for Advances in Nutrition. Dr. Davis received a B.S. degree in nutritional sciences with honors from Cornell University and a Ph.D. degree in nutrition with a minor in human cancer biology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Eric A. Decker, Ph.D., M.S., is professor and head of the Department of Food Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass), and has served since 2008 as director of the UMass Food Science Industry Strategic Research Alliance. Dr. Decker is actively conducting research to characterize mechanisms of lipid oxidation, antioxidant protection of foods, and the health implications of bioactive lipids. He has authored more than 430 publications and has been listed as one of the most highly cited scientists in agriculture since 2005. Dr. Decker has served on numerous committees for such institutions as the Food and Drug Administration; the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; the Institute of Food Technologists; the U.S. Department of Agriculture; and the American Heart Association. He has received recognition for his research and service from the American Oil Chemist Society, the Agriculture and Food Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society, the Institute of Food Technologists, UMass, and the University of Kentucky. Dr. Decker has also been elected to serve as an officer for the American Meat Science Association and the Institute of Food Technologists, and, most recently, as the president of the American Oil Chemist Society. He holds an M.S. in food science and nutrition from Washington State University and a Ph.D. in food science and nutrition from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Kayla de la Haye, Ph.D., is associate professor of population and public health sciences at the University of Southern California. She works to address key public health issues by integrating behavioral science, network science, and systems science, focusing on family and community social networks and the environments in which people live, to promote healthy eating and food security and to prevent diet-related diseases and health disparities. Her research also explores the role of social networks in how

Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers, Moderators, and Planning Committee Members." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Challenges and Opportunities for Precision and Personalized Nutrition: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26299.
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families, teams, and coalitions solve complex problems and address health risks. Previously, Dr. de la Haye worked as an associate behavioral/social scientist at the RAND Corporation. She serves on the executive committee of the International Network of Social Network Analysis (INSNA), and in 2018, she received the INSNA Freeman Award for significant contributions to the study of social structure. Dr. de la Haye holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Adelaide in Australia.

Sean Duffy is cofounder and chief executive officer of Omada Health, a digital care program that empowers people to achieve their health goals through sustainable lifestyle change. In 2017, Omada was recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and in 2016, the company was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. Prior to Omada, he worked at both Google and IDEO. Recognized as a thought leader on the future of health care, Mr. Duffy has written or spoken extensively in The New England Journal of Medicine and The Wall Street Journal, and at the World Economic Forum. A former M.D./M.B.A. candidate at Harvard, he holds a B.S. in neuroscience from Columbia University.

Ahmed El-Sohemy, Ph.D., is professor and Canada research chair in nutrigenomics at the University of Toronto. He joined the faculty in 2000 to establish a research program in nutrigenomics, with the goal of identifying biomarkers of dietary exposure and elucidating the genetic basis for variability in nutrient response and dietary preferences. Dr. El-Sohemy collaborates with researchers across Canada, as well as the United States, Costa Rica, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland, South Korea, and Singapore. He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles and has given almost 100 invited talks around the world. Dr. El-Sohemy is on the editorial board of eight journals and served as an expert reviewer for more than 30 scientific and medical journals and 12 granting agencies. He earned a Ph.D. in nutritional sciences from the University of Toronto and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Martin Hahn, J.D., is partner at Hogan Lovells, where he uses his background in food technology and his comprehensive understanding of the laws governing the food industry to help clients navigate through the countless regulatory and business issues impacting the industry from farm to table. He recognizes the demands clients face and finds innovative and creative solutions, particularly when responding to observations raised by regulators during inspections. Mr. Hahn has handled almost every issue impacting the food industry and has developed a comprehensive understanding of the laws affecting the labeling and advertising of foods, dietary supplements, infant formulas, medical foods, foods for special dietary use,

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and hemp extracts when positioned as a food or dietary supplement. He helps anticipate new trends and develops the data needed to distinguish a client’s products from others on the market. Mr. Hahn uses his understanding of science and technology in the food industry to provide assistance in obtaining regulatory authorizations to market new food ingredients, food packaging materials, and dietary ingredients. He holds a J.D. from Northwestern University.

Constance Hilliard, Ph.D., M.A., is professor of evolutionary history at the University of North Texas. In recent years, she has pioneered the field of African evolutionary history, a discipline emerging at the intersection of environmental history and genomics, offering previously overlooked clues as to the etiology of certain health disparities for which Americans of African descent have unusually high susceptibilities. Her Ancestral Gene Variants Model identifies certain beneficial ancestral gene variants in the unique ecology of the West Africa interior, which may become maladaptive in the U.S. dietary culture, particularly as relates to calcium and sodium intake. Dr. Hilliard received a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in history from Harvard University.

Michael Howell, M.D., M.P.H., is chief clinical officer and deputy chief health officer at Google, where he focuses on how technology can help improve health and health care. He was previously chief quality officer at the University of Chicago Medicine, where he was the senior physician responsible for overseeing the quality of care at the health system. Before that, Dr. Howell served at Harvard Medical School and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in a variety of roles focused on quality, patient safety, and health care delivery science. An active investigator, he has published more than 100 research articles, editorials, and book chapters. These studies have been covered by CNN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Consumer Reports, among others. A nationally recognized expert on patient safety and quality, Dr. Howell has also served on national advisory and guideline panels for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Medicare, the National Academy of Medicine, and national professional associations. His book, Understanding Healthcare Delivery Science, focuses on the intersection of real-world improvement and research quality methods in the complex environment of health care. He holds an M.P.H. and M.D. from Harvard University.

Abigail (Abby) Johnson, Ph.D., R.D., is assistant professor and registered dietitian in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota. She is also associate director of the Nutrition Coordinating Center, which distributes and

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supports the Nutrition Data System for Research. Dr. Johnson has diverse experiences in nutrition research, ranging from molecular biology and clinical nutrition to bioinformatics and public health. Her present research explores the relationships between diet and the human gut microbiome in health and disease using novel computational methods to integrate dietary data with other multiomics data. She has demonstrated that daily changes in dietary intake and overall dietary patterns are reflected in shifts in microbial composition in humans. Dr. Johnson received a B.S. in nutrition and biology and a Ph.D. in nutrition from the University of Minnesota. Her training has included industry postdoctoral work with Nestle Health Science and academic postdoctoral training in bioinformatics and the microbiome under the mentorship of Dr. Dan Knights at the University of Minnesota.

Jim Kaput, Ph.D., is cofounder and chief scientific officer of Vydiant, which is developing a comprehensive knowledge base of factors affecting health and disease, using digital health tools to deliver personalized recommendations to individuals. He has been developing strategies and methods to target nutrition for improving personal and public health for his entire career. Dr. Kaput was a staff and biochemistry faculty member at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, director of the Northwestern University Biotechnology Laboratory, and coordinator of science and administrative activities for the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities Center of Excellence in Nutritional Genomics at the University of California, Davis. From 2007 to 2011, he was director of the Division of Personalized Nutrition and Medicine at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s National Center for Toxicological Research, where his team collaborated with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Boys, Girls, Adults Community Development Center in Marvell, Arkansas. Dr. Kaput was a member of the executive committee of NuGO (Nutrigenomics Organization) for 8 years, and for 5 years he was coeditor of Genes & Nutrition. His most recent past position was senior expert at the Nestle Institute of Health Sciences from 2011 to 2017. Dr. Kaput received a Ph.D. from Colorado State University in biochemistry and molecular biology and spent 5 years as a postdoctoral fellow and assistant professor at the Rockefeller University in the laboratory of Günter Blobel, the 1999 Nobel laureate in physiology and medicine.

Samantha Kleinberg, Ph.D., is associate professor of computer science at Stevens Institute of Technology. She received the National Science Foundation’s CAREER award and the Complex Systems Scholar award from the James S. McDonnell Foundation, and she is a 2016 Kavli fellow of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Kleinberg is author of Causality,

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Probability, and Time (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Why: A Guide to Finding and Using Causes (O’Reilly Media, 2015), and she is editor of Time and Causality Across the Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 2019). She received a Ph.D. in computer science from New York University and was a computing innovation fellow at Columbia University in the Department of Biomedical Informatics.

Katie Koecher, Ph.D., is associate expert nutrition scientist at General Mills Bell Institute of Health and Nutrition, where she leads the nutrition research strategic plan and pipeline development and conducts research on carbohydrates and health, weight management, diabetes, and, more recently, personalized nutrition. She has held various positions in food science and nutrition, including product developer at Nestle Health Science and contract microbiologist for 3M. Currently, Dr. Koecher serves as committee cochair for the Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences (previously ILSI-North America) carbohydrate committee. She completed a Ph.D. in food science and nutrition at the University of Minnesota.

Bruce Y. Lee, M.D., M.B.A., is professor of health policy and management at the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy, where he is executive director of Public Health Computational and Operations Research and executive director of the Center for Advanced Technology and Communication in Health. He is a systems modeler, and a computational and digital health expert, writer, and health journalist. Dr. Lee has more than two decades’ experience in industry and academia, developing mathematical and computational models to assist a wide range of decision makers in health and public health. Dr. Lee is a senior contributor for Forbes, covering a wide range of health-related topics, and his writing has also appeared in other media outlets, including The New York Times, Time, The Guardian, HuffPost, and MIT Technology Review. He holds an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School.

Peter Lurie, M.D., M.P.H., is president of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Previously, he was associate commissioner for public health strategy and analysis at the Food and Drug Administration, where he worked on antimicrobial resistance, transparency, caffeinated beverages, arsenic in rice, fish consumption by pregnant and nursing women, expanded access to investigational drugs, and prescription drug abuse. Prior to that, Dr. Lurie was deputy director of Public Citizen’s Health Research Group, where he addressed drug and device issues, coauthored the organization’s Worst Pills, Best Pills consumer guide to medications, and led efforts to reduce worker exposure to hexavalent chromium and beryllium.

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Earlier, as a faculty member at the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of Michigan, he studied needle exchange programs, ethical aspects of mother-to-infant HIV transmission studies, and other HIV policy issues domestically and abroad. Dr. Lurie earned an M.D. from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

John Mathers, Ph.D., is professor of human nutrition, director of the Human Nutrition Research Centre, and director of the Centre for Healthier Lives in Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. His major research interests are in understanding how eating patterns influence risks of age-related diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, dementia, and bowel cancer, using genomic and epigenomics approaches to understand the mechanisms though which nutrition influences cell function and, ultimately, health. Dr. Mathers led the European Union–funded Food4Me intervention study, which used a web-based approach to deliver a personalized nutrition intervention across seven European countries. He has a long-term interest in developing and implementing large-scale human intervention studies to improve healthy aging, and to reduce the risk of common age-related diseases, including bowel cancer and dementia. Dr. Mathers is past president of the Nutrition Society and has served on numerous grants panels and other committees for the Medical Research Council, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, World Cancer Research Fund, and other research funders. He is a trustee of the British Nutrition Foundation and of the Rank Prize Funds, and is editor-in-chief of the British Journal of Nutrition. Dr. Mathers was an undergraduate in Newcastle and undertook his Ph.D. and postdoctoral research in the University of Cambridge, followed by a research fellow post in Edinburgh University before being appointed in Newcastle.

Josiemer Mattei, Ph.D., M.S., M.P.H., is Donald and Sue Pritzker associate professor of nutrition at the Department of Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She investigates genetic, dietary, and psychosocial determinants of cardiometabolic diseases in racial and ethnic groups and underserved populations, as a framework to explain health disparities, using observational studies and culturally tailored community interventions. Dr. Mattei recently served as a panelist for the National Institutes of Health workshop on Precision Nutrition: Research Gaps and Opportunities, presenting on social determinants of health and inequities in precision nutrition. She is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Leader and received the Mark Bieber Award for Outstanding Nutrition-related Research by the American Heart Association. Dr. Mattei obtained an M.P.H. in epidemiology and biostatistics and a Ph.D. in nutritional biochemistry from Tufts University.

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Robin McKinnon, Ph.D., M.P.A., is senior advisor for nutrition policy at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), where she works to advance nutrition-related activities across CFSAN, including FDA’s Nutrition Innovation Strategy. Prior to joining FDA, she was a health policy specialist at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health. At NCI, Dr. McKinnon led policy-relevant research initiatives on diet, obesity, and physical activity. She previously served on the planning committee for the 2009 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine workshop on The Public Health Effects of Food Deserts. Dr. McKinnon earned an M.P.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in public policy and administration from George Washington University.

Christian Metallo, Ph.D., M.S., is professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and adjunct professor of bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego. He studies how diet, genetics, and other factors alter metabolism to drive such diseases as cancer and neuropathy. Dr. Metallo’s work focuses on mapping the biochemical networks sustaining biosynthesis and bioenergetics to uncover the mechanistic basis of disease and identify new therapeutic strategies. Using stable isotope tracers and advanced mass spectroscopy techniques, his lab quantifies how metabolic pathways are altered in cells, animal models, and patients. Taking this approach, Dr. Metallo has made key discoveries about the metabolic pathways that drive cancer progression and macular disease—pathways that can be influenced through dietary manipulations or targeted therapies. He was recently elected a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Dr. Metallo received a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.S. and Ph.D. in chemical and biological engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Denise M. Ney, Ph.D., R.D.N., is professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she served as department chair and director of the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Nutritional Sciences. For more than 25 years, she has conducted research on how nutrition impacts gastrointestinal physiology and rare genetic diseases, focusing on the neuroendocrine regulation of intestinal adaptation and phenylketonuria (PKU), an inherited metabolic disorder that requires lifelong dietary restriction of the amino acid phenylalanine (Phe) to prevent cognitive impairment. Dr. Ney invented a way to use glycomacropeptide, a whey protein produced during cheesemaking, to formulate low-Phe medical foods, resulting in improved health for individuals with PKU worldwide. For this research, she is recognized as a Rare Disease Hero

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by the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Orphan Products Development, and is the recipient of the Spitze Land Grant Faculty Award from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Mary Schwartz Rose and Fellow awards from the American Society for Nutrition. Dr. Ney has mentored 13 Ph.D. students within her research program, many of whom hold faculty positions, and she directed the Didactic Program in Dietetics leading to more than 1,000 students achieving careers as registered dietitian nutritionists. She has published 135 research articles and 10 book chapters and is an inventor on two patents. Dr. Ney received a Ph.D. in nutrition science from the University of California, Davis.

Michal Rein, M.Sc., R.D., is pursuing a Ph.D. under joint supervision of Eran Segal from the Weizmann Institute of Science and Shira Zelber-Sagi from the University of Haifa. She is a registered dietitian, specializing in dietary interventions and modifications, and leads studies observing the effect of personally tailored diets by predictions of glycemic responses aimed to improve glycemic status and other metabolic parameters in various populations (such as healthy individuals, subjects with glucose intolerance, and breast cancer survivors). Additionally, Ms. Rein is a part of ongoing research integrating the data of dietary intake, personal characteristics, microbiome features and omics data on the influences of the individual reaction to glucose and other health indicators.

Christina A. Roberto, Ph.D., is Mitchell J. Blutt and Margo Krody Blutt presidential associate professor of health policy at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). She is also director of the Psychology of Eating and Consumer Health laboratory (PEACH lab) and associate director of the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics at Penn. The mission of the PEACH lab is to identify and evaluate policies and interventions that promote healthy eating habits and prevent nutrition-related chronic diseases. The lab strives to help create a just and equitable food system in which those with the fewest resources and opportunities have the same chance to live a long, healthy life as those with the most. The PEACH lab works closely with policy makers and influencers to ask important, creative, and timely research questions that provide policy makers and institutions with science-based guidance. Dr. Roberto has an undergraduate degree in psychology from Princeton University, where she graduated magna cum laude; she earned a joint Ph.D. in clinical psychology and chronic disease epidemiology at Yale University. Additionally, Dr. Roberto completed a clinical internship at the Yale School of Medicine and was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation health and society scholar at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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Nicholas J. Schork, Ph.D., M.A., is deputy director and distinguished professor of quantitative medicine at the Translational Genomics Research Institute. He is also adjunct professor of population sciences and molecular and cellular biology at City of Hope, adjunct professor of psychiatry and biostatistics at the University of California, San Diego, and adjunct professor of integrative structural and computational biology at the Scripps Research Institute. Prior to his current positions, Dr. Schork was professor and director of human biology at the J. Craig Venter Institute, professor of molecular and experimental medicine at Scripps Research, and director of bioinformatics and biostatistics for the Scripps Translational Science Institute. Between 1999 and 2000, he took a leave of absence from Case Western Reserve University to conduct research as vice president of statistical genomics at the French biotechnology company Genset, where he helped guide efforts to construct the first high-density map of genetic variation in the human genome. He has published more than 550 articles in many areas of biomedical and translation science, as well as areas of integrated nutrigenomics and the design of personalized nutritional trials. He was a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Food and Nutrition Board from 2003 to 2007, and has a long history of collaborative and consortium-related research, in which he has contributed analysis methodology and applied data analysis expertise. Dr. Schork has 12 patents associated with genetic analysis methodology, has been involved with more than 10 start-up companies, and has mentored more than 75 students and postdoctoral fellows. He earned a Ph.D. in genetic epidemiology from the University of Michigan.

Michael Snyder, Ph.D., is Stanford Ascherman professor and chair of genetics and director of the Center of Genomics and Personalized Medicine at Stanford University. He is a leader in functional genomics and multiomics and is one of the major participants of the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements project. His laboratory was the first to perform a large-scale functional genomics project in any organism and has developed many technologies in genomics and proteomics, developing technologies for characterizing genomes, proteomes, and regulatory networks. Seminal findings from the Snyder Laboratory include the discovery that much more of the human genome is transcribed and contains regulatory information than was previously appreciated, and that a high diversity of transcription factor binding occurs both between and within species. Dr. Snyder launched the field of personalized medicine by combining different state-of-the-art omics technologies to perform the first longitudinal detailed integrative personal omics profile of a person, and his laboratory pioneered the use of wearable technologies (smart watches and continuous glucose monitoring) for precision

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health. He is cofounder of many biotechnology companies, including Personalis, SensOmics, Qbio, January, Protos, Oralome, Mirvie, and Filtricine. Dr. Snyder received Ph.D. training at the California Institute of Technology and carried out postdoctoral training at Stanford University.

Patrick J. Stover, Ph.D., is vice chancellor and dean for agriculture and life sciences at Texas A&M AgriLife, and director of Texas A&M AgriLife Research. As vice chancellor, he oversees coordination and collaboration of the agriculture, academic, and research programs across the Texas A&M University System, as well as four state agencies: Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory, and Texas A&M Forest Service. Dr. Stover is also director of AgriLife Research, where he oversees 13 research centers across the state with a research portfolio of more than 500 projects and $214.2 million in annual research funding. As dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Dr. Stover leads more than 7,000 students and 330 faculty members in 15 academic departments. He previously directed the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. An international leader in biochemistry and nutrition, Dr. Stover focuses his research on the biochemical, genetic, and epigenetic mechanisms that underlie the relationships between folic acid and human pathologies, such as developmental anomalies, neuropathies, and cancer. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also former president of the American Society for Nutrition and has served two terms on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Food and Nutrition Board. Dr. Stover received a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biophysics from the Medical College of Virginia.

Diana M. Thomas, Ph.D., is professor of mathematical sciences at the United States Military Academy at West Point. She has been an active research mathematician for more than 25 years, with a focus on nutrition and obesity-related modeling, working with large, complex, and high-dimensional datasets. Dr. Thomas coinvented the remote weight loss program, SmartLoss™, which has been clinically applied worldwide to guide and improve individual patient weight loss adherence through smartphone technology. She has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles and has led the development of more than 10 freely accessible health calculators. Dr. Thomas is associate editor of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and coedits the series “Best (but oft-forgotten) practices,” consisting of methodologic commentaries or statistical tutorials, and also serves as editor for Nutrition and Diabetes and the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. She has held governance positions in The Obesity Society, the American

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Society of Nutrition, and the Mathematical Association of America. Dr. Thomas holds the 2012 Mathematical Association of America New Jersey Section Distinguished Teaching Award and the 2015 Obesity Society George Bray Founder’s Award. She received a Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology and completed a National Research Council–funded postdoctoral fellowship at the United States Military Academy and the Army Research Laboratory.

Steven Zeisel, M.D., Ph.D., is Kenan distinguished university professor in nutrition and pediatrics, director of the Nutrition Research Institute, and director of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Nutrition Obesity Research Center, as well as founder and scientific advisor for SNP Therapeutics. The Nutrition Research Institute focuses on using genetic, epigenetic, and metabolomic methods to discover why there is individual variation in responses to and requirements for nutrients. The UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center is one of 12 centers of excellence in nutrition research funded by the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Zeisel’s research focuses on dietary requirements for the nutrient choline, genetic variation as a source of individual differences in requirements for and responses to nutrients, effects of choline and folate on stem cell proliferation, and apoptosis and resulting effects on health. SNP Therapeutics develops tests to detect gene variants that alter the metabolism of nutrients and result in health problems. Dr. Zeisel has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed scientific papers. He holds an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and a Ph.D. in nutrition from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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The Food Forum of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a virtual workshop, Challenges and Opportunities for Precision and Personalized Nutrition, on August 10-12, 2021. The workshop explored potential challenges and opportunities in the application of precision and personalized nutrition approaches to optimize dietary guidance and improve nutritional status. Workshops presenters discussed current precision and personalized nutrition research methodologies, limitations in data and design, adapting technologies for utilization, and policy and regulatory challenges. This Proceedings of a Workshop summarizes the presentations and discussions of the workshop.

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