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Appendix F: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Appendix F: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 173-182
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She has also been awarded the Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Pauline Schmitt Russell Distinguished Research Career Award from The Pennsylvania State University.
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Her research involves the design and testing of innova tive clinical and community-based nutrition and physical activity intervention approaches for chronic disease risk reduction in primarily low-income and minority populations. Her most recent research interests focus on school nutri tion policy associated with childhood obesity, sustainable agriculture as it relates to improved nutrition, and social entrepreneurship as a sustainable approach to addressing health disparities.
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She co-developed Feeding Young Children in Group Settings, an educational program designed for child care professionals, educators, food service workers, and others who train staff or parents on issues related to feeding. She also co-developed Mealtime and Active Play Partnerships, a website that includes childhood obesity prevention training materials.
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His major areas of research interest include gastro Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Policies 176
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from New York Medical College, completed his residency and a postgraduate fellowship in molecular biology at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in New York, and completed a fellowship in pediatric gastroenterology and nutrition at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. SUSAN LANDRY, Ph.D., is Albert and Margaret Alkek Chair in Early Childhood and Michael Matthew Knight professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston.
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Ms. Oudekerk oversees program evaluation activities for CACFP obesity prevention projects by collecting, analyzing, and disseminating data and reports on the success of nutrition and physical activity interventions in New York communities.
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Schools of Medicine and Public Health, co-founder and medical director of the Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA Fit for Healthy Weight program, founder and co-director of the Community Health and Advocacy Pediatric Residency Training Program, and founder and director of the UCLA Breastfeeding Resource Program. She worked on the conception and implementation of the National Breastfeeding Policy Conference, which brought together more than 100 national leaders from different sectors and formulated a series of breastfeeding policy recommendations.
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She is also director of the One Step Ahead clinic, a multidisciplinary childhood overweight prevention and early management program at Children's Hospital Boston. Her research interests include nutrition and physical activity as they affect child health and childhood obesity prevention.
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Dr. Whitaker completed his residency and fellowship in pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and he received postdoctoral training as a Robert Wood Johnson clinical scholar.
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