Nutrition and Healthy Aging in the Community Workshop Summary (2012) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix B: Moderator and Speaker Biographical Sketches
Appendix B: Moderator and Speaker Biographical Sketches
Pages 119-132
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Her research endeavors over the past two decades have focused on a variety of topics and she has published broadly on nutritional frailty, nutritional interventions for chronic diseases in aging, obesity in late life, and calorie restriction as a modifier of the aging process. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Grace Goldsmith Award and Max K
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Ms. Borden currently serves as an Advisory Board Member of the Sesame Street Food Insecurity Advisory Committee, on the American Society of Association Executive's (ASAE's)
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Dr. Costello participated in the development of the ODS Strategic Plan and is charged with implementing the plan's goals and objectives by organizing workshops and conferences on dietary supplements, conducting scientific reviews to identify gaps in scientific knowledge, and initiating and coordinating research efforts among NIH Institutes and other federal agencies.
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A major limitation in the identification of elders at nutritional risk has been the lack of valid methodologies that have been tested in rigorous research studies with well-defined outcome measures. His team has therefore emphasized the development and testing of nutrition screening and assessment tools in relation to specific functional and health care resource outcomes for older persons.
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, the American Dietetic Association, the Institute of Food Technologies, and the inaugural class of national spokespeople for ASN. She serves on the editorial board of Journal of Nutrition in Gerontology and Geriatrics and as the Secretary-Treasurer for the ASN Medical Nutrition Council.
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She has also co-authored a guidebook for physical activity and nutrition education for the older adult with the National Resource Center for Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Aging funded by the Administration on Aging, and authored a book chapter on the impact of exercise on psychiatric disorders and diabetes mellitus. Elizabeth B
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She is a Medical Sociologist and Health Services Researcher.
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She has worked in care settings that include hospital, home health, nursing home, assisted living and now with the Alabama Elderly Nutrition Program. She assists in monitoring the state meal contract with Valley Food Service by on-site visits to the 350 senior centers and 6 commissaries in the state.
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Sahyoun, Ph.D., R.D., is Associate Professor of Nutritional Epidemiology at the Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Maryland in College Park. Her area of work is on the impact of lifestyle factors and physical functioning on dietary intake and nutritional status of older adults, and consequently on chronic disease and mortality.
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Sharkey, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D., is a Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Health, School of Rural Public Health (SRPH) at The Texas A&M Health Sciences Center in College Station, Texas; Director of the Texas Healthy Aging Research Network Collaborating Center; Director of the Texas Nutrition and Obesity Policy Research and Evaluation Network Collaborating Center; and Director of the Program for Research in Nutrition and Health Disparities at SRPH.
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Tucker, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair, Department of Health Sciences, at Northeastern University. Previously she was Senior Scientist and Director of the Dietary Assessment and Epidemiology Research Program at the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, and Professor and Director of the Nutritional Epidemiology Program for the Gerald J
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and Outcomes Study, and she co-chairs the DPP Medication Adherence Committee. Through the Prevention and Control Core of the DRC she provides or facilitates various intervention and evaluation services to multiple health disparities projects in the community.
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She recently retired as the Professor of Dietetics and Nutrition in the School of Public Health at Florida International University, the public research university in Miami. She is the former director of the National Resource Center on Nutrition, Physical Activity and Aging.
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