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Appendix E: Committee Member Biographical Sketches
Appendix E: Committee Member Biographical Sketches
Pages 279-286
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Currently, she is conducting a 7-year randomized controlled trial to prevent childhood obesity, the Growing Right Onto Wellness Trial funded by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
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She is a co-investigator on the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK) –funded national, multicenter Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort Study, which aims to identify risk factors and mechanisms of progressive renal disease and cardiovascular events in individuals with chronic kidney disease.
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Dr. Hammond is an appointed member of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities advisory council, and serves as a public health advisor for the National Cancer Institute, an Advisory Special Government Employee for the Food and Drug Administration Center for Tobacco Products, and a commissioner for the Lancet Commission on Obesity.
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Dr. Hassink is an author on the obesity preven tion segment of the Expert Committee recommendations, senior editor of "A Parent's Guide to Childhood Obesity," author of "Pediatric Obesity: Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment Strategies for Primary Care," and author of "Clinical Guide to Pediatric Weight Management." She worked on the GLIDES project funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to embed the Expert Committee recommendation on obesity into the emergency health record at Nemours and was the principal investigator on an Obesity Cluster Grant developing population health management systems for children with obesity.
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in Biology from Brown University, graduated from the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and completed a residency in Family and Community Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. Following residency, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania where he received an M.S.
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He co-leads the study, "First Steps Evaluation of Childhood Obesity Prevention Policies in the New York State WIC Program," which is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the New York State Health Foundation. He currently serves on the Evaluation Committee for the National WIC
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Dr. Sun's statistical research includes modeling complex cross-sectional and longitudinal data for body composition and cardiovascular risk factors to elucidate the multifactorial matrix of variables associated with cardiovascular and metabolic disease.
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