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Appendix C: Speaker and Moderator Biosketches
Appendix C: Speaker and Moderator Biosketches
Pages 143-154
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He is a fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists, serving as its president in 1995-1996; the American Academy of Microbiology; the American Association for the Advancement of Science; the Institute of Food Science and Technology in the United Kingdom; the International Association for Food Protection; and the Academy of the International Union of Food Science and Technology. From 2011 to 2014, he chaired the Food Forum of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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Its research is aimed at identifying protective mechanisms invoked by caloric restriction and evaluating the consequences of dietary interventions for lifespan, pathology, and behavioral function, and balances the exploration of in vivo rodent as well as in vitro paradigms of caloric restriction.
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Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. At ODS her work involves the development of a Dietary Supplement Ingredient Database providing analytically substantiated values for key ingredients in dietary supplements, and the Dietary Supplement Label Database, a database of virtually all dietary supplements sold in the United States.
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Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University. He is also professor of nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and professor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.
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Mary Ann Johnson, Ph.D., is Bill and June Flatt Professor in Foods and Nutrition at the College of Family and Consumer Sciences and interim director of the Institute of Gerontology at the College of Public Health, University of Georgia. She conducts research and outreach programs for older people to improve dietary habits, physical activity, and self-management of chronic diseases, and also studies centenarians.
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KwikUribe has been actively involved in research on the unique role of bioactives in foods in supporting and optimizing health, with a particular focus on the bioactives in cocoa, known as cocoa flavanols. This global research program on cocoa flavanols has taken a multidisciplinary research approach to understanding the potential role of these compounds in supporting human health, with the research spanning from the development of validated
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Douglas "Duffy" MacKay, N.D., is senior vice president, scientific and regulatory affairs for the Council for Responsible Nutrition, where he oversees the Science and Regulatory Affairs Department, ensuring that the association's scientific, policy, and legislative positions are based on credible scientific rationale. His expertise combines practical knowledge of industry regulation and scientific product development with hands-on experience as a medical practitioner.
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Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University since 2009 and is currently transitioning to the position of vice provost for research at Tufts University. She is professor of nutrition and immunology at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and the Tufts Sackler Graduate Program in Immunology.
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Papas has been the principal investigator of more than 100 clinical trials. She co-authored a textbook titled Nutrition in Clinical Dentistry, and has conducted research on the interrelationship between nutrition and oral health in an aging population with the Tufts U.S.
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As part of that effort, she was co-chair of the Subcommittee on Dietary Reference Intakes of the Interagency Committee on Human Nutrition Research
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as a veterinary epidemiologist in 2003. In 2005, she rejoined the CDC as a liaison with the Armed Forces Medical Intelligence Center, and in 2006 she joined The MITRE Corporation, where her management of a team of engineers was essential to developing innovative data architecture research and development across the federal government.
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She is past president of the American Society for Nutritional Sciences. She sits on several boards, has received multiple honors and awards, and has published numerous research articles.
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