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Appendix E: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
Pages 311-318

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... Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committees and on the World Cancer Research Fund Expert Panel on Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer Prevention and is past president of the American Public Health Association. Her current service includes membership on the U.S.
From page 312...
... -funded study of the effects of dietary sodium and potassium intake on subclinical and clinical cardiovascular disease. She is a co-investigator on the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases–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, and is a co-investigator on the NHLBIfunded Optimal Macronutrient Intake (OMNI)
From page 313...
... Her professional service includes consultation for the World Health Organization, United Nations Children's Fund, Pan American Health Organization, National Institutes of Health, and the March of Dimes, scientific advisory committees for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK Medical Research Council, and serving as President of the Society for International Nutrition Research and of the International Society for Research on Human Milk and Lactation.
From page 314...
... She has broad experience and leadership in large clinical trials, including the Women's Health Initiative and the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial, small-scale controlled dietary interventions, and large observational cohorts. In addition, a portion of Dr.
From page 315...
... His statistical research areas include failure time data analysis methods; cohort study design and analysis methods; the use of biomarkers to address measurement error issues, especially in diet and physical activity epidemiology; surrogate outcome methods and limitations; and genomic and proteomic methods. He has served as Principal Investigator (PI)
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... -funded Center on Population Health and Health Disparities, studying the roles of diet, health behavior, stress, and genetic predisposition in relation to chronic conditions in Puerto Rican adults. She currently serves as a scientific adviser for, and leads a Vanguard data analysis center with, the Jackson Heart Study.
From page 317...
... Division of the National Center for Environmental Assessment. His research has focused on human health risk assessment, particularly with respect to toxicokinetics, mechanisms of toxicity, physiologically based pharmacokinetic modeling, dose-response assessment, and characterizing uncertainty and variability.
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... 318 PRINCIPLES FOR DEVELOPING DRIs BASED ON CHRONIC DISEASE response. He is currently Chair-elect of the Dose-Response Specialty Group of the Society for Risk Analysis.


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