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Appendix B: Speaker and Moderator Biographical Sketches
Appendix B: Speaker and Moderator Biographical Sketches
Pages 97-110
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Birch's laboratory on factors affecting the developing controls of food intake in the first years of life, including food preferences and responsiveness to portion size and energy density, have contributed to the evidence base on behavioral factors implicated in the development of childhood obesity. These findings laid the groundwork for exploring individual, familial, and contextual factors that shape the development of differences in eating behavior and obesity.
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Staff within the branch focus on providing surveillance, applied research, guidelines development, and technical assistance to state, territorial, tribal, and local health agencies. Topics include food service guidelines, healthy weight programs for children, food insecurity, body mass index, and chronic disease factors, including fruits and vegetables, drinking water, added sugars, and sugar-sweetened beverages.
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Committee on Nutrition Standards for National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs and the Committee to Review Child and Adult Care Food Program Meal Requirements. She was also a member of the IOM Planning Committee on the Review of the Child and Adult Care Food Program Meal Requirements: A Workshop, and chair of the Planning Committee for the Workshop on National Nutrition Education Curriculum Standards, held on March 11–12, 2014.
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He is co-author of Medical Epidemiology, an introductory textbook for medical students, and co-author and editor of the book Pediatric Prevention of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease. In 2015, he was awarded the Gold Heart Award by the American Heart Association (AHA)
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Christina Economos, Ph.D., is a professor and the New Balance chair in childhood nutrition at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and Medical School at Tufts University. She is also the co-founder and director of ChildObesity180, a unique organization that brings together leaders from diverse disciplines to generate urgency and find solutions to the childhood obesity epidemic.
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Department of Agriculture, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, American Heart Association, American Cancer Society, Partnership for a Healthier America, National Head Start, Nemours, grocery stores, and public relations firms. Areas of specialty include child
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Ms. Fox is past President of the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior and has served on the Institute of Medicine's School Foods, Childhood Obesity Prevention Actions for Local Governments, and Front-of-Pack Labeling committees; Feeding America Nutrition Advisory Board; Hannaford Scientific Advisory Board; Montgomery County School Health Council and PTA, Boys and Girls Club of Culver, United Way of Marshall county, Max's Playhouse Daycare, co-manager, Culver Farmers' Market, and Wellness Consultant, Culver Academies.
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Dr. Gortmaker has been an author and co-author of more than 210 published research articles, including the first report in the United States concerning the obesity epidemic among children, the first longitudinal study linking increases in sugar-sweetened beverage intake to increased obesity incidence in youth, the recent four-paper obesity modeling series in the Lancet, and recent cost-effectiveness papers in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine and Health Affairs.
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Kim Kessler, J.D., is the assistant commissioner for the Bureau of Chronic Disease Prevention and Tobacco Control at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH) , where she leads an interdisciplinary team focused on promoting healthy behaviors and shaping the local environment to facilitate healthy and active living for all New Yorkers.
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She has received research grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the National Institutes of Health to study the federal food programs, school wellness policies, the effect of food marketing on children, and the
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Anna Maria Siega-Riz, Ph.D., is a professor in the departments of public health sciences and obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. She was previously the associate dean for academic affairs and professor in the departments of epidemiology and nutrition at the Gillings School of Global Public Health, the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill where she still holds an appointment. She has focused her research on maternal nutritional status, including maternal obesity and gestational weight gain and their effect on the short- and long-term outcomes of the mother and child.
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Her research interests are in areas of nutrition-related growth and body composition in healthy children and those with chronic disease including obesity, sickle cell disease, osteoporosis, cystic fibrosis, cerebral palsy, Crohn's disease, HIV, and congenital heart disease. She has been extensively involved in pediatric nutrition clinical care and research for more than 25 years.
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She has coordinated and led efforts to require calorie labeling at fast-food and other chain restaurants, require trans fat labeling on packaged foods, improve school foods, reduce junk-food marketing aimed at children, and expand nutrition and physical activity programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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