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Appendix D: Speaker and Facilitator Biographies
Appendix D: Speaker and Facilitator Biographies
Pages 81-98
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CAPT Blanck has more than 18 years of CDC experience and has authored more than 120 papers and reports in the areas of nutrition, physical activity, obesity, and environmental exposures. She helped steer the creation of Healthy People 2020 objectives for healthier nutrition options and led the creation of the CDC's Childhood Obesity Research Demonstrations.
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Lt Col Clark was chief of medical nutrition therapy at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, where she guided clinical nutrition practice and patient feeding and oversaw a staff of Army, USAF, and Navy nutrition professionals. At Wilford Hall Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, she provided in- and outpatient medical nutrition
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Her first deployment was in 2005 as the first USAF company grade officer dietitian to Balad Air Base, Iraq, where she was the registered dietitian providing care to injured service members and local nationals. Her second deployment was to Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, where she was a diagnostics and therapeutics flight commander, overseeing elements of pharmacy, radiology, laboratory, and nutritional medicine and serving as the sole registered dietitian.
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As a military health care officer with more than 30 years of military experience, she understands the population and the programs/policies associated with helping the armed forces maintain operational readiness. She has been a principal or associate investigator on 17 studies, most of which have focused on weight management and the comorbidities associated with obesity.
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for his advocacy of "dual use" research that has helped advance research for soldiers as well as serve the needs of neurodegenerative disease patients. He has also received a Founder's Award from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, the Diabetes Research Leadership Award from the Diabetes Technology Society, the Society of Armed Forces Medical Laboratory Scientists Outstanding Research and Development Scientist Award, the French National Order of Merit (Chevalier)
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Harward, M.S., R.D., is deputy chief, Air Force health promotion, with the Air Force Medical Support Agency located at the Defense Health Headquarters in Falls Church, Virginia. She supports the surgeon general of the Air Force in advancing Air Force health promotion policies, with a particular focus on tobacco cessation, physical activity, nutrition, and sleep health.
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work groups, including the DoD Injury Surveillance and Prevention Work Group, the Armed Forces Epidemiologic Board Injury Prevention Work Group, and the Military Training Task Force. Under Dr.
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Air Force. Lt Col Lindberg's assignments included clinical dietitian at Wilford Hall, L ackland Air Force Base, Texas; chief clinical dietitian at Clark Air Base, Republic of the Philippines; research dietitian, Armstrong Lab, Brooks Air Force Base, Texas; health promotion manager, Davis-Monthan, Arizona, and Ramstein Air Base Germany; chief biotechnology, Air Force Research Lab, Wright-Patterson, Ohio; and chief food service operations, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.
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In 1998, CAPT McCafferty affiliated with the Navy Reserves and was attached to Operational Health Support Unit Portsmouth, Detachment Groton, Connecticut. In 2003, she was recalled to active duty and assigned to Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Virginia, as special project manager on cost analysis for Navy dietitians.
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She served as assistant to the deputy of the Navy Medicine East Region as special project officer and as interim deputy, East Region, May through July 2014. CAPT McCafferty served as executive officer, Operational Health Support Unit, Jacksonville, Florida, from 2013 to 2015, and as senior Medical Service Corps officer and director for administration, Expeditionary Medical Facility (EMF)
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Her experience includes working as a research dietitian for the National Institutes of Health; as program manager for the National Kidney Foundation; and as an independent consultant on nutrition research and educational programs to Georgetown University, Kaiser Permanente, the Academy for Educational Development, and corporate wellness entities. Her commitment to integrative and novel nutrition programming led her to work at Walter Reed's National Intrepid Center of Excellence, where she developed a holistic nutrition assessment and program for military service members being treated for posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic
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Department of Defense fellowship within the Obesity Branch at the CDC with a focus on public health and healthy eating environments. She has more than 13 years of experience as a registered dietitian, including positions as a clinical/oncology dietitian, critical care burn dietitian, director of the Nutrition Care Division at two separate Army community hospitals, and executive fellow to the Army Medical Specialist Corps chief, as well as a 15-month deployment to Iraq.
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, and the Standing Committee on Childhood Obesity Prevention (member)
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She holds a registered dietitian nutritionist and certified specialist in sports dietetics certification from the Commission on Dietetic Registration, and a certified strength and conditioning specialist certification from the National Strength and Conditioning Association. Her military education includes the Army Medical Department Officer Basic Course, Combat Life Savers Course, Joint Field Nutrition Operations Course, Supervisor Development Course, Army Medical Department Captain's Career Course, Instructor Training Course, Small Group Instructor Training Course, Cadre Training Course, Joint Advanced Nutrition & Dietetics Course, and Foundations of Training Developer Course.
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Air Force) , registered dietitian, certified health education specialist, health promotion director, and tobacco treatment specialist; an instructor at the University of West Florida, School of Professional Studies, College of Public Health, teaching upper-level nursing school curriculum courses, functional and cellular-level nutrition, and disease prevention; and a guest speaker/presenter both within the continental United States and abroad (Italy, Japan, and Spain)
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In the VA, she has been a clinical dietitian, a health promotion and disease prevention program manager, and deputy national director for nutrition and food services. She graduated from Michigan State University with dual degrees in nutritional sciences and dietetics, with a specialization in health promotion and disease prevention.
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He then traveled to Reno, Nevada, where he completed a medical internship and became fully accredited as a registered dietitian.
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