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Appendix B: Speaker and Moderator Biographical Sketches
Pages 119-132

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From page 119...
... as a member and Chair of the Subcommittee on Interpretation and Uses of DRIs, and subsequently served on the Committee on Development of Guiding Principles for the Inclusion of Chronic Disease Endpoints in Future Dietary Reference Intakes. She has also been a member of a number of Health Canada committees.
From page 120...
... Her research focus includes nutritional and metabolic regulation of gene expression, especially as relating to human development, the placenta, and exocrine pancreas. She was a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Committee on Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamin D and Calcium, and she is currently a member of the National Academies' Food and Nutrition Board.
From page 121...
... Since joining ECRI, she has worked as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on clinical practice guidelines for the Department of Veterans Affairs/Department of Defense, the American College of Rheumatology, and an EPC report supporting upcoming guidelines from the National Institutes of Health's National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Before her work at ECRI Institute, Dr.
From page 122...
... She is a member of the Mitochondrial Medicine Society, Society for Pediatric Research, Society for Inherited Metabolic Disease, American Society of Human Genetics, and American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics, and is an elected member of the University of Pennsylvania John Morgan Society, Interurban Clinical Club, and American Society of Clinical Investigators.
From page 123...
... He has significant research and clinical interest in nutritional and metabolic aspects of acute and chronic disease states. As a clinical investigator focused on mechanisms of disease and patient-related outcomes, he is the Principal Investigator of a number of ongoing studies aimed at improving the outcomes and quality of life in patient populations ranging from early kidney disease to patients on maintenance dialysis and patients with acute kidney injury.
From page 124...
... P He is also a member of many organizations and societies, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Academic Pediatric Association, the American Pediatric Society, and the Society for Pediatric Research. He directs the Condition Review Workgroup for the Secretary of Health and Human Services' Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children, which makes evidence-based recommendations about conditions that should be recommended for inclusion in State newborn screening panels.
From page 125...
... She was the Project Co-Director for the expert panel and workshop "Options for Addressing Consideration of Chronic Disease Endpoints for Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) ." Erin MacLeod, Ph.D., is Director of Metabolic Nutrition in the Division of Genetics and Metabolism at the Children's National Health System in Washington, DC.
From page 126...
... Former positions include founding Director of the Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health (NIH) ; Associate Director, the National Academies' Food and Nutrition Board; Vice President, Research Triangle Institute International; and Research Vice Provost and Graduate Dean, Northern Arizona University.
From page 127...
... Morris's research endeavors have focused on nutritional interventions based on specific metabolic pathways that cross disease disciplines, identifying alterations in the arginine metabolome in SCD, thalassemia, asthma, and pulmonary hypertension. She also published the first randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled trial of arginine therapy to treat pain in children with SCD.
From page 128...
... She has been Associate Editor for the Journal of Nutrition and on several editorial boards, including Nutrition Reviews, Journal of Nutrition, and Journal of Food Science. Her professional honors include Fellow of the American Society of Nutrition, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Carl Fellers Award from the Institute of Food Technologists, the FDA Commissioner's Special Citation and the Harvey W
From page 129...
... in cell and molecular biology from the University of Vermont. He has more than 15 years of experience developing animal models of human disease to validate nutritional countermeasures.
From page 130...
... Dr. Stallings has served on several National Academies committees, including the Committee on Food Allergies: Global Burden, Causes, Treatment, Prevention, and Public Policy; the Committee on Nutrition Standards for National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs; the Committee on Nutrition Services for Medicare Beneficiaries; the Committee on the Scientific Basis for Dietary Risk Eligibility Criteria for WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children)
From page 131...
... Venditti, M.D., Ph.D., is Head of the Organic Acid Research Section and Senior Investigator of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
From page 132...
... Wu's laboratory focuses primarily on multidisciplinary team research in the gut microbiome to translate basic research at the wet bench into the clinical setting.


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