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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers, Moderators, and Planning Committee Members
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers, Moderators, and Planning Committee Members
Pages 91-106
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His research focuses on gastrointestinal physiology, utilizing a combination of genetics, physiology, pharmacology, proteomics, metabolomics, and gastrointestinal and brain imaging to understand food intake regulation and to modulate these factors for the treatment of obesity. He is principal investigator and coinvestigator on research funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
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Guruduth Banavar, Ph.D., M.B.A., M.S., is chief technology officer and leads the development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems at Viome, a company that offers unprecedented visibility into the human biological ecosystem and delivers personalized food and supplement recommendations to deter chronic disease.
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Ongoing research involves human and mechanistic studies to elucidate how markers of cardiometabolic health can be modulated following acute and chronic intakes of different fatty acids, as well as studies to investigate the influence of the food matrix on macro- and micronutrient release from different plant-based foods and subsequent effects on postprandial measures.
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in experimental psychology from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. in health psychology at University College London, and she completed postdoctoral training at Columbia University.
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She works to address key public health issues by integrating behavioral science, network science, and systems science, focusing on family and community social networks and the environments in which people live, to promote healthy eating and food security and to prevent diet-related diseases and health disparities. Her research also explores the role of social networks in how
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Mr. Hahn has handled almost every issue impacting the food industry and has developed a comprehensive understanding of the laws affecting the labeling and advertising of foods, dietary supplements, infant formulas, medical foods, foods for special dietary use,
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in history from Harvard University. Michael Howell, M.D., M.P.H., is chief clinical officer and deputy chief health officer at Google, where he focuses on how technology can help improve health and health care.
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Jim Kaput, Ph.D., is cofounder and chief scientific officer of Vydiant, which is developing a comprehensive knowledge base of factors affecting health and disease, using digital health tools to deliver personalized recommendations to individuals. He has been developing strategies and methods to target nutrition for improving personal and public health for his entire career.
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in computer science from New York University and was a computing innovation fellow at Columbia University in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. Katie Koecher, Ph.D., is associate expert nutrition scientist at General Mills Bell Institute of Health and Nutrition, where she leads the nutrition research strategic plan and pipeline development and conducts research on carbohydrates and health, weight management, diabetes, and, more recently, personalized nutrition.
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from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. John Mathers, Ph.D., is professor of human nutrition, director of the Human Nutrition Research Centre, and director of the Centre for Healthier Lives in Newcastle University in the United Kingdom.
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Ney, Ph.D., R.D.N., is professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she served as department chair and director of the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Nutritional Sciences. For more than 25 years, she has conducted research on how nutrition impacts gastrointestinal physiology and rare genetic diseases, focusing on the neuroendocrine regulation of intestinal adaptation and phenylketonuria (PKU)
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under joint supervision of Eran Segal from the Weizmann Institute of Science and Shira Zelber-Sagi from the University of Haifa. She is a registered dietitian, specializing in dietary interventions and modifications, and leads studies observing the effect of personally tailored diets by predictions of glycemic responses aimed to improve glycemic status and other metabolic parameters in various populations (such as healthy individuals, subjects with glucose intolerance, and breast cancer survivors)
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Between 1999 and 2000, he took a leave of absence from Case Western Reserve University to conduct research as vice president of statistical genomics at the French biotechnology company Genset, where he helped guide efforts to construct the first high-density map of genetic variation in the human genome. He has published more than 550 articles in many areas of biomedical and translation science, as well as areas of integrated nutrigenomics and the design of personalized nutritional trials.
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Stover, Ph.D., is vice chancellor and dean for agriculture and life sciences at Texas A&M AgriLife, and director of Texas A&M AgriLife Research. As vice chancellor, he oversees coordination and collaboration of the agriculture, academic, and research programs across the Texas A&M University System, as well as four state agencies: Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory, and Texas A&M Forest Service.
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The Nutrition Research Institute focuses on using genetic, epigenetic, and metabolomic methods to discover why there is individual variation in responses to and requirements for nutrients. The UNC Nutrition Obesity Research Center is one of 12 centers of excellence in nutrition research funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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