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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Speakers and Planning Committee Members
Pages 111-124

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From page 111...
... Anater was a National Institutes of Health–National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute predoctoral fellow and a Center for a Livable Future predoctoral fellow at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she investigated coping strategies used by food-insecure individuals and the associated mediating influences and modifying mechanisms, and performed nutrition-related policy research at the Rutgers University Department of Nutritional Sciences and at Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. Among her accomplishments, Dr.
From page 112...
... Dr. Anderson's research is focused on nutrition and chronic disease prevention with a goal of equitably improving human health, including the development of nutrition policy strategies for the prevention of cardiovascular disease, chronic kidney disease, and dietrelated cancers, and the promotion of healthy behavior and the elimination of health disparities by personal and environmental factors.
From page 113...
... Traci Bekelman, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a research assistant professor f­ellow in the Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes (LEAD) C ­ enter and the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
From page 114...
... for the coordinating centers for five multisite clinical trials and four prospective cohort studies funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
From page 115...
... He has been an active participant and leader in many national investigative com mittees and study sections, including the American Academy of P ­ ediatrics' Committee on Nutrition, the American Heart Association's (AHA's) Coun cil for Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, and the International Pediatric Hypertension Association's Executive Board, which he recently chaired.
From page 116...
... Her research has contributed new knowledge on the relationship of perinatal risk factors for maternal obesity and associated racial disparities, and related adverse health outcomes, such as gestational diabetes and peripartum cardiomyopathy. She has served on prior National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committees, including Implementation and Dissemination of 2009 Pregnancy Weight Gain Guidelines; Understanding the Dynamic Relationship Between Biology, Environment, and Early Childhood Development on Risk of Obesity; and Strategies to Limit Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption in Young Children.
From page 117...
... Her early career experience involved provision of clinical medical nutrition therapy (registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator) to pregnant women in Los Angeles County public health settings and in California's Sweet Success, Diabetes and Pregnancy Program and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children.
From page 118...
... ; the chair of the Biometrics Section and the chair-elect of the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science of the American Statistical Association; the executive secretary of the International Society for ­Bayesian Analysis; and on the Executive Board of the International Biometric S­ ociety.
From page 119...
... , served as the chair of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, as a member of the National Academies Roundtable on Data Science Postsecondary Education, and was a member of the National Academies Data Science for Undergraduates consensus study.
From page 120...
... Dr. Morisset's research program aims to optimize nutrition during pregnancy in order to promote adequate gestational weight gain, decrease pregnancy complications, and reinforce current nutritional recommendations for both normal and at-risk pregnancies.
From page 121...
... in epidemiology from the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Katherine Sauder, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of pediatric nutrition at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the assistant director for translation research at the Lifecourse Epidemiology of Adiposity and Diabetes Center.
From page 122...
... Dr. Siega-Riz's research focuses on the first 1,000 days of life by understanding the influence of maternal weight status and dietary patterns and behaviors in the etiology of adverse pregnancy outcomes, including, but not limited to, gestational diabetes, pregnancy-induced hypertension, preeclampsia, preterm birth, and inadequate or excessive gestational weight gain.
From page 123...
... She is a clinical nutrition epidemiologist whose research focuses on the primary prevention of cardio­ metabolic and other chronic diseases beginning in utero and continuing throughout the life course. Her research involvement included the study of Cardiovascular Risk Development in Young Adults, the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial, and the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (SOL)
From page 124...
... Dr. Widen leads a nutritional phenotyping pregnancy cohort study, Mother Infant NutriTion Study and is the co-principal investigator of Mothers And careGivers Investing in ­Children, a mother–caregiver–infant feeding intervention program among low-income Hispanic families that focuses on healthy eating during infancy and responsive caregiving.


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