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Appendix A: Committee Member Biographies
Appendix A: Committee Member Biographies
Pages 109-116
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Project. She has served as the elected President of the International Society for Research on Human Milk and Lactation and the American Society for Nutritional Sciences and has received career achievement awards for her research in pregnancy and in lactation, as well as her contributions in education, mentoring, and public service in nutrition.
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Currently, her research program encompasses randomized clinical trials and epidemiological investigations of the environmental (nutrition) , genetic, and biochemical factors during fetal, neonatal, and early childhood life that play a role in defining the offspring phenotype and that act as determinants of risk for noncommunicable diseases including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, neurocognitive functioning, and osteoporosis.
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Field uses in vitro and in vivo model systems to understand the contributions of folate and vitamin B12 nutrition to supporting mitochondrial DNA precursor synthesis, with a focus on understanding how folate nutrition affects mitochondrial DNA integrity and the pathogenesis of metabolic diseases such as mitochondrial DNA depletion syndromes, chronic disease, and age-related decline in mitochondrial function. Recently, her research has also focused on the metabolism of erythritol, which is a product of the pentose phosphate pathway and which has emerged as a predictive biomarker of cardiometabolic disease onset.
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Dr. Lee has written extensively for the general media as a senior contributor for Forbes and for a number of other media outlets including The New York Times, TIME, The Guardian, the HuffPost, STAT, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Technology Review. His publication on a systems approach to obesity was cited by the U.S.
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Emily Oken, M.D., M.P.H., is the Alice Hamilton Professor and the ViceChair in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, and a professor in the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Throughout his career, Dr. Ordovás has received multiple honors for his scientific achievements including the Secretary's Award from USDA, the Centrum; the David Kritchevsky career achievement and Dannon Institute Mentorship awards from the American Society for Nutrition; the Gold Medal from the Spanish Society of Cardiology; and the Francisco Grande Award from the Mediterranean Diet Foundation.
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Preventive Services Task Force, he has been a consultant to the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, the European League Against Rheumatism, the Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement, the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, and others. In 2010, he organized and spoke at the National Institutes of Health workshop Economic Analysis of Nutrition Interventions: Methods, Research and Policy, sponsored by the Office of Dietary Supplements and co-sponsored by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, the National Cancer Institute, and the National Institute of Nursing Research.
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