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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Planning Committee Members
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Planning Committee Members
Pages 163-180
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He is also codirector of the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Weight Management Center, directing medical weight management programs.
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Blanck, Ph.D., M.S., is a U.S. Public Health Service officer and chief of the Obesity Branch in the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity in the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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Carol Byrd-Bredbenner, Ph.D., R.D., is distinguished professor of nutrition and director of the Nutritional Sciences Graduate Program at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on elucidating the role of cognitive and environmental factors on nutrition behaviors and health outcomes, and developing recommendations for nutrition communications and health promotion interventions.
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. His main areas of research include the epidemiology of physical activity in the prevention of chronic diseases and research on minority health issues.
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Joseph E Donnelly, Ed.D., is professor of medicine in and director of the Division of Physical Activity and Weight Management at the University of Kansas.
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from the University of Michigan Law School. Kimberly Gudzune, M.D., M.P.H., F.T.O.S., is medical director of the American Board of Obesity Medicine and of the Healthful Eating, Activity & Weight Program at Johns Hopkins Medicine, which offers comprehensive services to support weight loss and manage chronic disease.
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They authored Community Based System Dynamics, led the creation of Scriptapedia (a knowledge commons of group model building scripts) , and cofounded/coled the System Dynamics Society's Diversity Committee and Structural Racism Special Interest Group, and they currently serve as associate editor for System Dynamics Review.
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Dr. Lee's previous positions include associate professor of international health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, executive director of the Global Obesity Prevention Center, director of operations research at the International Vaccine Access Center, associate professor at
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His interests include the examination of long-term trends in U.S. morbidity; chronic diseases; and mortality rates, including the health consequences of the U.S.
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Department of Health and Human Services' Physical Activity Guidelines Midcourse Report, coordinating the communications strategy and report launch in 2013. She is a registered dietitian and holds a bachelor's degree in food marketing from Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a dual master's degree in exercise physiology and nutrition from San Diego State University.
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He received the Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Research and Extension Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Science and Public Policy in 2019, the Early Career Award from the Public Health Education and Health Promotion Section of the American Public Health Association in 2016, and the Lewis Donohew Outstanding Scholar in Health Communication Award from the Kentucky Conference on Health Communication in 2014. He serves on the editorial boards for nine journals in communication and public health.
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With colleagues, Dr. O'Connor has developed a number of successful strategies for improving chronic disease care in primary care settings; has coauthored the Americans with Disabilities Act Standards of Diabetes Care for 5 years; has published more than 250 peer-reviewed articles; and has served on the editorial boards of several journals, including Annals of Family Medicine and Diabetes Care.
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and a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, where she is also founding director of the Institute for Health Promotion Research and associate director of cancer prevention and health disparities at the Cancer Therapy & Research Center. She conducts communications research and behavioral interventions for reducing cancer and chronic disease, increasing screening rates and clinical trial accrual, and improving healthy lifestyles among U.S.
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Sarwer, Ph.D., is associate dean for research and director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University College of Public Health, where he is also professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences. His research is focused on the etiology and treatment of obesity, focusing on the psychosocial and behavioral aspects of extreme obesity and bariatric surgery.
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He is founding editor-in-chief of Obesity Science and Practice, and he serves as associate editor for both Health Psychology and Obesity Surgery, as consulting editor for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and on the editorial boards of several other journals. In 2020, he was coeditor of a special issue of the American Psychologist dedicated to obesity.
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Thorpe Jr., Ph.D., M.S., is professor in the Department of Health, Behavior, and Society in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHBSPH) ; founding director of the Program of Men's Health Research in and deputy director of the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions; and codirector of the Johns Hopkins Alzheimer's Disease Resource Center for Minority Aging Research.
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She has served on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Archives of Family Medicine, and Eating Behaviors.
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