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Appendix C: Speaker, Moderator, and Discussant Biographies
Appendix C: Speaker, Moderator, and Discussant Biographies
Pages 117-132
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Buchanan, Ph.D., is currently Senior Science Advisor and Director of the Office of Science, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition at the Food and Drug Administration.
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Some of her research projects have included examinations of best practices within industry and state governments to manage costs of prescription drugs, international drug price comparisons, food labeling and weight management, medical and public health issues related to mercury, and the impacts of direct to consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals. She has served on many work groups and task forces including the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans drafting committee, Toxics and Risk Subcommittee, Interagency Working Group on Mercury, Interagency Working Group on Dioxin, Katrina Environmental Impacts and Cleanup Workgroup, Women's Health Committee on Breastfeeding, and the President's Council for Food Safety Strategic Planning Task Force.
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. Prior to his appointment to the CDC, he was a professor of pediatrics at the Tufts University School of Medicine, and director of clinical nutrition at the Floating Hospital of New England Medical Center Hospitals.
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Then, Ms. Holden worked as a Research Nutritionist in the Food Composition Laboratory, Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center for 20 years before joining the Nutrient Data Laboratory (NDL)
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The primary responsibility of the NDL is to provide authoritative food composition data on foods available in the United States. The USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (SR)
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Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University and Senior Scientist and Director of the Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging.
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Miller, Ph.D., is currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for Food, Nutrition, and Agriculture Policy in College Park, MD, and was named Professor and Dean Emeritus of The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) in December 2000.
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More recently, he has been named to three additional National Academy of Sciences committees, including the Committee on Agricultural Biotechnology, Health and the Environment of the National Research Council, the Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, and chairs the Dietary Reference Intakes Panel on Macronutrients of the IOM. In June 2000, he became the first recipient of the FDA's Distinguished Alumni Award.
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Currently, she serves on editorial boards for the Journal of Food Composition and Analysis and Nutrition Today and serves as contributing editor for Nutrition Reviews. She is a member of various professional organizations including the American Dietetic Association, the American Society for Nutritional Sciences, the American Public Health Association, the American Society for Clinical Nutrition, the Society for Nutrition Education, the Society for Epidemiological Research, and the Society for International Nutrition Research.
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Dr. Petersen has pioneered the technical methods for incorporating information about dietary practices, actual agricultural practices and commercial food processing technologies into regulatory science issues.
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Russell, M.D., is a professor of medicine and nutrition at Tufts University and director of the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston. He has served on national and international advisory boards including the USDA Human Investigation Committee (Chairman)
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Her research interests include developing, designing, and carrying out nutrition research related to dietary methods, development of dietary instruments, measurement error, dietary surveillance, and nutritional epidemiology.
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Christine Lewis Taylor, Ph.D., is a scholar at the IOM where she is now working on issues related to Dietary Reference Intakes. She came to IOM in 2006 with a wealth of experience in nutrition science and policy, having served for more than 20 years in the US government, most recently as Director of FDA's Office of Nutritional Products, Labeling and Dietary Supplements.
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Her extensive government experience includes service as USDA undersecretary for food safety and USDA deputy undersecretary for research, education, and economics, as well as leadership positions in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President and the National Center for Health Statistics in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is a member of professional associations for nutrition, dietetics, public health, food technology, and nutrition education.
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in biology and chemistry from Mary Washington College and M.S. and PhD in human nutrition from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
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