Legal Strategies in Childhood Obesity Prevention Workshop Summary (2011) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix B: Speaker Biosketches
Appendix B: Speaker Biosketches
Pages 83-94
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Ms. Ashe directs the National Policy and Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity, which is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as part of its $500 million commitment to reversing the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.
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William H Dietz, M.D., Ph.D., is director of the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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His efforts have focused on researching tobacco litigation as a public health strategy as director of the Tobacco Products Liability Project; reducing the harm caused by secondhand tobacco smoke through a variety of legal and policy approaches; fostering scholarship using tobacco industry documents; and, more recently, examining legal and policy approaches to addressing obesity. Recently, Mr.
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James Krieger, M.D., M.P.H., is chief of the Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention Section at the Seattle-King County Public Health Department and clinical professor of medicine and health services and attending physician at the University of Washington. His current public health work focuses on interventions to reduce health disparities in obesity, diabetes, asthma, tobacco, healthy eating, and active living by addressing social and physical environmental determinants of health.
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She is currently chair of the IOM Standing Committee on Childhood Obesity Prevention. She received a B.A.
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from Harvard Law School. Sara Benjamin Neelon, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D., is assistant professor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Duke University Medical Center and the Duke Global Health Institute.
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She has extensive experience as an applied microeconomist in the empirical analysis of the effects of public policy on a series of behavioral outcomes. As principal investigator on a number of NIH-funded projects and as a member of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation–funded ImpacTeen research team, she focuses much of her current research on assessing the importance of economic and environmental factors (such as food prices and taxes; access to food stores, eating places, and facilities for physical activity; and television food advertising exposure)
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. Her professional activities include participation in Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committees; the IOM Food and Nutrition Board; and committees for the National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
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In October 2009, at its 196th annual meeting, the Vermont Medical Society recognized General Sorrell as its "Citizen of the Year" for 2009. He has served as chair of the NAAG Mission Foundation Board, as chair of the board of the American Legacy Foundation, on Vermont's Judicial Nominating Board, as president of United Cerebral Palsy of Vermont, as secretary of the Vermont Coalition of the Handicapped, and on the board of the Winooski Valley Park District.
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She is director of the National Program Office for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Healthy Eating Research program. She is currently on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, the Journal of Adolescent Health, and Nutrition Today.
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He has led efforts in the planning and implementation of health care financing reform and in tobacco- and obesity-related health promotion and disease prevention programs in Arkansas, including documenting the state's success in halting the progress of the childhood obesity epidemic. He helped implement ARHealthNet, Arkansas's health insurance waiver for low-income workers.
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Mr. Vladeck is a graduate of New York University and Columbia Law School.
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