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CBiographical Sketches ofthe
Subcommittee on Military Weight
Management
RICHARD ATKINSON (Chair) is director of the Obesity Institute of the
MedStar Research Institute in Washington, D.C. Formerly, he was professor of
medicine and nutritional sciences and director of the Beers-Murphy Clinical
Nutrition Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Previously he was a
professor of internal medicine and chief, Division of Clinical Nutrition at the
Eastern Virginia Medical School, and chief of staff for research and develop-
ment, and chief, Medical Research Service at the VA Medical Center in Hamp-
ton, Virginia. Dr. Atkinson also served in the military as division surgeon for the
101st Airborne Division, and chief of the Department of Medicine at the U.S.
Army Hospital, Fort Campbell, Kentucky following a 2-year tour as endocrine
fellow at the Walter Reed Army Hospital. Dr. Atkinson's research has focused
on a variety of interventions (surgical, behavioral, and pharmacological) for the
treatment and prevention of obesity. He is a former member of the Committee
on Military Nutrition Research.
JOHN E. VANDERVEEN (Vice-Chair) is a former director of the Food and
Dru, Administration's (FDA) Office of Plant and Dairy Foods and Beverages in
Washington, D.C. His previous position at FDA was director of the Division of
Nutrition at the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. He also served in
various capacities at the U.S. Air Force (USAF) School of Aerospace Medicine
at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas. He has received accolades for service from
FDA and USAF. Dr. Vanderveen is a member of the American Society for
Clinical Nutrition, American Institute of Nutrition, Aerospace Medical Associa-
tion, American Dairy Science Association, Institute of Food Technologists, and
American Chemical Society. In the past, he was the treasurer of the American
Society of Clinical Nutrition and a member of the Institute of Food Technology,
National Academy of Sciences Advisory Committee. Dr. Vanderveen holds a
B.S. in agriculture from Rutgers University in New Jersey and a Ph.D. in chem-
istry from the University of New Hampshire.
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WILLIAM DIETZ is the director of the Division of Nutrition and Physical
Activity in the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Pro-
motion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Prior to his
appointment at 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. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan
University in 1966 and his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1970.
Following an internship at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, he spent 3 years
in the Middle America Research Unit of the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases in Panama studying insect-borne viruses. After the comple-
tion of his residency at Upstate Medical Center, he received a Ph.D. in nutri-
tional biochemistry Tom Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Dr.
Dietz was a principal research scientist at the MIT/Harvard Division of Health
Science and Technology, associate director of the Clinical Research Center at
MIT, and director of the Boston Obesity/Nutrition Research Center. He served
on the counsel of the American Society for Clinical Nutrition and is a past presi-
dent of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity. In 1995, he
received the John Stalker Award from the American School Food Service Asso-
ciation for his efforts to improve school lunches. Dr. Dietz served on the 1995
Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee and is a past member of the National
Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Task Force on Obesity
and president-elect of the American Society for Clinical Nutrition. In 1998, Dr.
Dietz was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. In
2000, he received the William G. Anderson Award from the American Alliance
for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance. In 2002, he received the
Holroyd-Sherry award for his outstanding contributions to the field of children,
adolescents, and the media.
JOHN D. FERNSTROM is a professor of psychiatry, pharmacology, and
neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and research
director of the UPMC Health System Weight Management Center. He received
his B.S. in biology and his Ph.D. in nutritional biochemistry from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was a postdoctoral fellow in
neuroendocrinology at the Roche Institute for Molecular Biology in Nutley,
New Jersey. Before coming to the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Fernstrom was
an assistant and then associate professor in the Department of Nutrition and
Food Science at MIT. He served on numerous governmental advisory
committees and is a member of several professional societies, including the
American Society for Nutritional Sciences, the American Society for Clinical
Nutrition, The North American Society for the Study of Obesity, the American
Physiological Society, the American Society for Pharmacology and
Experimental Therapeutics, the American Society for Neurochemistry, the
Society for Neuroscience, and the Endocrine Society. Among other awards, Dr.
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Fernstrom received the Mead-Johnson Award of the American Society for
Nutritional Sciences, a Research Scientist Award from the National Institute of
Mental Health, a Wellcome Visiting Professorship in the Basic Medical
Sciences, and an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in Neurochemistry. His current
research interests include the influence of the diet and drugs (particularly
appetite suppressants) on neurotransmitters in the central and peripheral nervous
systems.
ARTHUR FRANK, an internist, is the medical director of the George
Washington University Weight Management Program in Washington, D.C. He
received his B.S. in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
his M.S. in biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania, and his M.D.
from New York University. His residency was completed at the Stanford
Medical Center. He was a U.S. Public Health Service post-doctoral fellow in
endocrinology and metabolism at Stanford and a post-doctoral fellow at the
National Heart Institute. Subsequently, he directed the food and nutrition
programs at the Office of Economic Opportunity and served as an adviser to the
Assistant Secretary for Health at the Department of Health and Human Services.
He has been responsible for the provision and management of medical care of
overweight and obese patients since 1977. He has been the principle investigator
in a number of clinical research trials involving the pharmacotherapy of obesity.
His research interests also involve the development of systems for the
organization and evaluation of weight-management services (he was on the
National Academies committee that wrote the book Weighing the Options) and
the evaluation and measurement of the maintenance of weight loss. Dr. Frank
has been the chairman of the Clinical Committee of the North American
Association for the Study of Obesity (NAASO). In this position he was
responsible for facilitating NAASO's increasing involvement in the scientific
aspects of clinical activities. He has been a member of the Board of Directors
and treasurer of the American Obesity Association since its inception and has
actively participated in litigation related to the protection of the rights of obese
patients who were subjected to discrimination.
BARBARA C. HANSEN is the director of the Obesity and Diabetes Research
Center at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a professor of
physiology. She received her B.S. and M.S. from the University of California,
Los Angeles. She completed a Ph.D. in physiology and psychology at the Uni-
versity of Washington, Seattle. Dr. Hansen is a past president of the North
American Association for the Study of Obesity and served as the first president
of the International Association for the Study of Obesity for four years. She was
president of the American Society for Clinical Nutrition from 1995 to 1996. She
is a member of the Institute of Medicine and has served on its program commit-
tee and in other consulting roles. Dr. Hansen has also served as a member of
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several organizations, including the Advisory Committee to the Director of the
National Institutes of Health, the U.S.-Japan Nutrition and Metabolism Panel,
and the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board of the Department of Defense.
She has published extensively in biomedical journals and lectures widely in the
field of obesity and diabetes. Dr. Hansen is an associate editor of the Journal of
Obesity Research and coeditor of Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews
and has served as associate editor/editorial board roles for Diabetes Care, Inter-
national Journal of Obesity, International Journal of Primatology, and Journal
of Parental and Enteral Nutrition. Dr. Hansen's laboratory is involved in the
study and evaluation of new compounds for the treatment of diabetes, obesity,
and dyslipidemia.
STEVEN B. HEYMSFIELD is a professor of medicine at Columbia Univer-
sity, College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. He also serves as deputy
director of the New York Obesity Research Center and is director of the Human
Body Composition Laboratory. Dr. Heymsfield is immediate past president of
the American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition and is an active mem-
ber of the American Society of Clinical Nutrition and the North American Soci-
ety for the Study of Obesity. He was recently made an honorary member of the
American Dietetic Association. He received his B.A. in chemistry Dom Hunter
College of the City University of New York and his M.D. from Mt. Sinai School
of Medicine. Dr. Heymsf~eld has done extensive research and has clinical ex-
perience in the areas of body composition, weight cycling, nutrition, and obe-
sity, especially as they relate to women.
ROBIN B. KANAREK is dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
and professor of psychology and nutrition at Tubes University in Medford,
Massachusetts. Her prior experience includes research fellow, Division of
Endocrinology, University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine and
research fellow in nutrition at Harvard University. In addition to reviewing for
several journals, including Science, Brain Research Bulletin, Journal of
Nutrition, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and Annals of Internal
Medicine, she is a member of the editorial boards of Physiology and Behavior
and the Tufts Diet and Nutrition Newsletter and is a past editor-in-chief of
Nutrition and Behavior. Dr. Kanarek has served on ad hoc review committees
for the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and U.S.
Department of Agriculture nutrition research, as well as the Member Program
Committee of the Eastern Psychological Association. She is a fellow of the
American College of Nutrition, and her other professional memberships include
the American Society for Nutritional Sciences, New York Academy of Sciences,
Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior, and Society for Neurosciences. Dr.
Kanarek received a B.A. in biology from Antioch College in Yellow Springs,
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Ohio, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in psychology from Rutgers University in New
Brunswick, New Jersey.
BARBARA J. MOORE is president and chief executive officer of Shape Up
America!, a national initiative to promote healthy weight and increased physical
activity in the United States. Committed to providing achievable science-based
messages, Shape Up America! was founded by C. Everett Koop in 1994. Dr.
Moore joined in June 1995 and serves as key liaison with the scientific, profes-
sional, and corporate communities. Dr. Moore earned a B.S. Dom Skidmore
College and an M.S. and Ph.D. in nutrition from Columbia University. She has
several years of postdoctoral training at the University of California at Davis.
Dr. Moore was appointed a Henry Rutgers Fellow at Rutgers University, where
she held a tenure track position in the Department of Nutritional Sciences. After
leaving academia, Dr. Moore served as general manager of program develop-
ment and primary technical policy advisor for Weight Watchers International.
Dr. Moore joined the Executive Office of the President in 1993 as acting assis-
tant for social and behavioral science in the Office of Science and Technology
Policy. She was involved in the process of policy formation and budgetary sup-
port of fundamental scientific research policy. Prior to joining Shape Up Amer-
ica!, Dr. Moore worked at the National Institutes of Health, Division of Nutri-
tion Research Coordination, where she was responsible for providing guidance
on nutrition policy and dietary guidance materials promulgated by the federal
government. In this position, Dr. Moore focused on the development of the 1994
Progress Report to the Assistant Secretary of Health on the nutrition objectives
of Healthy People 2000. She maintains active membership in the American So-
ciety for Nutritional Sciences, American Society for Clinical Nutrition, North
American Association for the Study of Obesity, Society for the Study of Inges-
tive Behavior, and Sigma Xi.
MARY I. POOS (FNB Staff; Study Director) is project director for the Commit-
tee on Military Nutrition Research. She joined the Food and Nutrition Board
(FNB) of the Institute of Medicine in November 1997. She has been a project
director for the National Academies since 1990. Prior to officially joining the
FNB staff, she served as a project director for the National Research Council's
Board on Agriculture for more than seven years, two of which were spent on
loan to FNB. Her work with FNB includes senior staff officer for the IOM re-
port The Program of Research for Military Nursing and study director for the
reports A Review of the Department of Defense's Program for Breast Cancer
Research and Vitamin CFortifcation of Food Aid Commodities. Currently, she
also serves as study director to the Subcommittee on Interpretation and Uses of
Dietary Reference Intakes. While working with the Board on Agriculture, Dr.
Poos was responsible for the Committee on Animal Nutrition and directed the
production of seven reports in the Nutrient Requirements of Domestic Animals
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series, including a letter report to the commissioner of the Food and Drug Ad-
ministration concerning the importance of selenium in animal nutrition. Prior to
joining the National Academies, she was consultant/owner of Nutrition Consult-
ing Services of Greenfield, Massachusetts; assistant professor in the Department
of Veterinary and Animal Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst;
and adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Animal Sciences, Univer-
sity of Vermont. She received her B.S. in biology from Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University and a Ph.D. in animal sciences (nutrition/bio-
chemistry) from the University of Kentucky. She completed a postdoctoral fel-
lowship in the Department of Animal Sciences Area of Excellence Program at
the University of Nebraska.
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