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Appendix B
Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
BARBARA L. DEVANEY, Ph.D., is an economist and senior fellow at Mathematica Policy
Research, Inc. (Princeton, NJ). Dr. Devaney's expertise is in the areas of food assistance and
child health programs and the nutrition policies that affect these programs. She has over 20 years
of experience in designing and conducting program evaluations and has conducted numerous
studies of the WIC Program, the Food Stamp Program, and school nutrition programs. She was
the project director for the Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study (FITS) for the Gerber Products
Company in which data on food and nutrient intakes of infants and toddlers were collected and
analyzed (2001-2003). In addition, Dr. Devaney conducted analyses of the effects of WIC
participation on infant mortality and very low birth-weight among Medicaid newborns, and has
investigated the infant feeding practices, and health care utilization of infant WIC participants.
Dr. Devaney has served on several Institute of Medicine panels including the Subcommittee on
Interpretation and Uses of Dietary Reference Intakes and the Committee on Scientific Evaluation
of the WIC Nutrition Risk Criteria. Dr. Devaney earned a B.A. degree in economics from Mount
Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA) and a Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of
Michigan.
GEORGE M. GRAY, Ph.D., is lecturer on risk analysis in the Department of Health Policy
and Management in the School of Public Health at Harvard University. Dr Gray is also
Executive Director of the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis. His primary research interests are
risk characterization and risk communication (with an emphasis on agriculture, food safety, and
chemicals in the environment). Other interests include the scientific basis of human health risk
assessment, application of risk assessment to policy decisions, and risk/risk tradeoffs in risk
management. Dr. Gray receives research support from numerous sources, including the National
Food Processors Association Research Foundation. Dr. Gray has served on various panels
including the Risk Assessment Task Force of the Society of Toxicology, the Food Advisory
Committee of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) at FDA, and the
National Advisory Environmental Health Science Council of NIEHS. Dr. Gray earned a B.S.
degree from the University of Michigan and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of
Rochester.
GAIL G. HARRISON, Ph.D., is professor and vice-chair in the Department of Community
Health Sciences at the School of Public Health of the University of California-Los Angeles
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(UCLA). Dr. Harrison is also Senior Research Scientist in the UCLA Center for Health Policy
Research and associate director of the Program for Healthy and At-Risk Populations in the
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, UCLA/Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr.
Harrison's interests include pediatric and maternal nutrition; dietary and nutritional status
assessment; food security; and international health and nutrition. Her recent research interests
include assessment of variation in dietary intake patterns, cancer-protective interventions,
estimation of dietary content of isoflavones, and changes in diet and prevalence of chronic
diseases in developing countries. Dr. Harrison has been a member of the Food and Nutrition
Board and has served on several Institute of Medicine panels including the Committee on
Implications of Dioxin in the Food Supply, the Committee on Scientific Evaluation of WIC
Nutrition Risk Criteria, the Committee on Food Consumption Patterns, and the Committee on
International Nutrition Programs. She has served as a technical consultant to the WIC program of
the Public Health Foundation of Los Angeles and to USDA's Agricultural Research Service and
Economic Research Service. Dr. Harrison earned a B.S. degree in foods and nutrition from the
University of California-Santa Barbara, an M.N.S. (nutritional sciences) degree from Cornell
University, and a Ph.D. degree in biological anthropology at the University of Arizona. She was
elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2003.
HELEN H. JENSEN, Ph.D., is professor in the Department of Economics in the College of
Agriculture at Iowa State University (ISU). Dr. Jensen is also head of the Food and Nutrition
Policy Division in the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at ISU. Her
research focuses on nutrition policies, food assistance programs, food security issues, analysis of
food demand, food hazard control options, food safety (with emphasis on the economics of food
safety), and health economics. Dr. Jensen's current research includes participation in an
evaluation of the nutrition education component of the WIC Program; her part in this competitive
grant to the Iowa Department of Public Health from the Food and Nutrition Service of the USDA
is analysis of the cost-effectiveness of the nutrition education intervention. Dr. Jensen has served
on several National Research Council panels including the Committee on Assessing the Nation's
Framework for Addressing Animal Diseases (where she is currently serving), the Committee on
Biological Threats to Agricultural Plants and Animals, and the Panel on Animal Health and
Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Jensen earned a B.A. degree in economics from Carleton College
(Northfield, MN), an M.S. degree in agricultural and applied economics from the University of
Minnesota, and a Ph.D. degree in agricultural economics from the University of Wisconsin-
Madison.
LUCIA L. KAISER, Ph.D., R.D., is Cooperative Extension Specialist in the Department of
Nutrition in the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at the University of
California--Davis. Dr. Kaiser's research interests include the impact of acculturation and food
security on the child-parent feeding relationship among Latinos and evaluation of nutrition
education. She served in WIC programs in California for 6 years as supervising public health
nutritionist and regional nutrition consultant. Dr. Kaiser currently administers a USDA/
Economic Research Service Small Grants Program to examine the impact of food assistance on
nutrition. Dr. Kaiser earned a B.S. degree in biology from the College of William and Mary, and
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in nutrition from the University of California--Davis.
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JEAN D. KINSEY, Ph.D., is professor of consumption economics in the Department of
Applied Economics in the College of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences at the
University of Minnesota. Dr. Kinsey is also the Co-Director of The Food Industry Center that
focuses on how various retailers in the food industry serve consumers and how retailers and
suppliers interact in food distribution channels. The Food Industry Center at the University of
Minnesota is one of 13 industry study centers funded by the non-profit Sloan Foundation. Dr.
Kinsey's research interests include food consumption trends, consumer buying behavior, food
safety and consumer confidence, demographic changes in households, food industry structure,
trends in food distribution and retail sales, effects of electronic technology on efficiency in retail
outlets, economic effects of health and safety regulations, and regulation in the food industry. Dr.
Kinsey earned a B.A. degree in home economics from St. Olaf College (Northfield, MN) and
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California--Davis in consumer economics and
agricultural economics, respectively. Dr. Kinsey was appointed a resident fellow at the National
Center for Food and Agricultural Policy, Resources for the Future (1986-1987, Washington,
DC); a distinguished fellow of the American Council on Consumer Interests (1997); and a fellow
of the American Agricultural Economics Association (2000).
SUZANNE P. MURPHY, Ph.D., R.D., is a research professor at the Cancer Research Center of
Hawaii at the University of Hawaii (Honolulu, HI) and director of the Nutrition Support Shared
Resource at the center. Dr. Murphy's research interests include dietary assessment methodology,
development of food composition databases (with emphasis on inclusion of ethnic foods),
communication of nutrition principles (with emphasis on multi-cultural populations), and
nutritional epidemiology of chronic diseases (with emphasis on cancer and obesity). She has
served as a member of the National Nutrition Monitoring Advisory Council and as vice-chair of
the 2000 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. Dr. Murphy has served on several Institute of
Medicine panels including the Subcommittee on Interpretation and Uses of Dietary Reference
Intakes, which she chaired for two years; the Subcommittee on Upper Safe Reference Levels of
Nutrients, and the Panel on Calcium and Related Nutrients. Dr. Murphy earned a B.S. degree in
mathematics from Temple University, Philadelphia, an M.S. degree in molecular biology from
San Francisco State University, and a Ph.D. degree in nutrition from the University of
California-Berkeley.
ANGELA M. ODOMS-YOUNG, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of Public and Community
Health in the School of Allied Health Professions of the College of Health and Human Sciences
at Northern Illinois University (Dekalb, IL). Prior to her current position, Dr. Odoms-Young
completed a Family Research Consortium Postdoctoral Fellowship focused on understanding
family processes in diverse populations at the Pennsylvania State University and University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Community Health Scholars Fellowship in community-
based research at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Her research and teaching
focus on race, poverty, and health; community-based participatory research; obesity prevention
and management; religion and health (with emphasis on health issues impacting Muslim
women); minority health (with emphasis on health disparities in minority populations and health
perceptions among low-income families); health promotion (with emphasis on the lay health
advisor model); and health education (with emphasis on communicating nutrition principles to
minority families). Dr. Odoms-Young's research experience included participation in Welfare,
Children and Families: A Three-City Ethnographic Study where she was interested in the
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influence of poverty on the nutrition and health beliefs of low-income women with young
children. Dr. Odoms-Young earned a B.S. degree in foods and nutrition from the University of
Illinois-Urbana/Champaign and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Cornell University in human
nutrition and community nutrition, respectively.
KAREN E. PETERSON, Sc.D., R.D., is Associate Professor and Director of Public Health
Nutrition in the Department of Nutrition with a joint appointment in the Department of Society,
Human Development and Health in the School of Public Health at Harvard University. Her
research focuses on biosocial and environmental determinants of body size and growth during
critical periods of behavioral and biologic adaptation; and the application of these principles to
the design and evaluation of surveillance systems and of community-based interventions
addressing overweight and undernutrition among low-income, multi-ethnic populations in the
U.S. and Latin America. Dr. Peterson served for seven years in the Massachusetts WIC Program
as a nutritionist and as a program director. Her current research includes examination of dietary
behaviors on weight statue of children and new mothers enrolled in WIC. Dr. Peterson earned a
B.S. degree in foods and nutrition from the University of Utah, completed her dietetics internship
at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, MA, and received a D.Sc. degree in nutrition from the
School of Public Health at Harvard University. She chaired the CDC-funded "Building
Comprehensive Obesity Surveillance" national workgroup and is currently President of the
Maternal and Child Health Council of the Association of Schools of Public Health and President
of the Graduate Faculties of Public Health Nutrition.
ANNA MARIA SIEGA-RIZ, Ph.D., R.D., is associate professor in the Department of
Maternal and Child Health and the Department of Nutrition in the School of Public Health at the
University of North Carolina (UNC)--Chapel Hill. Dr. Siega-Riz is a fellow at the Carolina
Population Center and director of the Nutrition Epidemiology Core for the Clinical Nutrition
Research Center in the Department of Nutrition also at UNC--Chapel Hill. Her research focuses
on reproductive and minority health (with emphasis on maternal nutritional status and how it
affects birth outcomes). Dr. Siega-Riz expertise includes maternal and early childhood health,
maternal nutrition (with emphasis on iron, zinc, folate, and vitamin C), reproductive
epidemiology, and effects of participation in the WIC Program. She approaches her research
from a multidisciplinary team perspective as an effective way to address complex problems such
as pre-maturity, fetal programming, and racial disparities in reproductive outcomes. Dr. Siega-
Riz earned a B.S.P.H. degree in nutrition from the School of Public Health at the UNC--Chapel
Hill; an M.S. degree in food, nutrition, and food service management from UNC--Greensboro;
and a Ph.D. degree in nutrition and epidemiology from the School of Public Health at UNC--
Chapel Hill. She received the Mary C. Egan Award (2000; from the American Public Health
Association-Food and Nutrition Section) which recognizes professional contributions and
outstanding services of public health nutritionists.
VIRGINIA A. STALLINGS, M.D., is the Jean A. Cortner Endowed Chair in Pediatric
Gastroenterology, director of the Nutrition Center, and deputy director of the Joseph Stokes Jr.
Research Institute at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Stallings is also professor of
pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Her research interests include
pediatric nutrition, nutrition science (with emphasis on evaluation of dietary intake and energy
expenditure), and chronic disease (with emphasis on nutrition-related issues of children and
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adolescents with chronic illnesses). Dr. Stallings is on the board of the Dannon Institute and
serves as a consultant on pediatric nutrition and educational issues to the Bristol-Myers/ Squibb
Foundation and Mead-Johnson Nutritionals. Dr. Stallings has served on several Institute of
Medicine panels including the Food and Nutrition Board, the Committee on the Scientific Basis
of Dietary Risk Eligibility Criteria for the WIC Program, and the Committee on Nutrition
Services for Medicare Beneficiaries. Dr. Stallings received a B.S. degree in nutrition and foods
from Auburn University, an M.S. degree in human nutrition and biochemistry from Cornell
University, and an M.D. degree from the University of Alabama School of Medicine. Her
medical training was completed with a pediatric residency at The University of Virginia and a
pediatric nutrition fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario. Dr. Stallings is
board certified in pediatrics and clinical nutrition.
CAROL WEST SUITOR, Sc.D., is a nutrition consultant who currently is technical editor/
writer for the year 2005 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. Pervious consulting work
includes assisting the March of Dimes' Task Force for Nutrition and Optimal Human
Development; assisting the year 2000 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee; studying school
children's diets in conjunction with Mathematica Policy Research Inc.; and serving on the
Advisory Committee for the Harvard School of Public Health's Dietary Intake Grant
(ERS/USDA). Dr. Suitor served as study director for the Institute of Medicine for 8 years;
studies included Nutritional Status During Pregnancy and Lactation (4 studies), Scientific
Evaluation of WIC Nutrition Risk Criteria, and Dietary Reference Intakes on the B Vitamins and
Choline. At Georgetown University in the National Center for Education in Maternal and Child
Health, Dr. Suitor managed projects on maternal and child nutrition. At the Harvard School of
Public Health, she worked on the development and testing of instruments for collecting dietary
information from low-income women. Dr. Suitor has served on several Institute of Medicine
panels including the Committee on the Scientific Basis for Dietary Risk Eligibility Criteria for
WIC Programs and the Committee on Evaluation of USDA's Methodology for Estimating
Eligibility and Participation for the WIC Program. Dr. Suitor earned a B.S. degree in food and
nutrition from Cornell University, an M.S. degree in nutrition from the University of
California--Berkeley, and M.S. and Sc.D. degrees in maternal and child health from the School
of Public Health at Harvard University.
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