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Biographical Sketches
of Workshop Speakers
Carol (Cory) J. Baker-Fulco, M.S., R.D., is a research dietitian in the Military
Nutrition Division of the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medi-
cine. She received a Master of Science degree in nutrition from the University of
Bridgeport, Connecticut. She serves as a principal investigator responsible for
applied research in support of studies on nutrition and operational medicine. Her
research area includes assessment of the dietary and nutritional status of military
personnel and evaluation of feeding systems and operational rations. Her areas
of concentration include and dietary assessment, sports nutrition, nutrient re-
quirements in environmental extremes, and nutrition education. Ms. Baker-Fulco
developed Performance Power: The Nutrition Connection program, a video-
based sports nutrition education program for military personnel distributed Army
wide. Ms. Baker-Fulco is a member of the American Dietetic Association, the
Research Dietitian Practice Group, and the Practice Group on Sports, Cardio-
vascular, and Wellness Nutrition.
John L. Beard, Ph.D., is a professor of nutrition in the Department of Nutrition
at Pennsylvania State University. He earned degrees in organic chemistry in
1970 (B.S.), and 1972 (M.S.) from the Stevens Institute of Technology and the
University of CaliforniaSanta Cruz, respectively; and his Ph.D. degree from
Cornell University (1979) in human nutrition. His research interests include: role
of iron in dopamine metabolism and action; effect of early life iron deficiency on
brain development and functioning; relationship of brain iron metabolism to
monoamine metabolism in Restless Legs Syndrome and; food based approaches
to the eradication of iron deficiency. Dr. Beard serves as an associate editor of
the Journal of Nutrition.
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Joseph G. Cannon, Ph.D., is a professor in the Departments of Physiology and
Biomedical Technologies at the Medical College of Georgia (MCG), and Asso-
ciate Dean for Research in the School of Allied Health Sciences at MCG. For-
merly, he was a professor of applied physiology at the Pennsylvania State Uni-
versity. He earned his Ph.D. in physiology from the University of Michigan, his
M.S. in engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles, and his
B.S. in engineering from Michigan State University. Dr. Cannon's primary re-
search interests include (a) immunological mechanisms involved in skeletal
muscle repair following injury, and (b) nutritional and hormonal influences on
leukocyte function. He holds the Kellett Chair in Allied Health Sciences at MCG.
Dr. Cannon has served on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Physi-
ology and Journal of Applied Physiology, and is the author or co-author of over
100 articles in scientific publications.
Gerald F. Combs, Jr., Ph.D., is center director of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture's Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center. He also is Profes-
sor Emeritus at the Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, and an
adjunct professor in the School of Medicine at the University of North Dakota.
Previously, he was a professor of nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sci-
ences at Cornell University, having been on that faculty since 1975. Dr. Combs
earned his B.S. degree in zoology in 1969, his M.S. degree in entomology in
1971, and his Ph.D. degree in nutrition in 1973. Dr. Combs is internationally
recognized for his research in the nutritional biochemistry of trace elements and
vitamins. His special interests have concerned the metabolism and physiological
actions of the antioxidant nutrients selenium, vitamin E, vitamin C, and factors
that can affect their metabolic functions and dietary needs (e.g., vitamin A, caro-
tenoids, iron, copper, zinc), particularly as they relate to health maintenance in
and reduction of chronic disease (e.g., cancer) risks in humans and animals.
J. Mark Davis, Ph.D., is a professor and director of Graduate Programs and Re-
search in the Department of Exercise Science, which is part of the University of
South Carolina's Arnold School of Public Health. He's been there almost 22 years
since completing a Ph.D. degree at Purdue University in exercise physiology/
neuroscience followed by a post-doctoral fellowship in neuroendocrinology at Mt.
Sinai Medical School in New York. He is a Fellow of the American College of
Sports Medicine where he is currently a member of the Board of Trustees. He also
serves on the Sports Medicine Review Board of the Gatorade Sports Science Insti-
tute. Davis is an international authority (> 95 publications) on the effects of exer-
cise and nutrition on (1) mental and physical fatigue and (2) immune function as
related to defense against infection and cancer. His current research funding in-
cludes, among others, a large grant from the U.S. Army to develop novel herbal
supplements to delay mental and physical fatigue, enhance recovery from intense
exercise, and optimize immune function in soldiers.
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Monika Fleshner, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Inte-
grative Physiology, a member of the Center for Neuroscience, and director of
the Neuroimmunophysiology laboratory at the University of Colorado at Boul-
der. Dr. Fleshner received her Ph.D. in behavioral neuroscience from the Uni-
versity of Colorado in 1990, and completed postdoctoral work in Immunology
at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center 1992. Dr. Fleshner is
interested in understanding the impact of acute and chronic stress (mental,
physical, or aging) on many aspects of integrative physiology. Specifically,
her research examines the impact of stress on behavior, neural, hormonal and
immunological function and how these systems interact to affect the whole
organism She has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, serves as a re-
viewer for over a dozen scientific journals, and is an assistant editor for the
Journal of Applied Physiology.
Karl E. Friedl, Ph.D., is the commander of the U.S. Army Research Institute of
Environmental Medicine in Natick, Massachusetts, a laboratory specialized in
human performance and metabolic responses in harsh environments. Prior to this
assignment, Colonel Friedl directed the Military Operational Medicine Research
Program at the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command in Fred-
erick, Maryland, including management of the DoD Gulf War Illnesses research
portfolio and Congressional special interest programs such as bone health re-
search, neurotoxin exposure treatment (Parkinson's) research, nutrition research,
and the Defense Womens' Health Research Program. In earlier assignments he
specialized in physiological limits of prolonged, intensive military training and
endocrine physiology. He received his Ph.D. in physiology in 1984 from the
Institute of Environmental Stress at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
He has published original articles on diverse physiological investigations such
as: functional consequences of semi starvation in high intensity field training;
body composition methods and standards for DoD fitness regulations; nerve
agent antidote delivery systems; steroid regulation of spermatogenesis for poten-
tial male contraception; and noninvasive physiological measurement systems to
monitor hemorrhage and resuscitation.
Jere D. Haas, Ph.D., is the Nancy Schlegel Meinig Professor of Maternal and
Child Nutrition in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. He
received his Ph.D. in biological anthropology from the Pennsylvania State Univer-
sity and has been on the Cornell faculty for 30 years. He is currently conducting
research on the functional consequences of iron deficiency on physical and repro-
ductive performance. The emphasis is on the effects of moderate iron deficiency
on various aspects of physical performance and behavior in young women and
how measures of performance relate to everyday productivity and social and eco-
nomic well-being. He conducts research on this and related topics in maternal and
child nutrition in the United States, Mexico, the Philippines, Guatemala, Bolivia,
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and Bangladesh. Dr. Haas served as vice-president and president of the American
Association of Physical Anthropologists and serves on the Expert Advisory Panel
for Nutrition of the World Health Organization and the Technical Advisory Group
on Food and Nutrition of the Pan American Health Organization. He served as
director of the Division of Nutritional Science at Cornell from 1998 to 2003.
Davidson H. Hamer, M.D., is an associate professor of international health at
the Boston University School of Public Health, an adjunct associate professor of
nutrition at the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science
and Policy, and a visiting scientist in the Department of Nutritional Immunology
at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center. Dr. Hamer is based
at the Center for International Health and Development where he provides the
lead technical support for applied research on micronutrients, malaria, and neo-
natal diseases as well as technical support for the diarrheal disease, respiratory
disease, and antimicrobial resistance programs. During the last decade, Dr.
Hamer has worked closely with local scientists on policy-relevant research in-
volving evaluations of interventions for the treatment and prevention of malaria,
micronutrient deficiencies, diarrheal disease, and acute respiratory infections in
young children in resource-poor countries.
Emily M. Haymes, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food
and Exercise Sciences at Florida State University. She received her B.A. from
Drury College in 1961, her M.S. from Florida State University in 1962, and her
Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 1973. Prior to joining the faculty at
Florida State in 1979, she taught at the University of ColoradoBoulder for five
years. An exercise physiologist, her primary research interests are iron depletion
in athletes, field measurements of physical activity and energy expenditure, and
the response of males and females to exercise in warm and cold environments.
She co-authored the book The Environment and Human Performance with
Christine Wells. Dr. Haymes has published papers in several journals including
the Journal of Applied Physiology, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise,
International Journal of Sports Medicine, International Journal of Sport Nutri-
tion, Exercise Metabolism, and the Physician and Sportsmedicine. Dr. Haymes
served a three-year term as president of the Research Consortium and a two-year
term as vice president of the American College of Sports Medicine. She is a
Fellow of the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education, Amer-
ican College of Sports Medicine, and the Research Consortium of the American
Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance.
Steven B. Heymsfield, M.D., is the executive director of clinical sciences at
Merck pharmaceutical company. In this capacity he leads clinical obesity drug
development in Company's metabolism division. Dr. Heymsfield was the former
director of the Human Body Composition Laboratory and Weight Control Unit
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and the deputy director of the NIH-supported New York Obesity Research Cen-
ter at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital. In addition, he was a professor of medicine
at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and a visiting scien-
tist at Rockefeller University and the Brookhaven National Laboratory. Dr.
Heymsfield maintains an appointment at the medical center and his research
there continues. Dr. Heymsfield received his bachelor's degree from Hunter Col-
lege in New York, and his degree in medicine from Mount Sinai School of
Medicine in New York. He completed his medical internship and residency at
Emory University in Atlanta, continuing on to become a fellow in medicine prior
to his Columbia appointments in 1986. He moved to Merck in November of
2004. Dr. Heymsfield has published more than 300 articles covering topics such
as obesity, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, malnutrition, pregnancy, body
composition, and caloric expenditure. He developed a mathematical expression,
the lithogenic index, for characterizing bile proclivity for cholesterol gallstone
formation that has been used worldwide for over two decades.
Janet R. Hunt, Ph.D., R.D., is the research leader of the Micronutrient Absorp-
tion and Metabolism Unit at the U.S. Department of Agriculture/Agricultural
Research Service (USDA/ARS) Human Nutrition Research Center in Grand
Forks, North Dakota, and is an adjunct professor of nutrition and dietetics at the
University of North Dakota. Dr. Hunt received her Ph.D. in nutrition from the
University of Minnesota. An active member of the American Society for Clini-
cal Nutrition, the American Society for Nutritional Sciences, the International
BioIron Society and the American Dietetic Association (ADA), she has served
on the ADA board of directors and the ADA journal's editorial board, and has
co-authored ADA's Position Statements on Vitamin and Mineral Supplements.
Dr. Hunt investigates human iron and zinc requirements as influenced by dietary
bioavailability, and has published extensively on these topics.
Carl Keen, Ph.D., is a professor in nutrition and internal medicine and chair of
the Department of Nutrition, University of CaliforniaDavis. He has served on
numerous government boards. He has been a member of California's Scientific
Advisory Board for the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment since
1993. He has been a member of EPA Environmental Health Grant Review Pan-
els (19901999), USDA Human Nutrient Requirements Study (19871992), and
several NIH panels (Nutrition Study Section 19971999; ALTOX Study Section
20022004; XNDA Study Section 2004present). He is past president of the
California Nutrition Council (1998). He is a member of the American Society
for Nutritional Sciences, the American Society of Clinical Nutrition, the Teratol-
ogy Society, the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, and the Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Keen has served on numer-
ous editorial boards and has chaired and organized national and international
scientific conferences.
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Cathy W. Levenson, Ph.D., is currently an associate professor in the Depart-
ment of Nutrition, Food and Exercise Sciences, and in the Program in Neuro-
science at Florida State University. She holds a B.A. in neurobiology from the
University of Virginia, an M.S. from the Department of Nutrition at Florida
State University, and a Ph.D. from the Department of Medicine at the University
of Chicago. Her research is focused on the role of the trace metals zinc, copper,
and iron in the central nervous system with a particular interest in the role these
nutrients play in gene expression that directs neuronal death and survival.
Harris R. Lieberman, Ph.D., is a research psychologist in the Military Nutri-
tion Division of the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine
(USARIEM) in Natick, Massachusetts. Dr. Lieberman is an internationally rec-
ognized expert in the area of nutrition and behavior and has published over 125
original, full-length papers in scientific journals and edited books. He has been
an invited lecturer at numerous national and international conferences, govern-
ment research laboratories and universities. Dr. Lieberman received his Ph.D. in
physiological psychology in 1977 from the University of Florida and then con-
ducted postdoctoral research at the Department of Psychology and Brain Science
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). From 19801990, he was
on the research staff at MIT where he examined the effects of food constituents
and drugs on human behavior and brain function. In 1990, Dr. Lieberman joined
the civilian research staff of USARIEM where he has continued his work in
nutrition, behavior and stress. From 1994 to 2000, he was chief or deputy chief
of the Military Nutrition program at USARIEM. His recent research has ad-
dressed the effects of various nutritional factors, diets and environmental stress
on animal and human performance, brain function and behavior. His work has
focused on developing and applying a variety of emerging technologies in nutri-
tion, neuroscience and microelectronics to sustaining and enhancing human per-
formance in stressful environments. He holds two patents for novel technologies
to assess and enhance cognitive performance. Dr. Lieberman currently chairs an
International Defense Panel on Protection and Sustainment of Human Physical
and Cognitive Performance.
Henry C. Lukaski, Ph.D., is assistant center director and research physiologist
at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Grand
Forks Human Nutrition Research Center and adjunct professor of medicine, and
physical education and exercise science at the University of North Dakota. Since
receiving his Ph.D. in physiology with a minor in nutrition from the Pennsylva-
nia State University, Dr. Lukaski has developed a productive research program
in determining functional roles of bioactive components of food, including min-
eral elements, and developing methods for human body composition assessment.
He has published numerous articles and reviews in peer reviewed journals, book
chapters, and position papers for professional organizations. He has provided
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consultation and advice to the World Health Organization, Medical Subcom-
mittee of the International Olympic Committee and U.S. Olympic Committee,
federal organizations including National Institutes of Health, Department of De-
fense and National Aeronautics and Space Agency, and research and develop-
ment organizations such as Gatorade and GlaxoSmithKline. He has served or is
a member of the editorial boards of British Journal of Nutrition, Journal of
Nutrition, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, International Journal of
Sports Nutrition and Metabolism, Nutrition, International Journal of Applied
Sports Science, Current Nutrition and Food Science, and CRC Press Series on
Nutrition and Sport. Dr. Lukaski is a fellow of the American College of Sports
Medicine, Human Biology Council and the Mexican Institute of Nutrition.
Jeri W. Nieves, Ph.D., is from the Helen Hayes Hospital in New York, where
she is director of bone density testing. Dr. Nieves is also an assistant professor of
clinical epidemiology at Columbia University. Dr. Nieves has co-authored over
60 journal articles, reviews, and book chapters on nutrition, epidemiology, and
osteoporosis. She is a graduate of Columbia University where she received her
Ph.D. in epidemiology, following a Masters degree in nutrition from Cornell
University. Her current main interest is in calcium and vitamin D and the pre-
vention and treatment of osteoporosis. She is a recipient of a grant from the
National Institute of Health to study the effect of vitamin D supplementation for
osteoporosis treatment in black postmenopausal women. She is currently work-
ing on two studies of young adults to determine the role of nutrition, exercise
and menstrual function on peak bone mass and stress fractures. She serves on the
Editorial Board of Osteoporosis International.
James G. Penland, Ph.D., is a research psychologist with the USDA, Agricul-
tural Research Service, Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center, and ad-
junct professor of psychology at the University of North Dakota, where he re-
ceived his doctoral degree in experimental cognitive psychology in 1984. Dr.
Penland directs a comprehensive research program to study the effects of min-
eral nutrition (including copper, iron, magnesium, selenium, and zinc) on a broad
range of human and animal neuropsychological function and behavior through-
out the life span. During the past 20 years, Dr. Penland has conducted metabolic
unit and community based feeding and supplementation studies, and designed
and implemented a mobile nutrition laboratory for studies in schools, nursing
homes, and rural communities. In addition to many research collaborations in the
United States, Dr. Penland has participated in nutrition studies in Guatemala,
New Zealand and the Peoples Republic of China. Dr. Penland has authored or
co-authored nearly 100 scientific publications and served on many expert panels
and scientific advisory groups. Dr. Penland has been honored as a Distinguished
Alumni at the University of North Dakota and received the USDA Honor Award
for Excellence.
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Susan S. Percival, Ph.D., is a professor of nutritional sciences in the Depart-
ment of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Florida. Her
educational background includes an M.S. degree from the University of Califor-
niaDavis, and a Ph.D. from the University of TexasAustin. She did post-
doctoral research in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Texas
A&M University. From 1978 to 1981 she was tenure track faculty at the Univer-
sity of Rhode Island prior to an educational leave to pursue her doctorate. At the
University of Florida, she was an undergraduate coordinator for over 700 under-
graduate students from 1994 to 2002. Dr. Percival is a member of several profes-
sional organizations including the American Society for Nutritional Sciences
and the Institute of Food Technologists. She has been a member of the editorial
board of the Journal of Nutrition since 2000 and previously served as an IFT
Scientific Lecturer. She is completing a leave of absence from the University of
Florida at the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Division
of Cancer Prevention, Nutritional Sciences Research Group. Her current research
deals with how dietary components influence immunity.
Michael N. Sawka, Ph.D., is chief of the Thermal and Mountain Medicine Di-
vision at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine. Dr.
Sawka's research interests are environmental (heat, cold, altitude) and exercise
physiology, fluid/electrolyte balance, and rehabilitation medicine. He has pub-
lished over 285 full-length scientific papers as well as edited graduate textbooks
on environmental physiology and on exercise physiology. He has presented over
65 invited Symposia and Keynote Lectures at scientific meetings. Dr. Sawka is a
member of several editorial boards including American Journal of Physiology,
Journal of Applied Physiology, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise,
International Journal of Sports Medicine. He served on many scientific panels
and professional committees such as those for the Institute of Medicine; National
Institutes of Health; U.S. Anti-Doping Agency; Olympic Scientific Committees.
He is active within the American Physiological Society and the American Col-
lege of Sports Medicine. He is frequently cited and interviewed by the press.
John F. Sheridan, Ph.D., is a professor of immunology and director of a T32
training grant titled Comprehensive Training in Oral and Craniofacial Biology.
He currently holds the George C. Paffenbarger Alumni Endowed Research Chair,
and is the associate director of the Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research at
the Ohio State University. He received a B.S. degree in biology from Fordham
University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in microbiology from the Waksman
Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University. He did postdoctoral training in
microbiology/immunology at the Duke University Medical Center and the Johns
Hopkins School of Medicine. He is a founding member and past president of
the Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society. His major research interests in-
clude neuroendocrine regulation of gene expression in inflammatory and im-
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mune responses, stress-induced susceptibility to infectious disease, viral patho-
genesis, and host immunity.
Connie M. Weaver, Ph.D., is a distinguished professor and head of the Depart-
ment of Foods & Nutrition at Purdue UniversityWest Lafayette, Indiana. In
2000, she also became director of a National Institutes of Health funded Botani-
cal Center to study dietary supplements containing polyphenolics for age-related
diseases. Her research interests include mineral bioavailability, calcium metabo-
lism, and bone health. Dr. Weaver is past-president of American Society for
Nutritional Sciences and is on the board of trustees of the International Life
Sciences Institute. For her contributions in teaching, Dr. Weaver was awarded
Purdue University's Outstanding Teaching Award. In 1993, she was honored
with the Purdue University Health Promotion Award for Women, and in 1997,
she received the Institute of Food Technologists Babcock Hart Award. In April
2003, she received the USDA A.O. Atwater Lecturership Award at the annual
Experimental Biology meeting. Dr. Weaver was appointed to the 2005 U.S.
Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. She has published over 100 research
articles. Dr. Weaver received a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in
food science and human nutrition from Oregon State University. She received a
Ph.D. in food science and human nutrition from Florida State University and
holds minors in chemistry and plant physiology.
Andrew J. Young, Ph.D., is a research physiologist and chief of the Military
Nutrition Division at the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medi-
cine (USARIEM) in Natick, Massachusetts. He obtained a B.S. in biology at
Virginia Military Institute, and a Ph.D. in physiology at North Carolina State
University, and then served in the U.S. Army with assignments at USARIEM
(19771981) and at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (19811983).
After leaving the Army, Dr. Young continued as a civilian scientist at USARIEM.
His research has concerned the biological basis for, and strategies to mitigate
performance degradations in people experiencing intense physical exertion, sleep
restriction, nutritional deprivation and exposure to extremes of heat, cold, and
high altitude, all of which are characteristics of sustained combat operations. Dr.
Young is a member of the American Physiological Society, a fellow of the
American College of Sports Medicine. He is also associate editor-in-chief of the
American College of Sports Medicine's flagship scientific journal, Medicine and
Science in Sports and Exercise, and was recently named to become editor-in-
chief for that journal beginning in July of 2005.
