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Workshop Agenda and
Speaker Biographical Sketches
June 7–8, 2010
Keck Center of the National Academies
500 Fifth Street, N.W., Room 201
Washington, DC
1:00 p.m. Welcome and introduction
Leann Birch
SESSION 1: FILLING THE GAPS
1:10 Injury prevention
Keshia Pollack, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health (by phone)
Presentation on early FITS data findings
Ronette Briefel, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Motor development
Jane Clark, University of Maryland
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Electronic media
Elizabeth Vandewater, RTI International
Sleep
Judith Owens, Brown University
Factors affecting growth
Nancy Krebs, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
3:00 Break
SESSION 2: PROGRAMS
3:15 WIC
Laurie True, California WIC Association
Head Start
Everludis Lopez, Head Start, Fairfax, Virginia
Child Care
Doris Fredericks, Choices 4 Children, San Jose, California
SESSION 3: POLICY NEEDS
4:15 Policy needs
Gabrielle Serra, Education and Nutrition Policy Advisor, House
Committee on Education and Labor
Dan Christensen, Professional Staff, Senate Committee on
Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry
5:00 Adjourn
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF WORKSHOP SPEAKERS
RONETTE R. BRIEFEL, Dr.P.H., R.D., a senior fellow at Mathematica Policy
Research in Washington, DC, is the project director and principal investigator
for the 2008 Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study (FITS) and was the co-principal
investigator for the 2002 FITS. Dr. Briefel’s research includes evaluations of nutri-
tion programs, population-based studies of the diets and health status of chil-
dren and high-risk populations, and investigations of the home and school food
environments and children’s diet and obesity. She has authored more than 100
publications in peer-reviewed journals on topics including infant feeding patterns,
dietary intake, food security, obesity, and cardiovascular risk factors of children
and disadvantaged populations. Dr. Briefel served on the Institute of Medicine’s
Committee on Dietary Risk Assessment in the WIC Program and Committee on
Strategies to Reduce Sodium Intake in the United States. She received her B.S.
in nutrition from Pennsylvania State University, and her M.P.H. in maternal and
child health and Dr.P.H. in chronic disease epidemiology from the University of
Pittsburgh. Dr. Briefel is a member of the American Society for Nutrition and the
American Dietetic Association and is a registered dietitian.
JANE E. CLARK, Ph.D., is professor and chair of the Department of Kinesiology
and professor in the Neuroscience and Cognitive Sciences program at the
University of Maryland, College Park. Currently, her research focuses on the
development of motor control and coordination in typically developing infants
and children and those children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD).
The National Science Foundation has funded her research on infant motor devel-
opment, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) continues to support her
work on children with DCD. She has co-edited 7 texts on motor development
and authored 24 book chapters and more than 60 refereed journal publications.
She has presented more than 200 scientific papers at national and international
conferences and been invited to speak at universities in 10 countries. In addition
to her scientific contributions, Dr. Clark has served as the elected leader of three
national organizations in the field of kinesiology. She received her Ph.D. in kinesi-
ology from the University of Wisconsin with a major emphasis on the motor skill
development of infants and children, an area in which she has made her scientific
contributions for more than 30 years.
DORIS C. FREDERICKS, M.Ed., R.D., is executive director of Choices for
Children, an organization that provides a variety of family and provider services.
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Ms. Fredericks is past president of the California Dietetics Association. She has
experience in child care resources and referrals, parent and provider education,
and child care and nutrition subsidies. In her current position, she oversees the
Child Care Subsidy Program, which utilizes state and federal funds to provide
financial assistance for child care services for families and referrals to potential
child care centers and home providers who may meet family schedules and needs.
Ms. Fredericks also works with the nutrition teams in all regions providing tech-
nical assistance for the Child Care Food Program operation, as well as nutrition
education for child caregivers, children, and families. Ms. Fredericks received her
M.Ed. in nutrition education from the University of Cincinnati and her B.A. in
dietetics from Ohio Wesleyan University.
NANCY F. KREBS, M.D., M.S., is professor of pediatrics in the Department
of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado, Denver (UCD), and is head of the
Section of Nutrition in the Department of Pediatrics. She has extensive research
experience in trace mineral nutrition in breastfeeding infants and their moth-
ers, including in international settings. Her current research is testing effects of
different complementary feeding regimens to meet micronutrient requirements
for breastfed infants. Through the NIH/National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development (NICHD) Global Network for Women’s and Children’s
Research, she leads an ongoing multicountry efficacy trial of complementary feed-
ing and growth and development. As a secondary area of research interest, Dr.
Krebs is a co-investigator in research related to childhood obesity, both prevention
and treatment studies. Her clinical activities include directing two pediatric nutri-
tion clinics—one for children with undernutrition and feeding problems and the
other for overweight infants and children. She served as chair of the Committee
on Nutrition for the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for 4 years and as
co-chair of the AAP Task Force on Obesity. From 2003 to 2007, she served as a
member of the Food and Nutrition Board with the Institute of Medicine. After
graduating from the UCD School of Medicine, she completed a pediatric intern-
ship and residency and a 3-year fellowship in pediatric gastroenterology and nutri-
tion at UCD. She is board certified in general pediatrics, clinical nutrition, and
pediatric gastroenterology.
EVERLUDIS LÓPEZ, R.D., manages the Nutrition Services Area for Fairfax
County Early Head Start and Head Start programs. She has more than 30 years
of experience working with children and pregnant women. Ms. López earned
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her bachelor’s degree in home economics with a concentration in nutrition and
dietetics from the University of Puerto Rico. Her area of expertise is working with
children and pregnant women from low-income families. Other areas of expertise
include speaking and writing fluently in Spanish, providing technical assistance to
staff and families on ways to improve dietary and healthy eating habits, and pro-
viding training on nutrition issues. Ms. López spoke at the Institute of Medicine’s
Committee to Review Adult and Child Care Feeding Programs workshop in
February 2010.
JUDITH OWENS, M.D., is associate professor of pediatrics at the Brown Medical
School. She is board certified in developmental/behavioral pediatrics and sleep
medicine. Her particular research interests are in the neurobehavioral and health
consequences of sleep problems in children, pharmacologic treatment of pediat-
ric sleep disorders, sleep health education, and cultural and psychosocial issues
impacting sleep. As a recipient of a 5-year NIH grant in sleep education, the Sleep
Academic Award, she has developed educational materials for the Brown Medical
School, as well as the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM). Dr. Owens
received the AASM 2006 Excellence in Education Award and recently completed
a four-year term as chair of the AASM Section on Childhood Sleep Disorders and
Development. She is director of the Pediatric Sleep Disorders Clinic at Hasbro
Children’s Hospital and the Learning, Attention, and Behavior Program at Rhode
Island Hospital. Dr. Owens received her undergraduate and medical degrees from
Brown and a master’s degree in maternal and child health from the University of
Minnesota. She completed pediatric residency training at Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia and fellowships in behavioral pediatrics at Minneapolis Children’s
Medical Center and in child psychiatry at Brown University.
KESHIA M. POLLACK, Ph.D., M.P.H., is assistant professor and director of the
Occupational Injury Epidemiology and Prevention Training Program at Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is a member of the core fac-
ulty of the Center for Injury Research and Policy, the Education and Research
Center for Occupational Safety and Health, and the Center for Health Disparities
Solutions. Her research interest is in preventing injuries related to occupation,
obesity, sports/physical activity, and the built environment and understanding how
such injuries disproportionately affect vulnerable populations. Dr. Pollack also is
interested in the role of epidemiology in the policy making process, especially the
use of research by legislators and the use of tools such as health impact assessment
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in the policy making process. She works for Delegate Dan Morhaim, a member of
the Maryland General Assembly. She also is an advisor to a community coalition
of the Associated Black Charities seeking to alleviate the burden of childhood obe-
sity in Baltimore. Prior to joining the Johns Hopkins faculty, Dr. Pollack complet-
ed a postdoctoral fellowship in evaluation sponsored jointly by the University of
Pennsylvania Campbell Collaboration and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
There, she worked on research, evaluations, and programming for childhood obe-
sity and health issues affecting vulnerable populations. Dr. Pollack received her
B.A. from Tufts University, her M.P.H. from Yale University, and her Ph.D. from
The Johns Hopkins University.
GABRIELLE SERRA, M.S., is a policy advisor for Chairman George Miller of
the Committee on Education and Labor of the U.S. House of Representatives.
She joined the committee in June 2009. She is responsible primarily for advising
on food and nutrition policy issues. Prior to her work on the committee, she had
served with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Food and Nutrition
Services since 2003, working mainly in the area of policy and program develop-
ment for the school meal programs. Ms. Serra also served on detail assignment in
2008 as policy advisor in the Office of the Under Secretary of the Food, Nutrition,
and Consumer Services of USDA, which is the administering agency for the
domestic nutrition assistance programs. Ms. Serra received an M.S. in food policy
and applied nutrition, with an emphasis in food policy and economics, from the
Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. She received
her B.S. in public health in 2003 from the College of Health and Human Sciences
of Oregon State University. Ms. Serra is a 2003 recipient of the USDA Public
Service Leaders Scholars Fellowship.
LAURIE TRUE, M.P.H., R.D., is executive director at the California WIC
Association in Sacramento. Previously, she was research and policy director at
California Food Policy Advocates in San Francisco. She is a public health nutri-
tionist with many years of experience in research, community organizing, and leg-
islative advocacy. Ms. True consults widely with federal, state, and local decision
makers, academics, and community-based organizations on WIC, nutrition, and
health policy. She was involved in the founding of many of California’s current
health advocacy organizations and coalitions, including the California Food Policy
Advocates, the California WIC Association, and the Strategic Alliance for Healthy
Food and Activity Environments. Ms. True has overseen numerous community-
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based applied research and evaluation projects on federal nutrition policy, includ-
ing a hunger survey of children in California’s Central Valley. She has advocated
successfully on many bills and issues impacting the health and nutrition of the
state’s most vulnerable populations. She serves on many statewide advisory boards
and was a reviewer of the Institute of Medicine’s report WIC Food Packages:
Time for a Change. In 2005, she was an Atlantic Public Policy Fellow and worked
for the government of Scotland, advising on obesity prevention and child nutrition
reforms. In 2008, she received the Excellence in Dietary Guidance Award from
the American Public Health Association. Ms. True received her B.S. in nutrition
science from Barnard College and Simmons College (Boston) and her M.P.H. and
registered dietitian credential from the University of California, Berkeley.
ELIZABETH A. VANDEWATER, Ph.D., is senior research scientist at RTI
International. Between 1998 and 2007, she was on the faculty at the University
of Texas at Austin, where she received tenure and served as associate director
of the Population Research Center and as director of the Center for Research
on Interactive Technology, Television and Children. Dr. Vandewater’s research
focuses on children’s health behaviors and health outcomes. Her current research
projects focus on two issues central to children’s health and well-being: (1) the
development of pediatric obesity, and (2) the effect of media on very young chil-
dren. Her research has been funded by NICHD, the National Science Foundation,
the Department of Education, the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Fisher-Price
Corporation, and the Brainy Baby Corporation. She is a founding investigator
of the Children’s Digital Media Center, a research collaborative funded by the
National Science Foundation that focuses on the impact of new technologies on
children, now in its ninth year of funding. Dr. Vandewater currently serves on the
board of PBS Kids Next Generation Media and the Social Sciences and Population
Studies review panel at NIH. She received her Ph.D. in psychology from the
University of Michigan and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in life course
development at the Institute for Social Research.
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