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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Moderators
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Moderators
Pages 185-194
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Hamburg was vice president and senior scientist at the Nuclear Threat Initiative. In the 1990s, as New York City's health commissioner, she launched several major initiatives, including the nation's first public health bioterrorism preparedness program and an internationally recognized program to curtail the resurgence and spread of tubercle bacillus.
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Dr. Arria has conducted research studies on adolescent and young adult health risk behaviors, including energy drink consumption patterns and the relationship between energy drink use and other forms of substance use.
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His research deals preferentially with the discovery of heteromers of receptors that are targets for addictive drugs or that are localized in brain circuits that are involved in addictive behaviors (such as dopamine, glutamate, cannabinoid, and adenosine receptors) and with the analysis of their biochemical and pharmacological properties involving studies at the cellular level as well as at the in vivo level.
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Dr. Fulgoni previously worked for the Kellogg Company as vice president of food and nutrition research, where he helped develop a long-term research program and was involved in the company's research and regulatory efforts to gain health claim approval from the FDA regarding soluble fiber from psyllium and the risk of heart disease.
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Ms. Mitchell is also scientific consultant to the International Life Science Institute of North America, Caffeine Working Group, to provide an update to earlier work on the caffeine intakes of the U.S.
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In addition, he assists clients wishing to design and develop scientific research programs and helps those who are developing regulatory strategies for food additives, foods that are generally recognized as safe, and novel foods. While in the food industry he was largely responsible for developing scientific strategies for establishing safety and gaining regulatory approvals for new food ingredients throughout the world.
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food additive safety evaluations, and scientific risk communication. Before undertaking his current role as a consultant in 1991, he spent 10 years at General Foods Corporation and Kraft Foods Inc.
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The Bureau of Chemical Safety of Health Canada is responsible for policy, standard setting, risk assessment, research, and evaluation activities with respect to chemicals in foods in Canada. Chemicals under the authority of the bureau include food additives; food packaging materials, processing aids, and incidental additives; food allergens; food contaminants; and novel foods.
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Dr. Petersen chaired the WHO working group on methods for estimating intakes of food additives, nutrients, new biochemical traits associated with foods derived from modern biotechnology (genetically modified organisms)
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In 1986 he discovered that taurine depletion caused a shift in energy metabolism of the heart in favor of glucose, an effect related to impaired mitochondrial function. He recently discovered that taurine deficiency leads to a decrease in the expression of mitochondria-encoded proteins, an effect that reduces the activity of the electron transport chain and enhances superoxide production by the mitochondria.
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