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Appendix C: Speaker Biographies
Pages 77-84

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From page 77...
... She served as chair of the California Preconception Care Council from 2006 to 2010 and currently serves on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Select Panel on Preconception, a coalition of government and health care providers that seeks to improve pregnancy outcomes by emphasizing the need for healthy choices across the reproductive life span of women. As assistant physician in chief at the Permanente Medical Group, Dr.
From page 78...
... She is currently a senior clinical research investigator at HealthPartners Research Foundation and holds an appointment as associate professor in the University of Minnesota Department of Family Medicine. She has published articles and book chapters on labor pain management and the medical complications of pregnancy, including hypertension, venous thromboembolism, and postpartum hemorrhage.
From page 79...
... Dr. Lu received his master's degree in health and medical sciences and public health from UC Berkeley and his medical degree from UC San Francisco.
From page 80...
... Dr. Ogunyemi has received numerous awards for medical education and clinical research, including the Association of Professors of Obstetrics and Gynecology Award for Educator of the Year 2001; the Blue Ribbon Award for birth weight for gestational age patterns at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' 52nd Annual Clinical Meeting, 2005; and the award for best presentation for noninvasive cutaneous cardiovascular dynamics patterns as predictors of preterm delivery in 2002 at the Annual Congress of the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
From page 81...
... Dr. Rasmussen has taught a nationally recognized course in maternal and child nutrition for graduate students since 1980 and has co-taught a unique course on public health nutrition for undergraduate students since 1998.
From page 82...
... in business administration from Michigan State University and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, London. Anna Maria Siega-Riz, Ph.D., R.D., is associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology with a joint appointment in the Department of Nutrition in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina (UNC)
From page 83...
... in nutrition and epidemiology from the School of Public Health at UNC, Chapel Hill.


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