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Appendix C: Speaker and Facilitator Biographies
Appendix C: Speaker and Facilitator Biographies
Pages 81-96
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Dr. Apovian was a recipient of the Physician Nutrition Specialist Award from the American Society of Clinical Nutrition for her work on developing and providing nutrition education for medical students and physicians in training at Boston University School of Medicine.
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, where he served in a number of roles, including executive director for BCBSNC's federally qualified health maintenance organization and senior vice president, healthcare and chief medical officer. His accomplishments there included producing the company's first primary care provider profiles/ reports, implementing BCBSNC's first fully transparent online medical policy, developing and successfully marketing the State of Preventive Health Summits, developing and implementing the country's first bariatric surgery centers of excellence in collaboration with the American Society of Bariatric Surgery, developing an office-based endoscopy network (so members could obtain endoscopy services for an office copay rather than a deductible and coinsurance)
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She serves with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Board on Children, Youth, and Families and Roundtables on Population Health and Improvement and Obesity Solutions; the National Center for Children in Poverty; the Winter Park Health Foundation Board; the Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum; and the University of Michigan Griffith Leadership Center Board.
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Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion from 1997 to 2012. Prior to his appointment to the CDC, he was a professor of pediatrics at the Tuft's University School of Medicine and director of clinical nutrition at the Floating Hospital of New England Medical Center Hospitals.
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He drafted NDI's policy statement for health care reform and was NDI's liaison to the Michigan Legislature regarding liability/tort reform and its effect on physicians in Detroit. He also administered a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant that established the first school-based health centers in the Detroit Public Schools.
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Ms. Hinkle is a recipient of the 2003 Robert Wood Johnson Community Health Leader Award; a 2005 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio, Italy, Study Center Fellowship; a 2008–2010 Food and Society Policy Fellowship; and a 2010 Ian Axford (New Zealand)
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Previously, he served as lead epidemiologist and team leader in the Physical Activity and Health Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, and has worked since 1984 in the area of physical activity and health. He earned his doctorate in epidemiology and community health studies at The University of Texas at Houston Health Science Center School of Public Health and an M.S.
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She is executive director of the five-star licensed North Carolina child care center Community School for People under Six in Carrboro. She has served on several national, state, and local early childhood boards, including the North Carolina Partnership for Children (NCPC)
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He also co-founded the Swasthya project, a community health partnership in rural India, to train women to be health providers and educators. During his 5-year tenure with the organization, he established seed funding and helped expand research and direct care programs that reached tens of thousands of rural residents.
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Purcell founded and became director of the Child and Family Policy Center at the Vanderbilt University Institute of Public Policy Studies. From 2008 to 2010, he served as director of the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
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She played a key role in developing and implementing many TCE signature initiatives, including the Partnership for the Public's Health, Community Action to Fight Asthma, and Healthy Eating Active Communities. Before joining TCE, she was founder and director of California Food Policy Advocates, a statewide nutrition and health research and advocacy organization focused on access to nutritious food for low-income families.
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In more than 8 years at the department, Secretary Vilsack has worked to implement President Obama's agenda to put Americans back to work and create an economy built to last. USDA has supported America's farmers, ranchers, and growers who are driving the rural economy forward, provided food assistance to millions of Americans, carried out conservation efforts, made record investments in rural communities, and helped provide a safe, sufficient, and nutritious food supply for the American people.
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In addition, Secretary Vilsack has made civil rights a top priority, reaching historic resolutions to all major past cases of discrimination brought against USDA by minority groups, and taking definitive action to move USDA into a new era as a model employer and premier service provider. Secretary Vilsack is the longest-serving member of President Obama's original Cabinet.
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Mr. Wolfe is co-chair of the Wisconsin Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Initiative, an awardwinning statewide coalition that works to improve nutrition and increase physical activity in child care settings.
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Ms. Zuckerman has also served on the Steering Committee for the North Carolina Institute of Medicine Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Task Force and the Statewide Prevention Task Force.
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