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IOM Annual Meeting 2000: Obesity. Speaker Bios
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DAVID SATCHER, M.D., Ph.D.—is Assistant Secretary for Health and Surgeon General (DHHS) and is only the second person in history to simultaneously hold these two positions. In these roles, he serves as the Secretary's senior advisor on public health matters and as director of the Office of Public Health and Science. From 1993 to 1998 Dr. Satcher served as Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Earlier he was President of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, for 11 years. In 1995, he received the Breslow Award in Public Health and in 1997 the New York Academy of Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award. Earlier this year, he received the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Award for Humanitarian Contributions to the Health of Humankind from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.
KELLY D. BROWNELL, Ph.D.—is an internationally known expert on eating disorders, obesity, and body weight regulation. He is Professor of Psychology at Yale University, where he also serves as Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health and as Director of the Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders. He has served as President of several national organizations, and has received numerous awards and honors for his work, including the James McKeen Cattell Award from the New York Academy of Sciences and the award for Outstanding Contribution to Health Psychology from the American Psychological Association. His paper on "Understanding and Preventing Relapse," published in the American Psychologist, was listed as one of the most frequently cited papers in psychology.
ROBERT C. WHITAKER, M.D., M.P.H.—is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and a member of the Division of General and Community Pediatrics at Cincinnati's Children's Hospital Medical Center. Earlier he served for six years on the faculty of the University of Washington School of Medicine. His research has focused on the childhood antecedents of adult chronic disease, with particular interest in the area of childhood obesity. Dr. Whitaker has published research on dietary fat consumption in school children and on risk factors for the development of obesity. Currently, he is working on several research projects related to obesity prevention in children and serves on the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Dietary Risk Assessment in the WIC Program.
SHIRIKI KUMANYIKA, Ph.D., R.D., M.P.H.—is Professor of Epidemiology, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology; Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics; and Associate Dean for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Her research concentrates on the role of nutritional factors in the primary and secondary prevention of chronic diseases, with a particular focus on sodium reduction, obesity, and related health problems such as hypertension and diabetes. Her most extensively acclaimed work relates to the epidemiology and management of obesity among African Americans. Dr. Kumanyika currently serves as a member of the Year 2000 U.S. Dietary Guidelines Committee, Chair of the Council on Epidemiology and Prevention of the American Heart Association, Chair of the Prevention Working Group of the International Obesity Task Force, and a member of the NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Advisory Committee.
F. XAVIER PI-SUNYER, M.D., M.P.H.—is Director of the Obesity Research Center; Chief of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center; and Professor of Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. He serves on the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases Task Force for the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity, was Chairman of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute Task Force on Treatment of Obesity, and has been a member of numerous NIH study sections and review groups. His research interests are in the hormonal control of carbohydrate metabolism, diabetes mellitus, obesity, and food intake regulation.
RUDOLPH L. LEIBEL, M.D.—is Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, and Co-Director of the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center at Columbia University. Before joining the Columbia faculty in 1997, Dr. Leibel was at Rockefeller University for 18 years. Dr. Leibel's research, for which he has received numerous awards, focuses on the genetics of obesity and noninsulin-dependent diabetes. His laboratory has mapped, cloned, and identified mutations in the obese and fatty genes in rats, mice, and, more recently, in humans. Currently, his research group is defining the physiological bases by which signaling networks regulate body size and composition and his laboratory is also working to isolate additional rodent genes that influence body weight and the susceptibility to noninsulin dependent diabetes mellitus in the context of obesity.
MICHAEL W. SCHWARTZ, M.D.—is Associate Professor, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, and Head, Section of Clinical Nutrition at the University of Washington. Dr. Schwartz is also Director of the Body Composition Core Laboratory of the Clinical Nutrition Research Unit at the university. He has won numerous honors and awards including an NIH Physician Scientist Award and has written and published extensively on his research on physiological mechanisms underlying body weight regulation. In 1996, Dr. Schwartz, led one of several teams of investigators that proved that leptin and neuropeptic Y neurons played a direct role in the reversal of obesity in laboratory animals.
ANGELO TREMBLAY, Ph.D.—is Professor, Division of Kinesiology, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at Laval University in Quebec, Canada. Dr. Tremblay was a visiting scientist at the Energy and Protein Nutrition Laboratory at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1989; and at the Department of Psychology, University of Leeds in the United Kingdom in 1992. His current research projects include: investigating the effects of exercise and exercise training on components of energy expenditure and energy balance; examining the role of heredity and of its interaction with environmental factors on energy expenditure, macronutrient oxidation, and related changes in body composition and fat distribution; investigating the role of adipose tissue metabolism on human energy balance; and studying the impact of early undernutrition on the predisposition to the insulin resistance syndrome and obesity. Dr. Tremblay also runs a nutrition clinic for the public with three other associates.
BARBARA J. ROLLS, Ph.D.—is Professor and Guthrie Chair in Nutrition at the Pennsylvania State University. Prior to this position, Dr. Rolls was Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Rolls is the Past-President of both the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior and the North American Association for the Study of Obesity. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her research, including the Merit Award in 1997 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Dr. Rolls' research interests include the controls of food and fluid intake, especially as they relate to obesity, eating disorders, and aging.
J. MICHAEL, McGINNIS, M.D., M.P.H.—is Senior Vice President and Director of the Health Group at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, NJ. Dr. McGinnis came to his post in 1999 from a four-year appointment as Scholar-in-Residence at the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council. From 1977-1995, he served as Assistant Surgeon General and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health in the Department of Health and Human Services. During his federal service, Dr. McGinnis founded and served as principal architect for a number of activities including the Healthy People process to establish and implement national health goals and objectives, the HHS/USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the first Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health, and the US Preventive Services Task Force, which produced the Guide to Clinical Preventive Services.
THOMAS N. ROBINSON, M.D., M.P.H.—is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine and Co-Director of Youth Studies at the Stanford Center for Research in Disease Prevention. For the past 15 years, Dr. Robinson has been involved in community-, school-, and family-based health behavior change research, focused on nutrition, physical activity, and smoking behavior in children and adolescents; the effects of television viewing on health-related behaviors; childhood obesity prevention and treatment; and using interactive communication technologies to promote health behavior change. He is a Principal Investigator of three NHLBI-funded school- and family-based obesity prevention studies for pre-adolescent children, and Co-Principal Investigator of an NCI-funded obesity prevention program for Mexican-American children.
ROBERT W. JEFFERY, Ph.D.—is Professor in the Division of Epidemiology at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, where he teaches human behavior, obesity and eating disorders. Dr. Jeffery is a member of the American Psychological Association, Society of Behavioral Medicine, American Public Health Association and the North American Association for the Study of Obesity and serves on the NIH Behavioral Medicine Study Section. Dr. Jeffery's current research projects include studies on theory based interventions for smoking and obesity; approaches to obesity treatment in a managed care setting; increasing availability of lowfat foods in high schools; and a study of health outcomes of weight loss.
STEVEN N. BLAIR, P.E.D.—is Director of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications and Director of Research at The Coopers Institute in Dallas. His research focuses on the associations between lifestyle and health, with a specific emphasis on exercise, physical fitness, body composition, and chronic disease. Dr. Blair was the senior Scientific Editor for the Surgeon General's Report on Physical Activity and Health. He is a Fellow in the American College of Epidemiology, Society for Behavioral Medicine, American College of Sports Medicine, Council on Epidemiology and Prevention of the American Heart Association, and the American Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education. In addition to honors received from many professional associations, Dr. Blair is one of the few individuals outside the U.S. Public Health Service to be awarded the Surgeon General's Medallion.
WILLIAM H. DIETZ, M.D., Ph.D.—is Director of the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity in the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Prior to his appointment to the CDC, he was a Professor of Pediatrics at the Tufts University School of Medicine, and Director of Clinical Nutrition at the Floating Hospital of New England Medical Center Hospitals. In addition to his academic responsibilities in Boston, Dr. Dietz was a principal research scientist at the MIT/Harvard Division of Health Science and Technology and Director of the Boston Obesity/Nutrition Research Center. He has been a councilor of the American Society for Clinical Nutrition and is past president of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity. In 1995 he received the John Stalker Award from the American School Food Service Association for his efforts to improve the school lunch.
RENA R. WING, Ph.D.—is a Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Epidemiology, and Director of the Obesity/Nutrition Research Center at the University of Pittsburgh. A social psychologist, she is known nationally and internationally for her research on behavioral approaches to obesity, with emphasis on both prevention and treatment of obesity and obesity-related diseases. She has been the principal investigator on several large studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and is currently the principal investigator for the Pittsburgh center of the NIH-funded Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), and is responsible for developing and coordinating the lifestyle intervention being implemented at all 27 DPP sites.
GEORGE A. BRAY, M.D.—is Boyd Professor, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University. From 1988-1999 he served as Executive Director of the Pennington Center. Prior to coming to the Center, Dr. Bray was Professor of Medicine and of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Southern California, and Chief of Diabetes and Clinical Nutrition at the Los Angeles County General Hospital. He also previously served as Nutrition Coordinator in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, DHHS. Dr. Bray has received many honors and awards, including the 20th Annual Bristol-Myers Squibb/ Mead Johnson Award for Distinguished Achievement in Nutrition Research, and is Principal Investigator on four NIH grants including one MERIT Award. His two most recent books are the Handbook of Obesity and Contemporary Diagnosis and Management of Obesity, both published in 1998.
JEFFREY M. FRIEDMAN, M.D., Ph.D.—is Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Professor at The Rockefeller University. He is this year's recipient of the Osborne Mendel Award from the American Society for Nutritional Sciences and the Endocrinology Transatlantic Medal from the Society for Endocrinology-United Kingdom. The Transatlantic Medal is awarded, on an annual basis, to a North American endocrinologist judged to have made significant contributions to the discipline. Dr. Friedman's research is in the area of molecular mechanisms regulating body weight, and the genetics of obesity. He and his colleagues cloned the mouse ob gene and found it encodes a novel hormone, leptin, that reduces body fat when injected into mice.
JEFFREY P. KOPLAN, M.D., M.P.H.—is Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). His distinguished career in public health, disease prevention and health promotion started in the laboratory and the field as an Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer, one of CDC's celebrated "disease detectives." Before becoming CDC director, Dr. Koplan served as the President of the Prudential Center for Health Care Research in Atlanta. He has held numerous academic appointments and is currently Visiting Professor of Community Health at Emory University School of Medicine, Clinical Professor of Community Medicine at Morehouse Medical School and a lecturer at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Koplan has written or contributed to more than 140 scientific publications and published articles have addressed such diverse areas as the Bhopal chemical disaster, viral vaccines, the course of smallpox infection in Bangladesh, the risks and benefits of exercise and a host of other issues.
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Last Updated: 5/30/2003, 03:23 PM
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