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Nominating Committee
2008-09 Chair:
Stacey L. Mobley, PhD, RD, CNSD
Dr. Stacey Mobley is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Foods and Nutrition at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. At Purdue, Dr. Mobley directs the didactic program in dietetics and the Laboratory for Clinical Research in Bone Health and Obesity. He also teaches courses in metabolism and medical nutrition therapy as well as advises undergraduate and graduate students.
Dr. Mobley received his BS and PhD at The Ohio State University in the Department of Human Nutrition. He also completed postdoctoral training at The Ohio State University in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation where he was responsible for coordinating a large NIH-funded case-control study investigating nutritional status and childhood fractures.
After his post-doctoral training, Dr. Mobley completed a dietetic internship through the Army at Walter Reed Army Medical Center where he continued to serve as a clinical dietitian and Assistant Chief of Clinical Research. During his tenure at Walter Reed, Dr. Mobley spearheaded their first nutrition research laboratory.
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2008-09 Chair-Elect:
Jeanene Fogli PhD, RD
Dr. Fogli is currently a Director of Endocrinology, Metabolic Disease & Cardiology at i3 research, a clinical research organization. At i3, Dr. Fogli is responsible for reviewing protocols, and recommending modifications to the design, determining the most appropriate methods for measuring nutrition related outcomes as well as providing dietary education specific in research protocols. She also authors papers and conducts company-wide educations session on several nutrition related topics.
Jeanne received her BS from the University of Delaware, her MS from Marywood University, and her Doctoral degree in Nutritional Biochemistry and Metabolism from Tufts School of Nutrition Science and Policy. Prior to joining i3, she was Instructor in the Department of Translational Research at Harvard Medical School, and Chief Bionutritionist at the General Clinical Research Center (GCRC), at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), in Boston, MA (1999-2007).
She is a former President of the Massachusetts Dietetic Association and is currently the incoming Chair of the American Dietetic Association’s Research Practice Group. She is also an active member of the Endocrine Society and Obesity Society
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2008-09 Secretary:
Martha McMurry, MS, RD
Ms. Martha McMurry, MS, RD is an assistant research professor at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). She is Manager of the Bionutrition Unit of the Clinical and Translational Research Center (formerly GCRC) of the new Oregon Clinical and Translational Research Institute. This unit provides a wide variety of nutrition services to investigators and participant volunteers for numerous research projects.
Martha obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Iowa, where she also completed her dietetic internship and master's degree. She has worked in clinical research centers at the University of Iowa, University of Utah and this is her second time at the center in Portland.
Highlights of her career to date include a series of studies on the Tarahumara--a group of native Americans living in the rugged Copper Canyon area of the Sierras in Mexico; being part of the development of the “Alternative American Diet” and subsequent publication of nationally-distributed cookbooks; serving as Committee Chair of the Utah Heart Association, as Planning Chair of a UDA Annual meeting and as President of the National Association of GCRC Bionutritionists (NAGB); converting the Bionutrition Unit from a GCRC-funded to a CTSA-funded program; and getting to know many dietitians whom she respects and treasures.
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2007-08 Treasurer:
Valerie Episcopo, MA, RD
Val Episcopo teaches research methods, statistics, theory, and sociology of health as an instructor at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. Val is also a dietitian and a sociology Ph.D. candidate at Syracuse University, how social factors turn perceived strain into weight changes. She is focusing on perceived chronic strain, a stressor that people react to when it is perceived as distressful. Her work looks at various sources of strain including marital, employment-based, financial, and health-related as causal for weight changes.
When Val graduated from high school, she wanted to be a farmer. She completed a year and a half of courses in elementary education, dropped out of college to join the Army Reserve, and accepted a job on a farm milking 800 cows a night. She continued her education related to her evolving interests in sustainable agriculture, animal nutrition, and growing all of her family’s vegetables and meat. She eventually enrolled in a coordinated program of dietetics, and then found that sociology might hold some of the answers about why the majority of people were unable to accomplish sustained weight loss. She graduated with double majors in dietetics and sociology from Buffalo State College. She also has a master’s degree in Sociology and a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Health Service Management and Policy from Syracuse University.
Val hopes to find a way to use her research to promote weight control. She is a member of the ADA Research, Weight Management, and Public Health/Community Nutrition (PHCN) dietetic practice groups, the American Sociological Association (ASA) Medical Sociology and Sociology of Mental Health sections, The Obesity Society (NAASO), and the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS). She has been involved with the Research DPG for several years and prior to being elected Treasurer, she served for three years as the Co-Editor of our newsletter “The Digest”. Her hobbies include raising farm animals, gardening, reading, and jogging.
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2007-08 Past-Chair:
Debra A. Krummel, PhD, RD, LD
Dr. Debra Krummel is an Endowed Professor and Millennium Scholar in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Cincinnati. She has held positions as clinical dietitian, outpatient manager, consulting dietitian, and research scientist prior to her academic appointments. She was recognized as the PennsylvaniaYoung Dietitian of the Year. She completed her undergraduate studies at the Ohio State University and Kent State University. Her dietetic internship was at Cincinnati General Hospital.
After the internship, she completed the Master of Science degree in Nutrition at Case Western Reserve University, and a PhD in Nutrition from the Pennsylvania State University. For her dissertation, she studied the relationships among endogenous sex hormones, physical activity, diet, and blood lipids in young women. She received the Huddleson Award from the American Dietetic Association for the publication resulting from this research. After receiving her doctorate, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for Cardiovascular Research, Department of Internal Medicine, at Sinai Hospital in Detroit Michigan.
More recently Dr. Krummel spent nine years in the department of Community Medicine at the West Virginia University School of Medicine. In this position she was awarded 18 grants and contracts from many sources including the American Dietetic Association, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, and the West Virginia Bureau for Public Health. From these research projects, she has published 47 papers and abstracts. She is the co-editor of four books and author of 14 book chapters. Her areas of expertise are women’s cardiovascular health, obesity prevention in postpartum women, and fetal origins of cardiovascular disease. Presently, she if funded by the NIH Office of Women’s Health to study the effects of DHA on insulin sensitivity in obese, pregnant women.
She has been very active in the American Dietetic Association. Currently, she is Vice-Chair of the Research Committee, Chair of the Sodium Work Group for the Evidence Analysis Library, and Past-Chair of the Research Dietetic Practice Group.
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2008-09 Nominating Committee Chair:
Cynthia Thomson PhD, RD
Dr. Cynthia Thomson is Associate Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences and holds a joint appointment in the College of Public Health and College of Medicine at the University of Arizona. Dr. Thomson received her Ph.D. from the Interdisciplinary Program in Nutritional Sciences, University of Arizona. In 1998, she completed an NCI-sponsored post-doctoral raining at the Arizona Cancer Center with a focus on diet measurement. She is a registered dietitian.
Dr. Thomson currently serves as the principal investigator for the Arizona site of several multi-center dietary intervention trials including the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) and the Women’s Healthy Eating and Living Study (WHEL) studies designed to test hypotheses related to the role of diet in the primary and tertiary prevention of breast cancer.Her research emphasis includes dietary intervention in breast and ovarian cancer, assessment of phytochemical exposure (ie.carotenoids, isothiocyanates, and d-limonene), and validation of dietary intake using nutritional biomarkers.
Cyndi also serves the Tucson and wider community of cancer patients through the Arizona Cancer Center Cancer Prevention and Control executive committee and the Arizona Cancer Center Scientific review Committee as well as the American Cancer Society Committee to develop guidelines for physical activity and diet for cancer survivors. Cyndi herself became a cancer survivor in 2003. This life experience has only further increased her empathy for cancer patients and their thirst for knowledge regarding the prevention of this disease. Dr. Thomson also holds interest in research related to the accurate assessment of dietary intake and is the Director of the Behavioral Measurements Shared Service at the University of Arizona.
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2008-09 Elected Members (Nominating Committee):
Dr. Judith Weber, PhD, RD (2009-2011 Chair)
Judith is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics, in the Center for Applied Research and Evaluation, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, in Little Rock, AR. Dr. Weber is an obesity researcher with interests in obesity prevention and treatment, energy balance, and dietary and physical activity assessment. She is currently Principal Investigator on a multi-site obesity preventon trial, and also on a private foundation grant, and has been P.I. or Co-P.I. on eight additional externally-funded grants over the past 10 years. Dr. Weber has published over 24 peer reviewed papers and has presented her work extensively at both national and international meetings.
Dr. Weber is an NIH, USDA, and RWJF-funded investigator with studies addressing environmental risk factors for obesity and related chronic diseases, school-, worksite-, and community-based obesity prevention interventions, and methodological issues in dietary and physical activity assessment. These studies target primarily high-risk populations, including rural, low income, low education, high minority groups. She has developed a training program for certifying individuals in anthropometic techniques for the measurement of body composition, and a model for training children in how to quantify portion sizes of foods.
She is also a member of the task force charged with operationalizing the statewide body mass index (BMI) assessments with all public school children in the state of Arkansas as a result of Legislative Act 1220 of 2003, and continues to participate in public policy reform related to childhood obesity in the state. Dr. Weber received her Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Arizona, and completed her post-doctoral training in body composition assessment in the Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, at the University of Arizona,
Teresa T. Fung, ScD, RD, LDN (2010-2011 Chair)
Dr. Fung currently is Associate Professor of Nutrition at Simmons College where she teaches courses in Medical Nutrition Therapy, nutrient metabolism, and a graduate level course in preventive nutrition. Dr. Fung received her BS and MS in nutrition from Cornell University and a Doctor of Science in both Nutrition and Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. she completed her dietetic internship at Yale-New Haven Hospital and was on staff there for a few years.
As Adjunct Associate Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, she conducts epidemiological research on dietary patterns and risk of chronic diseases with NIH-funded grants and using data from the Nurses’ Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study. She has published over 20 peer-reviewed research papers. Dr. Fung is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Nutrition.
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