History of Nutrition Committee
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
10:30 AM–12:30 PM
Chairs
David H. Alpers, MD, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Dennis Bier, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Presentations
- Historical role of epidemiology in identifying essential nutrients. Kenneth Carpenter, PhD, University of California-Berkeley, CA
- Role of epidemiology in decision making for food fortification: Vitamin D to folic acid. Don McCormick, PhD, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
- Role of Epidemiology in identification of foods and nutrients that influence the risk of cancer. Anthony B. Miller, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevance of nutritional npidemiology in the 21st century. Paul Jacques, ScD, USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, MA