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Strengths/Skills
Collaborative RDN
Promotes best in all
Candidate Bio
Contributions and Leadership Achievements
Organization | Position | Term | Contribution |
National Nutrient Databank Conference | Chair | 2020-2022 | Served as the lead contact for the NNDC 2022 planning, organizing, and directing its activities for this internationally attended food composition database meeting. |
AND Research Dietetics Practice Group, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics | Chair | 2020-2021 | Organized, planed and developed activities for the RDPG and oversaw its functioning in cooperation with the Executive Committee and Academy manager leadership. Served on various RDPG Committees (e.g., Pilot Grant reviewer; Best First Author Publication Award Reviewer) as appropriate. |
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation (ANDF) | Scholarship Committee Member | 2018 - current | Reviewed over 60 ANDF scholarship applications per year, ANDF issues over 100 awards in total to undergraduates, dietetic internships, Masters, and Doctoral students. |
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics | Council on Research, Research Priorities Task Force Member | 2018 - 2019 | This Task Force team developed and published the AND research priorities for Academy members. |
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics | Faculty Project Grant Award Review Committee Member | 2017 | This team reviewed and recommended applications for faculty members' RDPG grants program. |
Employment
Employer | Title | Years | Location |
National Cancer Institute, NIH | Program Director & Project Officer | 18 | Rockville, Maryland |
Center for Scientific Review | Scientific Review Administrator (Training) | 1 | Rockville, Maryland |
Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons | Associate Research Scientist | 4 | New York, New York |
Practice Areas
Years in Practice Area:
Approximate number of years as a member of this DPG/MIG": 28
Honors and Awards
Organization | Award | Year | Contribution |
National Cancer Institute, NIH | Director's Award | 2024 | Cancer Moonshot Scholars program (CMSp) Team co-authoring this diverse training Request for Applications providing unique opportunities to DEI candidates working in oncology. |
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics | Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (FAND) | 2017 | Oncology nutrition research, multi-disciplinary original research publications, national and international invited presentations, and service to the AND DPGs, and programs. |
University of Cincinnati, College of Allied Health Sciences | Distinguished Alumni Award | 2013 | Outstanding contributions to the field of nutrition and dietetics through applied practice, original research and national and international dissemination of those findings to improve health and reduce disease risks i the US and globally. |
National Institutes of Health | Award of Merit | 2014 | Developed, planned, organized the 2014 Trans-NIH Angiogenesis Workshop Team to discuss opportunities and strategies to alter blood vessel growth and current therapeutics across diseases (Cardiovascular, Eye, Diabetes & Cancer). |
National Institutes of Health | Award of Merit | 2009 | Scientific and clinical work efforts supporting the NCI John Milner Nutrition Practicum advancing oncology nutrition research & practice among diverse stakeholders (Nutrition/dietetics professionals, physicians, and nutrition researchers, |