MOVERS AND SHAKERS
New Members of ILSI Board of Trustees
At its annual meeting in January 2016, ILSI North America (ILSI NA), new members of the Board of Trustees were elected. They include the following: Steve Rizk, PhD, Mars, Inc, president of the Board, who took the helm from Dr. Rhona Appelbaum, prior president, who has retired from Coca-Cola. Other officers elected were Frank Sabella, Mondelez International Vice President; and Richard Lane, PhD, PepsiCo Inc, Secretary/Treasurer of the Board. The following individuals were elected as new members of the executive committee: Stephanie Atkinson, PhD, McMaster University; Kathryn Boor, PhD, Cornell University; and Kerr Dow, PhD, Cargill Inc. Also elected to the Board were Connie Avramis, Unilever; Michael McBurney, PhD, DSM Nutritionals, Margaret Creedon, Abbott Nutrition; Arti Arora, The Coca-Cola Company; Michael Doyle, PhD, University of Georgia; Andrew Maynard, PhD, Arizona State University; Gabriella Parisse, Tate and Lyle; Stella Volpe, PhD, Drexel University; Elizabeth Westrring, PhD, General Mills; and Tracey Reynolds, PhD, Monsanto. Congratulations to all!
Movers and Shakers
In addition, ILSI NA also honored 2 individuals with their Movers and Shakers Award for outstanding work as a volunteer. They are Paul Hanlon, PhD, who is associate director of Regulatory Affairs at Abbott Nutrition, and Kristin Rubin, PhD, who led the Kraft Heinz Company's North American nutrition team.
Special recognitions were also given at ILSI to 4 individuals for their work on various committees as advisors. They were Elizabeth Johnson, PhD, of Tufts University, and John Sievenpiper, MD, PhD, of the Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Two other committee members were also honored: Christine Pelkman, PhD, of Campbell soup, and Kari Ryan, PhD, former director of Scientific, Nutrition, and Regulatory Affairs for Kraft Foods Group.
ILSI Future Leader Awardees
Katherine Bauer, PhD, MS, of the University of Michigan, was the first awardee this year. She is studying the role of families in child and adolescent obesity, including a study exploring nutritional and metabolomics pathways linking chronic stress and childhood obesity.
Benjamin Willing PhD, the second awardee, is an assistant professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Alberta in Canada. His current work involved establishing the causal beneficial role of microbes in diet-microbe host interactions in metabolic disease.
ILSI Life Sciences Institute Global Activities
Several new members also joined the ILSI Life Sciences Institute, which is the governing body for global activities in ILSI. They Include Tracey Reynolds, PhD, Monsanto; Connie Weaver, PhD, Purdue University; and Elizabeth Westring, PhD, General Mills. In addition to these individuals, the following were also elected: Mr Geoff Smith of Asia Pacific; Prof Gerhard Rechkemmer of Europe/Africa; Dr Scott Belanger, Dr Ernie Harpur, Dr Serrine Lau, and Dr Tim Pastoor of the Health and Environmental Science Institute; Dr Teruo Miyazawa of Asia Pacific North ILSI; Dr Tracey Reynolds of ILSI NA; and Dr Josette Lewis and Ivonne Rietjens of the ILSI Research Foundation.
Young Investigators Awarded Grants During Clinical Nutrition Week
Every year at Clinical Nutrition Week, the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) Rhoads Research Foundation recognizes emerging investigators and awards them with research grants. It is the hope of the foundation that with the grant, these individuals will have an opportunity to leverage this experience when moving on to seek larger grants. Congratulations to the 2016 ASPEN Rhoads Research Foundation Grantees:
* Gregory Guthrie, PhD, US Department of Administration Children's Nutrition Research Center, Houston, Texas
* Jayshil Patel, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
* Kate Walton, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
* Darla Shores, MD, Johns Hopkins Children's Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland
* Adam Kuchnia, MS, RD, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota
* Robert Bandsma, MD, PhD, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
Best of luck to all these outstanding investigators in the next year and in their careers in clinical nutrition research!
IN MEMORIAM
Mary Ellen Collins
Nutrition Today notes with sadness the death of Mary Ellen Collins, MS, EdD, RD, long-time director of dietetics and nutrition and of the dietetic internship at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, until her retirement in 1998. She was well known for her interest in public health and community nutrition as well as dietetics and medical nutrition therapy in acute care settings. She was active for many years in the American Dietetic Association and received several awards for her service to the dietetics profession. Mary Ellen received her bachelor's degree from Framingham State University and her master's degree from Tufts University. She was a key staff member of the White House Council on Food, Nutrition, and Health of 1969. She also served as a Winston Churchill Fellow at the University of London and a World Health Organization Fellow in New Zealand and Thailand.
BOOKS RECEIVED
Food Policy: Looking Forward From the Past, Janel Obenchain, Arlene Spark
CB Publisher, August 26, 2015
ISBN 9781439880241
CALENDAR
Clinical Nutrition Management Symposium
April 16-19, 2016
Austin, Texas
http://www.cnmdpg.org/page/2016-symposium
Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting
March 30-April 2, 2015
Washington, DC
http://www.sbm.org/
National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings
April 27-May 1, 2016
Boston, Massachusetts
http://www.kidney.org/spring-clinical
10th Congress of the International Society of Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics
May 22-26, 2016
Tel Aviv, Israel
http://www.ortra.com/events/isnn2016/Home.aspx
College of Sports Medicine Annual Conference
May 31-June 4, 2016
Boston, Massachusetts
http://www.acsm.org/-annual-meeting
International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity
June 8-11, 2016
Cape Town, South Africa
https://www.isbnpa.org/index.php?r=annualMeeting/index&year=2016
IFT Annual Meeting
July 16-19, 2015
Chicago, Illinois
http://www.ift.org
Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior Annual Meeting
July 30-August 2, 2016
San Diego, California
http://www.sneb.org/