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Appendix C: Policy Advisory Sub-Committee
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NICHQ’s Childhood Obesity Action Network Policy Sub-Committee
Name Title Organization
Bettina M. Beech,
DrPH, MPH§
Associate Professor & Associate Director of Health
Disparities Research
Debbie Chang, MPH Senior Vice President & Executive Director
William Cochran,
MD, FAAP*
Barbara Dennison,
MD FAAP
Senator Dan Foster,
MD*
Elizabeth Goodman,
MD§ (Co-Chair)
LuAnn Heinen, MPP
Jessie Kimbrough-
Sugick, MD§
Madhu Mathur,
M.D., MPH§
Fernando Mendoza,
MD. MPH*
Jean Moody-
Williams, RN, MPP
Robert (Bob)
Murray, MD
Kristin Saarlas/Dave
Ross
Lisa Simpson, MB,
BCh, MPH, FAAP
(Chair)
Sylvia Stevens-
Edouard, MS
Celeste Torio, PhD,
MPH*
Joe Thompson, MD,
MPH
Maria Trent, M.D.,
MPH§
Gail Woodward-
Lopez, MPH, RD§
Vice Chairman, Janet Weis Children's Hospital
Director, Bureau of Health Risk Reduction, Division
of Chronic Disease Prevention and Adult Health
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nemours, Division of Health and Prevention
Services
AAP Liaison; Department of Pediatric
Gastroenterology and Nutrition at Geisinger Health
Systems
New York State Health Department
West Virginia State Senator (D - Kanawha) West Virginia State Legislature
Director, Child and Adolescent Obesity Program
Director, Institute on the Costs and Health Effects of
Obesity
Aetna/DSC Healthcare Disparities Fellow
Director, Founding Member
Professor & Chief, Division of Gen. Pediatrics and
Associate Dean of Minority Advising and Programs;
Board Member of the Pan American Health
Education Foundation
Division Director
Director / Professor of Pediatrics
Tufts New England Medical Center and the Floating
Hospital for Children
National Business Group on Health
The Disparities Solutions Center, Massachusetts
General Hospital
Goldstein Children’s Health Center, Stamford
Hospital’s Regional Medical Homes Support Center,
Stamford Hospital’s Childhood Obesity Task Force
Stanford University School of Medicine
Division of Quality, Evaluation, and Health
Outcomes, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services
Columbus Children’s Hospital’s Center for Healthy
Weight and Nutrition / The Ohio State University
College of Medicine
Director Public Health Informatics Institute
Professor & Director, Child Policy Research Center Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Senior Director, Children’s Health Initiative,
Medical Innovation & Leadership Division
Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Program Officer, Research and Evaluation The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Surgeon General, State of Arkansas
Director, Arkansas Center for Health Improvement
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Associate Director of the Center for Weight & Health
Arkansas Department of Health and Human
Services
John's Hopkins Children's Center at John's Hopkins
Hospital/School of Medicine
Center for Weight and Health University of
California at Berkeley
* These members joined the policy sub-committee in 2007
§ These members are part of the newly formed disparities sub-group and participated in the final review and comment of this report.
All other members have been with the sub-committee since its initial creation in 2006.