HFHL Internal Advisory Board & Executive Committee

Sara Axtell, PhD, Community-Campus Health Outreach Liaison (Extension)

Jeff Bender, DVM, Assoc Professor of Veterinary Public Health, Director of the Center for Animal Health and Food Safety (CVM)

David A. Bernlohr, PhD, Distinguished McKnight Prof and Head, BMBB (Medicine/CBS)

Charles Billington, MD, Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology), Director of the VAMC obesity program, and Associate Director of the Minnesota Obesity Center (Medicine)

Vince Fritz, PhD, Professor, Horticultural Science, Southern Research and Outreach Center, Waseca (CFANS)

Daniel D. Gallaher, PhD, Professor of Nutrition, FScN (CFANS)

Gary G. Gardner, PhD, Professor, Horticultural Science (CFANS)

Craig Hedberg, PhD, Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences (SPH)

Richard Isaacson, PhD, Professor Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences (CVM)

Robert W. Jeffery, PhD, Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health (SPH) and
Director, UMN Obesity Prevention Center (AHC)

James Johnson, MD, Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases and Intl Medicine) (Medicine)

Shaun Kennedy, Assistant Professor of Veterinary Population Medicine, Director of the National Center for Food Protection and Defense, and Director of Partnerships and External Relations, College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM)

Robert King PhD, Professor of Applied Economics (CFANS)

Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, Director, Center for Spirituality and Healing (AHC)

Alex J. Lange, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine and BMBB (Medicine/CBS)

Theodore Labuza, PhD, Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Food Science and Engineering (Food Science and Nutrition)

Susie Nanney, PhD, RD, Assistant Prof of Family Medicine and Community Healthy (Medicine)

Melissa Nelson Laska, PhD, Assistant Prof Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health

Marla M. Reicks, PhD, RD, Professor and Extension Nutritionist, FScN (Extension/CFANS)

Carl Rosen, PhD., Professor Soil, Water, and Climate/Horticultural Sci Extension Nutritionist, FScN (Extension/CFANS)

C. Ford Runge, PhD, Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Applied Economics (CFANS)

Sarah Jane Schwarzenberg, MD, Associate Professor and Director of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Dept. of Pediatrics (Medicine)

Randy Singer, DVM, PhD, Assoc Prof of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences (CVM)

Jamie Stang, PhD, MPH, RD, Asst Prof, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health (SPH)

Mary Story, PhD, RD, Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health (SPH)

 

Executive Committee

Sara Axtell (Extension)
Charlie Billington (Medicine)
Gary Gardner (CFANS)
Dick Isaacson (CVM)
Robert King (CFANS)
Alex Lange (BMBB)
Melissa Nelson Laska (SPH)

 

BMBB= Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics
CFANS=College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences
CVM=College of Veterinary Medicine
FScN= Food Science and Nutrition
SPH=School of Public Health