1999/2000 Faculty Guest Lecture Exchange Program

Speakers List

Speakers from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

LINDA ADAIR, Professor, Department of Nutrition, UNCCH, 919/966-4449.
     Topic: Child Nutrition and Growth in the Philippines
     Topic: Stunting and Intellectual Development
     Topic: Effects of Reproductive Cycles on Maternal Nutritional Status

CRAIG D. ALBRIGHT, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition, UNCCH, 919/966-0131 (Ph), 919/966-7216 (Fax), calbright@sph.unc.edu.
     Topic: Apoptosis, Nutrient Deficiency and Gap Junctional Communication
     Topic: Apoptosis, Dietary Antioxidants and Turmanigenesis

ALICE AMMERMAN, Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, CB# 7410, UNCCH, 919/966-6082 (Ph), 919/966-3374 (Fax), alice_ammerman@unc.edu.
     Topic: Nutrition Education for Low Literacy Populations
     Topic: CVD Interventions with Underserved/Minority Groups
     Topic: Quality of Life and Dietary Change
     Topic: Nutrition Education by Physicians and Other Health Care Providers

JOHN J.B. ANDERSON, Professor, Department of Nutrition, UNCCH, 919/966-7220 (Ph), 919/966-7216 (Fax), jjb_anderson@unc.edu.
     Topic: Calcium and Phosphorus Nutrition in Health and Disease
     Topic: Phytoestrogens and Health
     Topic: Nutrition and Bone Health Through the Life Cycle

MELINDA BECK, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UNCCH, 919/966-6809.
     Topic: Effect of Dietary Antioxidants (Selenium and Vitamin E) on Infectious Disease
     Topic: Ability of a Se-deficiency to Permit a Normally Avirulent Virus to Acquire Virulence by Genetic Mutation in the Virus Genome

MARGARET BENTLEY, Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, UNCCH, 919/843-9962 (Ph), 919/966-8392 (Fax), pbentley@unc.edu.
     Topic: Infant Feeding Practices Among Urban, African-American WIC-Eligible Women

MARJORIE BUSBY, Clinical Research Nutritionist, General Clinical Research Center, UNCCH, 919/966-4746.
      Topic: Clinical Research - Conducting Human Studies Using the General Clinical Research Center as a Resource

ROSALIND COLEMAN, Professor of Nutrition and Pediatrics, Department of Nutrition, UNCCH, 919/966-7213 (Ph), 919/966-7216 (Fax), rcoleman@sph.unc.edu.
     Topic: Fat Versus Thin: Acyl-CoA Partioning in Cells
     Topic: Tocotrienols Prevent Diet-induced Atherosclerosis in apoE +/- mice

ANTHONY C. HACKNEY, Professor, Exercise Sport Science-Nutrition, UNCCH, 919/962-0334 (Ph), 919/962-0489 (Fax), thackney@med.unc.edu.
     Topic: Sickle Cell Anemia and Physical Capacity
     Topic: Thyroid Hormone Response to Environmental Stress
     Topic: Exercise and Energy Metabolism
     Topic: Steroid Hormone Regulation of Protein Metabolism
     Topic: Reproductive Dysfunctions Associated with Exercise

KRISTINE KELSEY, Clinical Scientist, Clinical Center-Study of Development & Learning, UNCCH, 919/966-5171 (Ph), 919/966-2230 (Fax), kkelsey@css.unc.edu.
     Topic: An Obesity Prevention Intervention for Preadolescent African American Girls

MARTIN KOHLMEIER, Professor, Department of Nutrition, UNCCH, 919/966-7240 (Ph), 919/966-7216 (Fax), mkohlmeier@unc.edu.
     Topic: Genetic Variation of Nutrient Requirements
     Topic: Vitamin K Status and Long-Term Health
     Topic: The Genetics of Bone Fracture Risk

MARK J. KORUDA, Associate Professor and Chief GI Surgery Service, General Surgery, UNCCH, 919/966-8436.
     Topic: Nutrition Support of the Critically Ill
     Topic: Dietary Fiber
     Topic: Nutrition and Immune Modulation

GAYLE LESTER, Research Associate Professor, Department of Orthopedics, UNCCH, 919/966-9078 (Ph), 919/966-6730 (Fax), glester@med.unc.edu.
     Topic: Osteoporosis: Risk Factors and Detection
     Topic: Bone Densitometry as a Means to Determine Bone Health
     Topic: Any Topics Related to Osteoporosis or Bone Density

STEVEN LICHTMAN, Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UNCCH, 919/966-1343 (Ph), 919/966-8641 (Fax).
     Topic: Small Bowel Bacterial Overgrowth
     Topic: Celiac Disease
     Topic: Inflammatory Bowel Disease
     Topic: TPN Cholestasis

WLODEK LOPACZYNSKI, Visiting Faculty, Department of Nutrition, UNCCH, 919/966-0245, lwlodek@sph.unc.edu.
     Topic: Cahexia, Caloric Intake and the Role of IGF-I (Insulin-like Growth Factor I) in Regulation of Cancer Growth.

ROBERT G. McMURRAY, Professor, Department of Physical Education, Exercise & Sport Science, UNCCH, 919/962-1371 (Ph), 919/962-0489 (Fax), exphy@gibbs.oit.unc.edu.
     Topic: Nutrition in Sport and Exercise - all areas
     Topic: Nutrition and Cardiovascular Disease Risk
     Topic: Children - Exercise, Nutrition and Obesity
     Topic: Exercise and Weight Loss

ANDY OLSHAN, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, UNCCH, 919/966-7424 (Ph), 919/966-2089 (Fax).
     Topic: Molecular Epidemiology of Head and Neck Cancer

MARC RHOADS, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UNCCH, 919/966-1343 (Ph), 919/966-8641 (Fax), rhoads@med.unc.edu.
     Topic: Glutamine and Intestinal Signaling Arginine
     Topic: Intestinal Cell Migration (Research)
     Topic: Chronic and Acute Diarrhea in Infants: Pathophysiology and Treatment (Clinical)

ANNA MARIA SIEGA-RIZ, Assistant Professor, Depts. Of Maternal & Child Health and Nutrition, CB# 7400, UNCCH, 919/962-8410 (CPC), 919/966-5984 (MCH), 919/966-6638 (Fax), am_siegariz@unc.edu.
     Topic: Nutrition and Pregnancy
     Topic: Iron Supplementation During Pregnancy

JUNE STEVENS, Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition & Epidemiology, UNCCH, 919/962-2756.
     Topic: Regional Distribution of Adipose Tissue: A Risk Factor for All-Cause Mortality

STEVEN H. ZEISEL,, Professor and Chairman, Department of Nutrition, UNCCH, 919/966-7218.
     Topic: Choline, An Essential Nutrient