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Nutrition Advisors & Partners The effectiveness of the Canadian Sugar Institute's Nutrition Information Service depends on close partnership with nutrition experts and professional groups. For this reason, the Canadian Sugar Institute works collaboratively with other organization and groups to ensure a science-based approach to policy development, and the dissemination of information that relates to food, nutrition, and health in the Canadian context.
Canadian Sugar Institute Scientific Advisory Council The Canadian Sugar Institute's Nutrition Information Service is guided by a Scientific Advisory Council, a group of respected nutrition researchers from across Canada. Canadian Council of Food and Nutrition
University of Toronto Program in Food Safety, Nutrition and Regulatory Affairs
World Sugar Research Organisation
The Scientific Advisory Council members are: G. Harvey Anderson, PhD N. Theresa Glanville, PhD David D. Kitts, PhD Rena Mendelson, DSc, RD Bob Ross, PhD Huguette Turgeon O'Brien, PhD, DtP Dr. Anderson is Professor of Nutritional Sciences, Physiology and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. He is Director of the University-Industry Program in Food Safety, Nutrition and Regulatory Affairs. Dr. Anderson received his BSc (Agriculture) and MSc (Animal Nutrition) at the University of Alberta and his PhD (Nutritional Sciences) at the University of Illinois. After postdoctoral experience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he joined the University of Toronto. Dr. Anderson's research on amino acid metabolism, food selection and intake regulation, diet and behavior, infant nutrition, total parenteral nutrition, and diet and chronic disease (with emphasis on sugars and health), has led to over 250 publications and the training of more than 60 MSc and PhD students and postdoctoral fellows. His research has received continuous peer-reviewed grant support since 1970. He has received both the Borden Award (research) and the McHenry Award (leadership) from the Canadian Society for Nutritional Sciences, the Earle W. Crampton Award (McGill University) for Distinguished Service in Nutrition, the Hollington Award for outstanding teaching of medical students in their preclinical years, and the University of Toronto Alumni Faculty Award of Excellence for "outstanding academic excellence, service to University and contributions to the community". As well he has been the recipient of two Bristol Myers Squibb/Mead Johnson Nutritionals Unrestricted Awards for Nutrition Research (1985-1990 and 2001-2006). Dr. Anderson has served on several editorial boards and research grant committees and as a consultant to governments, universities and members of the food and pharmaceutical industries. He initiated and was founding Chair of the Board of the Canadian National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) and the Human Nutrition Research Council of Ontario (funds now administered by NIN). He is a Board member of the International Life Sciences Institute, Washington, D.C., the Heinz Institute of Nutritional Sciences, Pittsburgh and the Danone Institute of Canada, Montreal. He is Past-President of the Canadian Federation of Biological Societies. Dr. Glanville is Associate Professor of Nutrition in the Department of Applied Human Nutrition at Mount Saint Vincent University. Dr. Glanville obtained a PhD in Nutrition at the University of Toronto and completed post-doctoral studies in Biochemistry at Dalhousie University as a Fellow of the Medical Research Council of Canada. Dr. Glanville has extensive involvement in nutrition education and her teaching interests include clinical nutrition, metabolism, sports nutrition and research methodology. Her research interests include examining the impact of poverty on food availability in single-parent families, assessing dietary knowledge and behaviour and the relationship to nutrition education, and explicating belief systems and dietary behaviour in women with chronic illness. Dr. Glanville has participated in national consultations on food policy including food labeling, food fortification and food biotechnology. She is a Member of the Board of Directors of Dietitians of Canada and serves on the University Program Accreditation Committee of Dietitians of Canada. Dr. Kitts is Professor in the Food, Nutrition and Health program at the University of British Columbia specializing in the areas of Food Chemistry and Toxicology. Dr. Kitts obtained his BSc, MSc and PhD degrees at the University of British Columbia, specializing in the area of animal physiology and biochemistry. He was a Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) funded postdoctorate fellow (1981-1983) at the University of California Davis working in the department of Reproduction and Endocrinology on fetal metabolism and hormonal regulation of parturition. In 1983, Dr. Kitts returned to the University of British Columbia as an NSERC-funded University Research Fellow (1983-1988) to develop the field of Food Toxicology in the Food Science department. Dr. Kitts is the author of over 150 scientific publications and 20 book chapters in various areas of Food Chemistry, Nutrition and Chemical Toxicity. Dr. Kitts is presently an advisory committee member for the National Institute of Nutrition, B.C. Functional Food and Nutraceutical Network and a number of related food industry companies. Dr. Mendelson is a Professor of Nutrition in the School of Nutrition at Ryerson with a cross appointment to the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto. She obtained her undergraduate degree at the University of Western Ontario, her MSc in Nutrition at Cornell University and her DSc in Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Mendelson has taught university students at Simmons College in Boston, the University of Toronto and Ryerson University since 1974. Her publications include scientific journals as well as popular books and newsletters. She is the Principal Investigator for the Ontario Food Survey and is currently studying the Obesogenicity of Canadian communities. Dr. Mendelson Chairs the Board of the National Institute of Nutrition. Dr. Robert Ross obtained a Bachelor degree in Physical Education from McGill University, and a Master's (1988) and Ph.D in Exercise Physiology from the Université de Montréal in 1992. He is currently a Professor within the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies and the Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism at Queen's University, Canada. His research program focuses on the characterization of obesity and related co-morbid conditions, and the development of treatment strategies designed to prevent and reduce obesity and related metabolic risk factors, in particular insulin resistance. Dr. Ross is recognized internationally as a leader in the area of obesity, physical activity and metabolism and has published extensively in these and related areas. He has received the Young Investigator Award from the Canadian Society for Clinical Nutrition, a Premiere's Research Excellence Award from the province of Ontario, and was recently awarded a Research Chair at Queen's University. He is currently the Past-President of the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology, and is the Director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education in Canada. Huguette Turgeon O'Brien, PhD, RD Dr. Turgeon O'Brien is Professor of Human Nutrition and Director of the Master's and PhD studies in the Department of Food Sciences and Nutrition at Laval University. She completed her undergraduate degree at Laval University and a community nutrition internship at the Montreal Diet Dispensary. She obtained her MSc in Nutrition at the University of Montreal and her PhD in Nutrition at Laval University. Her experience includes working as a Community Nutritionist for the Montreal Diet Dispensary and the Douglas Hospital in Montreal and as a Research Assistant for the Human Nutrition Research Centre in Laval University. Dr. Turgeon O'Brien's main research interest is in the area of prenatal nutrition and iron status of different subgroups of the population. She was co-responsible for the evaluation of the Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program (CPNP) for the province of Quebec which was published in 2000. She played a key role in the development of the Health Canada document Nutrition for a Healthy Pregnancy - National Guidelines for the Childbearing Years (1999). She serves on a number of Advisory Councils and Boards and participates in different working groups reviewing Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating and Health Canada's Policies concerning the addition of vitamins and minerals to foods. Her publications include articles in scientific journals as well as popular books. |
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