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About Program Staff Mary Story, Ph.D., R.D.
About Program Staff Mary Story, Ph.D., R.D.
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 Mary Story Ph.D., R.D. Program Director
Dr. Story is a professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Community Health and Associate Dean for Student Life and Leadership at the University of Minnesota, School of Public Health. She is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, at the University of Minnesota. She is the Director of the RWJF Healthy Eating Research program. Dr. Story has her Ph.D. in Nutrition and her interests are in the area of child and adolescent nutrition and obesity prevention. Her research focuses on understanding the multiple factors related to eating behaviors of youth, and environmental, community and school-based interventions for obesity prevention, healthy eating and physical activity. She has published widely in the area of child and adolescent nutrition and obesity. She is currently on the editorial boards for the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, Journal of Adolescent Health and Nutrition Today. She was a member of the Institute of Medicine committees on food marketing and the diets of children, the Nutrition Standards for Foods in Schools and is currently on the Institute of Medicine committee on Childhood Obesity Prevention.
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