By: Rebecca Scritchfield, MA, RD, ACSM Health Fitness
Specialist
ASN Blogger @ EB2011
Rafael Perez-Escamilla is Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic
Diseases); Director, Office of Community Health at Yale
School of Public Health. In addition, he currently serves as
Vice Chair of the Minority Affairs Committee (MAC) for ASN,
which hosted a symposium on health disparities among minorities
in early nutrition at EB2011.
Dr. Perez-Escamilla provided a highlight of the
symposium discussion as well as the bigger picture he
believes is creating the health disparities among minorities.
Watch his
video.
Another MAC highlight this morning was the Symposium Speakers
&
MARC Travel Awardees meet-and-greet. At this breakfast event,
the ASN MARC students competed for the DSM Nutritionals, LLC
Grand Prize for Young Minority Investigators. This is a new
competition, and Maria Dao of Tufts Univ. was thrilled
to receive the inaugural award. The research she presented
at EB 2011 is title "Hepcidin in equatorial Ecuadorians: a link
between inflammation, BMI, and iron status" and you read her
abstract online.
Rafael will assume the MAC chairmanship June 1. Outgoing chair
Kristie Lancaster has served as leader of the group since it
was created several years ago. Thank you, Rafael and Kristie, for
your commitment to ASN and the MAC!
2 Comments
Thanks to ASN for keeping minority affairs a priority.
Hmm... I wonder if there's any study on fish oil for minorities...