Dietary Reference Intakes: A Risk Assessment Model for Establishing Upper Intake Levels for Nutrients (1998)
Chapter: Front Matter
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SUBCOMMITTEE ON UPPER REFERENCE LEVELS OF NUTRIENTS
IAN C. MUNRO (Chair),
CanTox, Incorporated, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
WALTER MERTZ, Retired,
Human Nutrition Research Center, Rockville, Maryland
RITA B. MESSING,
Division of Environmental Health, Minnesota Department of Health, St. Paul
SANFORD A. MILLER,
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio
SUZANNE P. MURPHY,
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
JOSEPH V. RODRICKS,
ENVIRON Corporation, Arlington, Virginia
IRWIN H. ROSENBERG,
Clinical Nutrition Division, USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University and New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
STEVE L. TAYLOR,
Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
ROBERT H. WASSERMAN,
Department of Physiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Consultant
HERBERT BLUMENTHAL, Retired,
Food and Drug Administration, Washington, DC
Staff
SANDRA A. SCHLICKER, Study Director
ELISABETH A. REESE, Research Associate
GERALDINE KENNEDO, Project Assistant
PANEL ON CALCIUM AND RELATED NUTRIENTS
STEPHANIE A. ATKINSON (Chair),
Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
STEVEN A. ABRAMS,
Department of Pediatrics, USDA Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
BESS DAWSON-HUGHES,
Calcium and Bone Metabolism Laboratory, USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts
ROBERT P. HEANEY,
Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska
MICHAEL F. HOLICK,
Endocrinology, Nutrition and Diabetes Section and Vitamin D, Skin, and Bone Research Laboratory, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Massachusetts
SUZANNE P. MURPHY,
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
ROBERT K. RUDE,
Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
BONNY L. SPECKER,
Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati and Children's Hospital Medical Center, Ohio
CONNIE M. WEAVER,
Department of Food and Nutrition, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
GARY M. WHITFORD,
Department of Oral Biology and Physiology, School of Dentistry, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta
Staff
SANDRA A. SCHLICKER, Study Director
ELISABETH A. REESE, Research Associate
ALICE L. KULIK, Research Associate
GERALDINE KENNEDO, Project Assistant
GAIL E. SPEARS, Administrative Assistant
PANEL ON FOLATE, OTHER B VITAMINS, AND CHOLINE
ROY M. PITKIN (Chair),
Obstetrics & Gynecology, Los Angeles, California
LINDSAY H. ALLEN,
Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis
LYNN B. BAILEY,
Food Science and Human Nutrition Department, University of Florida, Gainesville
MERTON BERNFIELD,
Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
PHILLIPE De WALS,
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
RALPH GREEN,
Department of Pathology, University of California at Davis Medical Center, Sacramento
DONALD B. McCORMICK,
Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
ROBERT M. RUSSELL,
Department of Medicine and Nutrition, USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts
BARRY SHANE,
Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
STEVEN ZEISEL,
Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina School of Public Health and School of Medicine, Chapel Hill
IRWIN H. ROSENBERG,
(Liaison from the Subcommittee on Upper Reference Levels of Nutrients), Clinical Nutrition Division, USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University and New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Staff
CAROL W. SUITOR, Study Director
ELISABETH A. REESE, Research Associate
ALICE L. KULIK, Research Associate
MICHELE RAMSEY, Project Assistant
STANDING COMMITTEE ON THE SCIENTIFIC EVALUATION OF DIETARY REFERENCE INTAKES
VERNON R. YOUNG (Chair),
Laboratory of Human Nutrition, School of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
JOHN W. ERDMAN, JR. (Vice Chair),
Division of Nutritional Sciences, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
JANET C. KING (Vice Chair),
USDA Western Human Nutrition Research Center, Presidio of San Francisco, California
LINDSAY H. ALLEN,
Department of Nutrition, University of California at Davis
STEPHANIE A. ATKINSON,
Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
JOHANNA T. DWYER,
Frances Stern Nutrition Center, New England Medical Center and Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts
JOHN D. FERNSTROM,
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania
SCOTT M. GRUNDY,
Center for Human Nutrition, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
CHARLES H. HENNEKENS,
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
SANFORD A. MILLER,
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio U.S. Government Liaison
LINDA MEYERS,
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, US Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC Canadian Government Liaison
PETER W.F. FISCHER,
Nutrition Research Division, Health Protection Branch, Health Canada, Ottawa
Staff
ALLISON A. YATES, Study Director
GERALDINE KENNEDO, Project Assistant
GAIL E. SPEARS, Administrative Assistant
FOOD AND NUTRITION BOARD
CUTBERTO GARZA (Chair),
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
JOHN W. ERDMAN, JR. (Vice Chair),
Division of Nutritional Sciences, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
LINDSAY H. ALLEN,
Department of Nutrition, University of California at Davis
BENJAMIN CABALLERO,
Center for Human Nutrition, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
FERGUS M. CLYDESDALE,
Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
ROBERT J. COUSINS,
Center for Nutritional Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville
JOHANNA T. DWYER,
Frances Stern Nutrition Center, New England Medical Center and Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts
SCOTT M. GRUNDY,
Center for Human Nutrition, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
CHARLES H. HENNEKENS,
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
SANFORD A. MILLER,
Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio
ROSS L. PRENTICE,
Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington
A. CATHARINE ROSS,
Department of Veterinary Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park
ROBERT E. SMITH,
R.E. Smith Consulting, Newport, Vermont
VIRGINIA A. STALLINGS,
Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
VERNON R. YOUNG,
Laboratory of Human Nutrition, School of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Staff
ALLISON A. YATES, Study Director
GAIL E. SPEARS, Administrative Assistant
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