Anna Maria Siega-Riz
Ph.D., Professor,
Epidemiology
Nutrition and Epidemiology
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Email: am_siegariz@unc.edu
Dr. Siega-Riz serves as program leader for the Reproductive, Perinatal and Pediatric Program in the UNC Department of Epidemiology. She has expertise in diet methodology; gestational weight gain; maternal nutritional status and its effects on birth outcomes; obesity development; and dietary trends and intakes among children and Hispanic populations. Siega-Riz uses a multidisciplinary team perspective as a way to address complex problems such as prematurity, fetal programming, racial disparities and obesity. Recipient in 2007 of the March of Dimes' Agnes Higgins Award for Maternal and Fetal Nutrition, she has served on three Institute of Medicine (IOM) committees - Reexamination of the IOM Pregnancy Weight Guidelines, Review of the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Food Packages, and Standards for Conducting Systematic Evidence- Based Reviews. She was lead investigator of the evidence-based review on outcomes of maternal weight gain sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. She presently serves as co-principal investigator for the North Carolina Center for the National Children's Study (NCS) and leads the formative research project on improving the dietary assessment protocols in the NCS. Other current co-investigator roles include the Hispanic Community Health Study, Vitamin D and preterm birth study, National Birth Defects Research and Prevention Study, and Genetic Susceptibility in the Etiology of Child Neuroblastoma. Dr. Siega-Riz earned a Bachelor of Science in Public Health in nutrition from the UNC-Chapel Hill public health school; a Master of Science degree in food, nutrition and food service management from UNC-Greensboro; and a doctorate in nutrition and epidemiology from the UNC-Chapel Hill public health school.
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