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Senior Nutrition Scientist, contractor
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Johanna Dwyer, D.Sc., R.D., attended Cornell University for her BS, her M.S.is from the University of Wisconsin and her M.Sc. and D.Sc.are from the Harvard School of Public Health. At Tufts Medical Center), she serves as director of the Frances Stern Nutrition Center . She is a professor of medicine and community health at Tufts University School of Medicine and adjunct professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy , as well as a senior scientist at the Jean Mayer U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts. She served as an assistant administrator for human nutrition at the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (2001–2002) and has been a senior nutrition scientist (contractor) at the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), National Institutes of Health since 2003. Dr. Dwyer has served as a member of the Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. and served on ithe NAS Council.
Dr. Dwyer has written over 500 research and review articles in scientific journals and books. She has been the editor of Nutrition Today, a comprehensive review journal, since 1995. . Dr. Dwyer’s honors include membership in the National Academy of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences (elected 1998); the W.O. Atwater Award (1995); the Harvard School of Public Health Distinguished Alumnae Award (2004); the C.A. Elvehjem Award of the American Society of Nutrition (2005); fellow, American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (2012); fellow, American Society for Nutrition( 2004) Institute of Food Technologists Trailblazer Award and Lectureship (2014); the American Society for Nutrition’s Excellence in Nutrition Education Award in 2015 and 2022, and the Elaine Monsen Award of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics in 2020. She is past president of both the American Institute of Nutrition (now the American Society of Nutrition and the Society for Nutrition Education, and a fellow of both organizations. She also served in Congress as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow. She was a member of the year 2000 Dietary Guidelines Committee .Dr. Dwyer’s career has been devoted to expanding the scientific basis for clinical and public health interventions related to diet, especially in obesity, cardiovascular disease, and kidney disease, and to ensuring that public policy fosters such efforts. She agrees with the view of her mentor, Jean Mayer, the late president of Tufts University, that nutrition is not only a discipline but an agenda of problems that must be solved.