“The impact of their work will be felt for many years to come.”
Dianne Stanton Ward, EdD, a fellow at the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP), was recently awarded the the 2016 Oded Bar-Or Award at the annual meeting of The Obesity Society, called “Obesity Week.” This award recognizes an individual selected by the Pediatric Obesity Section for contributions to pediatric obesity research and advances in the scientific understanding of etiology, prevention and treatment of obesity. Ward was recognized alongside Deborah Tate, PhD, a professor of nutrition and of health behavior at UNC that won the 2016 Pioneer Award.
Ward has worked as a principal investigator for the Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment (NAP SACC) program, a research program based at HPDP. NAP SACC promotes healthy eating and physical activity in young children in child care and preschool settings. Ward is also the head of HPDP’s Children’s Healthy Weight Research Group, which leads multiple research projects dedicated to improving the health of young children.
Elizabeth Mayer-Davis, PhD, Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of nutrition and medicine at UNC, was not short in her praise of these two women. “Both of them have collaborated extensively here at UNC, and their work has contributed substantially to the field,” Mayer-Davis said. “It is important also to recognize that both have been very much engaged in training students and fellows. The impact of their work will be felt for many years to come.”
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