Lypo-Pop Team:

    Team Leader: Daniel C.
 

    Editors:Michael L., Brian A., Scott B., and Daniel C.
 

    E-Mail Coordinators: Michael L. and Daniel C.
 

    Researchers:Michael L., Brian A., Scott B., and Daniel C.
 

    Web Coordinators: Scott B. and Daniel C.

    Teacher:Mrs. Powers

Technical Advisor:

Barbara J. Moore Ph.D.-Since 1995, Dr. Moore has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Shape Up America!, a national campaign founded by former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop in 1994.  The mission of Shape Up America! is to provide science-based information to the public, health care professionals, educators, policymakers and the media on healthy weight management achieved through healthy eating and increased physical activity.  Shape Up America! is working to raise awareness that obesity is a health issue and healthy weight management reduces illness, saves money and lives.  Obesity is the second leading cause of preventable death, responsible for 300,000 deaths in the United States annually.

In 2003, the Institute of Medicine in Washington DC appointed Dr. Moore to serve on its committee to develop an “Action Plan to Prevent Obesity in Children and Youth.”  This is her second appointment by the Institute of Medicine, having served since 1999 on a sub-committee to address the growing problem of weight management in the U.S. armed forces.

Dr. Moore’s media appearances include Good Morning America, Today, Jim Lehrer News Hour, BBC radio, C-Span, Diane Rehm Show, Talk of the Nation, Public Interest and numerous other print and broadcast media including the Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, and many business, general interest and women’s magazines.  She maintains an active membership in the American Society for Clinical Nutrition, the American Society for Nutritional Sciences, the North American Association for the Study of Obesity, the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior, and Sigma Xi.

From 1989 to 1993, Dr. Moore was chief nutritionist and primary technical policy advisor worldwide for Weight Watchers International, owned at that time, by H.J. Heinz.  She worked on technical issues with regulatory agencies at the federal, state, and local level in both the United States and Canada.  In this position she began to acquire her training and experience as technical spokesperson in the print and broadcast media, on Capitol Hill and at the state legislative level.

Dr. Moore joined the Executive Office of the President within the Science Division of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in 1993 where she was involved in the process of policy formation and budgetary support of fundamental scientific research.  She returned to OSTP in 1995 where she served as Chief of Staff in the National Security and International Science Division.

In 1994, Dr. Moore joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Division of Nutrition Research Coordination (DNRC).  The DNRC serves as the nutrition research coordinating unit within the NIH and is responsible for providing guidance on nutrition policy and dietary guidance materials promulgated by the federal government.  In this position, Dr. Moore focused on the development of the 1994 Progress Report to the Assistant Secretary of Health on the nutrition objectives of Healthy People 2000.  She also sat on the Interagency Board for Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research (IBNMRR) and the Nutrition Policy Board.  She was a key organizer of the national forum, “Health, Safety, and Food for America,” sponsored by the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).

Dr. Moore holds a B.A. from Skidmore College, a master’s and doctorate in nutrition from the Institute for Human Nutrition at Columbia University.  Her postdoctoral training was at the University of California at Davis.  She was appointed Henry Rutgers Fellow at Rutgers University, where she held a tenure track position in the Department of Nutritional Sciences.  She has an unusual breadth of experience in academia, private industry, government and the not-for-profit sectors.

E-mail: barbara.moore@worldnet.att.net
 
 

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