Siega-Riz promoted to professor of nutrition and epidemiology
| August 20, 2009 | |
Dr. Siega-Riz
Anna Maria Siega-Riz, PhD, has been promoted to the rank of professor in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health’s departments of epidemiology and nutrition, the School has announced. The promotion was effective Aug. 1. Siega-Riz has been a member of the UNC public health faculty since 1998, when she was appointed assistant professor of maternal and child health. In 2003, she was appointed associate professor of maternal and child health and nutrition and was named associate professor of nutrition and epidemiology in 2006. In 2008, she became associate chair of the epidemiology department. “The Department of Epidemiology is very proud of the promotion of Anna Maria,” said Andrew Olshan, PhD, professor and chair. “She is a very talented researcher, teacher and administrator.” She has been a fellow at the Carolina Population Center since 1995. Siega-Riz has served on two National Academy of Sciences/Institute of Medicine committees – to provide guidance about the federal Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program and determine guidelines for weight gain during pregnancy. She has held leadership roles in a number of prestigious societies, including acting president of the Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology and governing council member for the American Public Health Association. In November 2007, she received the March of Dimes’ Agnes Higgins Award for outstanding achievement in the field of maternal-fetal nutrition. # # # UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health contact: Ramona DuBose, director of communications, (919) 966-7467 or ramona_dubose@unc.edu. |
