Alexandra Adams, MD, PhD is currently practicing at The University of Wisconsin Pediatric Fitness Clinic in Madison. Her special interests include pediatric nutritional problems, obesity, metabolic syndrome and indigenous diets and health. Over the past several years she has worked in partnership with three Wisconsin Tribes and the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council Epi-Center on a variety of projects to examine and reduce the prevalence of pediatric obesity to prevent cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Among her most recent projects, she is working on a family based intervention project to reduce obesity and cardiac risk factors in American Indian children: Healthy Children, Strong Families (HCSF). Dr. Adams is an active member of the Governor's Council for Physical Fitness and Health and of WIPAN, the statewide public health organization working for healthy lifestyles in Wisconsin.
Caitlin Baker (Muscogee Creek), a competitive swimmer and head of her own outreach program, CAITLINB (Competitive American Indians Turning Lifestyles into New Beginnings), is 14 years old and lives in Oklahoma. As part of her program she promotes swimming, sports participation, and healthy lifestyles for American Indian youth. Among her many honors, she was inducted into the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame in 2008 for her work with Native youth. Ms. Baker was also profiled on The Today Show for her work. Through her program she has reached out to Native youth throughout the country. As she notes in her mission statement for CAITLINB: "Every child needs to be told to believe that they can achieve greatness. This is the goal of my outreach program. To be the voice that sends that message to minority youth."
Ann Bullock, MD (Minnesota Chippewa) is physician for the Cherokee Health and Medical Division for the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in Cherokee, NC and has been its Medical Director since 2000. Dr. Bullock has overseen the diabetes program for the Eastern Band since 1994 and serves as an advisor to the I.H.S. Division of Diabetes Treatment and Prevention. She has written and speaks nationally on the connection of stress and trauma to diabetes.
Dennis Styne, MD is professor of pediatrics and holds the Rumsey chair of pediatric endocrinology at the University of California, Davis. One of his major areas of interest and clinical research is childhood obesity. Using activity, education, and pharmaceutical therapy, he studies children in his Fit-Kid Weight Management Clinic, evaluating the best methods of assessment and treatment of obesity and its comorbidities. He also has an outreach program to Northern California Indian Rancherias that combines education for local health workers and telehealth communication between the UC Davis Medical Center-based children's weight management team and the families. Dr. Styne has received many honors over the course of his career and has published extensively on obesity as well as other areas of research related to pediatric endocrinology.
Scott Going, PhD is an associate professor of exercise physiology with the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Arizona. Dr. Going is involved in a wide diversity of projects related to the impact of exercise. Of his more recent work, he has investigated the effects of chronic exercise versus hormone replacement therapy on bone, soft tissue composition and muscle strength in postmenopausal women, and the role of exercise in obesity prevention in children. He is an expert in models and methods for assessment of changes in body composition during growth and with aging. His published works reflect these and other interests including work with elite athletes, eating and physical activity among American Indian children, and cardiovascular risk factors in lean and obese children and adolescents.
Kelly Moore, MD (Creek) is a Captain in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and a Clinical Consultant with the Indian Health Service (I.H.S.) Division of Diabetes Treatment and Prevention in Albuquerque, New Mexico. With more than 17 years of experience in the I.H.S. in American Indian communities in Montana, Utah, Arizona, and Washington, she also serves as the Association of American Indian Physicians liaison member on the Committee on Native American Child Health of the American Academy of Pediatrics. As a member of the American Diabetes Association Youth Projects Design Team, the National Institutes of Health Diabetes Education in Tribal Schools Steering Committee, and the American Indian/Alaska Native Workgroup of the National Diabetes Education Program, Dr. Moore also has helped develop educational and health communication materials for American Indian/Alaska Natives.
Gregory Norman, PhD is Assistant Adjunct Professor at the University of California at San Diego, Family and Preventive Medicine. Dr. Norman has written on a broad area of health issues including health promotion interventions through Internet and primary care, physical activity, smoking cessation, theories of health behavior change, and the use of objective instruments in assessing physical activity.
James Sallis, PhD is a professor in the Department of Psychology and adjunct professor in the Department of Pediatrics at San Diego State University. From 2001, when he was awarded a planning grant until the present, Dr. Sallis has been the head of the National Office for Active Living Research, a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The program contributes to the prevention of childhood obesity in low-income and high-risk racial/ethnic communities by supporting research to examine how environments and policies influence active living for children and their families. Dr. Sallis's other current projects include the Neighborhood Quality of Life Study, which addresses physical activity among adults and seniors and the Neighborhood Impact on Kids Project, which looks at the effect neighborhoods have on the health of children. In all, his work and publications reflect a detailed study of the psychological and social effects impinging and supporting physical activity.
Stewart Trost, PhD is associate professor of physical activity and public health in the Department of Kinesiology and Community Health Institute at Kansas State University. His major research interests include: measurement of physical activity, psychosocial and environmental determinants of physical activity behavior, and prevention and treatment of childhood obesity. Dr. Trost has been the lead investigator or member of a team of investigators on several grants that address or provide intervention programs on physical activity and childhood obesity both in the U.S. and internationally. Along with colleagues, he is currently working on, among other areas, healthy out of school club places for obesity prevention and childhood predictors of adolescent girls' physical activity. Dr. Trost's list of publications in the area of physical activity and physical activity measurements are numerous and often cited.
