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USDA Beltsville Area Distinquished Lecture Series

"A Three-Dimensional View of Nutrition Today: Research, Policy, and Consumer Expectations"

Allison A. Yates

 

Allison A. Yates

Director of the Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center

Building 003 Auditorium
December 11, 2006
10:30 AM



Dr. Yates received a BS in Dietetics and an MS in Public Health from UCLA, and she is a Registered Dietitian. She received her PhD in Nutrition from the University of California, Berkeley. Her professional experience is quite broad, beginning with work as a dietitian and public health nutritionist.

She served as the Director of the Coordinated Undergraduate Program in Dietetics at Berkeley, and then moved to the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, where she helped initiate the program in Nutrition and Dietetics. She served as the Administrative Dean of Steed College, in Johnson City, TN, and Director of the Graduate Program in Nutrition at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. In 1988, she was appointed founding Dean of the new College of Health and Human Sciences at the University of Southern Mississippi after serving as Assistant Dean and Acting Dean of the School of Home Economics there.

From 1994 to 2004, Dr. Yates served as Director of the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences. While at the Food and Nutrition Board, Dr. Yates led the expanded approach to establishing human requirements and recommendations for nutrients (RDAs) that now includes other reference values and is thus termed Dietary Reference Intakes. She also served as study director for a Congressionally mandated study on how to improve the food safety system in the US, and at the request of FDA, directed a study to design a framework for evaluating the safety of dietary supplements.

From 2004-2006, Dr. Yates served as Director of Nutritional Sciences at ENVIRON Health Sciences Institute in Arlington, VA. She was appointed Director, Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center (BHNRC) in February 2006.