MOVERS AND SHAKERS

We note with pleasure that Nutrition Today Editorial Board Mary Story PhD was named as one of the most distinguished woman scientists worldwide in a recent list published by http://Research.com. Several other authors of recent articles in Nutrition Today also made the list. Congratulations, ladies!

The National Academy of Medicine's Annual Meeting in October 2022 included a celebration of the induction of several members and announcement of new members with nutrition expertise over the Covid 19 years when the meeting was suspended. They include Nutrition Today Editorial Board member Regan Bailey PhD, MPH of Texas A and M, Jamy Ard MD of Wake Forest University, where he works on obesity, who were elected in prior years. Among the newly elected members with nutrition expertise is Michelle Kay McGuire, PhD, director and professor, Margaret Ritchie School of Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow. She is an internationally renowned expert on maternal, dietary, and environmental factors influencing human milk composition. Her research on the milk microbiome changed the paradigm of human milk sterility, with direct implications to maternal and infant health and well-being. She has been a leader in the global effort to provide evidence-based breastfeeding recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Another international nutrition mover and shaker who was elected is Wafaie Fawzi, MBBS, DrPH. He is the Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Sciences and professor of nutrition, epidemiology, and global health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston. He was elected for making outstanding contributions to advancing the science of safety and efficacy of nutritional interventions in the prevention and management of major global health threats, for spurring translation of evidence into policy and programs, and for leading major efforts to train future public health leaders.