Table 1.

Conference organizing committee

Name	Affiliation
Tanya Agurs-Collins, PhD, RD	Program director/nutritionist, Health Promotion Research Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda MD
Audie Atienza, PhD	Program director, Health Promotion Research Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda MD
Carlos J. Crespo, DrPH, MS	Professor and director, School of Community Health, Portland State University, Portland OR
Lori Carter-Edwards, PhD	Duke University, Durham NC; representing AACORN
Terry Huang, PhD, MPH	Director of Pediatric Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda MD
Shiriki Kumanyika, PhD	University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA; representing AACORN
J. Michael Oakes, PhD	Professor, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN
C. Tracy Orleans, PhD	Senior scientist and distinguished fellow, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton NJ
Charlotte A. Pratt, PhD, RD	Program director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Division of Prevention and Population Studies, Bethesda MD
James F. Sallis, PhDa	Professor, San Diego State University, San Diego CA
Thomas L. Schmid, PhD	CDC, Physical Activity and Health Branch, Atlanta GA
Mary Story, PhDa	Professor, University of Minnesota. Minneapolis MN

^aCo-chair

AACORN, African American Collaborative Obesity Research Network, based at the University of Pennsylvania and directed by Vikki Lassiter, MS