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Linda
Van Horn is a professor at Northwestern University Medical
School Department of Preventative Medicine. Since
2003 she has been editor-in-chief of the Journal of the
American Dietetic Association.
She received her
B.S. in dietetics at Purdue, doing her dietetic internship
at the Indiana University Medical School. Her Masters
degree was completed at the University of Pittsburgh, followed
by a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Health Sciences
Center, Graduate School of Public Health.
Dr. Van Horn has
been the principle investigator or co-investigator on many
major research grants, including multi-site clinical trials.
Two of these are the INTERMAP Study underway in four countries,
China, Japan, UK and the USA, with over 5000 participants
and a diet and hormone study funded by the National Cancer
Institute. In 2000 she was a co-investigator of the
Women’s Health Initiative, funded by NIH.
She is active
in the American Dietetic Association, American Heart Association,
American Cancer Association, Illinois Public Health Association,
Governor’s Council on Health and Fitness and dietetic
practice groups relevant to her areas of research.
She has many referred publications, book chapters and abstracts
of presentations and has served on numerous advisory boards
and councils, including the Panel to review national guidelines
on Detection and Treatment of Elevated Blood Lipids in Adults
(ATP III) and an Advisory Council for the National Heart,
Lung & Blood Institute.
Awards have followed
her since early in her career, including the Recognized
Young Dietitian Award of the Year by the American Dietetic
Association in 1979. She has received three Outstanding
Service Awards from ADA, 1989, 1994 & 1999. Her
teaching was honored by the Dean’s Award for Clinical
Teaching Excellence in 1999 and she received the Dannon
Institute Award for Excellence in Medical/Dental Nutrition
in 2004. Among other awards she has received are some
“different” ones, Today’s Chicago Woman:
Top 100 and the appointed Speaker to Her Royal Highness
the Princess of Wales regarding Diet and Cancer at
the Lurie Cancer Center Symposium in 1996.
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