Anna Maria Siega-Riz

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Anna Maria Siega-Riz is an American nutrition, maternal and child health scientist and academic administrator. She is dean of the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences. Siega-Riz was previously associate dean for research and the Jeanette Lancaster Alumni Professor of Nursing at University of Virginia School of Nursing.

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Education

Anna Maria Siega-Riz completed a Bachelors of Science in Public Health with a major in nutrition at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health in 1982. She earned a Master of Science in Food, Nutrition, and Food Service Management from University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1983. She obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in nutrition with a minor in epidemiology from Gillings School of Global Public Health in 1993. From 1994 to 1995, Siega-Riz completed postdoctoral research at the Carolina Population Center. [1]

Career

Siega-Riz joined the faculty at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health as a research assistant professor in 1995. [1] She became the associate dean for academic affairs and led the Reproductive, Perinatal, and Pediatric Program in the Department of Epidemiology. Siega-Riz is the associate dean for research and the Jeanette Lancaster Alumni Professor of Nursing at University of Virginia School of Nursing. [2]

She served on the Dietary Guidelines Federal Advisory Committee from 2013 to 2015. She also served on the advisory council of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. [2]

She was a registered dietitian from 1983 to 2014. She speaks English and Spanish. [1]

In 2019, she became a dean of the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "CV" (PDF). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  2. 1 2 "Siega-Riz, Anna Maria • University of Virginia School of Nursing". www.nursing.virginia.edu. Retrieved January 25, 2019.
  3. "UMass Amherst Names Anna Maria Siega-Riz As Dean of the School of Public Health and Health Sciences". Office of News & Media Relations | UMass Amherst. Retrieved July 2, 2020.