Steering Committee
The HERITAGE Family Study Steering Committee is composed of the five principal investigators and the Project Director. C. Bouchard serves as the Chair of the Steering Committee.
Principal Investigators |
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Claude Bouchard,
PhD Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA |
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D.C.
Rao, PhD Washington University, St. Louis, MO |
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Arthur S. Leon,
MD University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN |
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James S. Skinner,
PhD Indiana University, Bloomington, IN |
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Jack H. Wilmore, PhD Texas A&M University, College Station, TX |
Project Director |
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Tuomo Rankinen, PhD Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA Human Genomics Laboratory |
Advisory Board |
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| There also was an Advisory Board to the Steering Committee from 1992 to 2003, i.e. during the first three phases of the study. It was composed of the following members: | |
| Elizabeth Barrett-Connor
(1992-2003) University of California, San Diego, CA |
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| Jean Davignon
(1992-2003) Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, Québec |
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| Robert C. Elston
(1992-2003) Case Western Research University, Cleveland, OH |
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| William L. Haskell
(1992-2003) Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA |
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| Rudy L. Leibel
(1998-2003) Columbia University, New York, NY |
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| Eric Ravussin
(2000-2003) Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA |
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| Randy Eichner
(1992-2000) University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center |
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