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Home Page > Academics > Ethel Austin Martin Program > Faculty/Staff > Dr. Bonny Specker
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Dr. Bonny Specker
Ph.D. Epidemiology, University of Cincinnati
M.S. Epidemiology/Biostatistics, University of Cincinnati
Contact Information:
Phone: (605) 688-4645
Address:
Box 2204
EAM Building, SDSU
Brookings, SD 57007
Email: Bonny.Specker@sdstate.edu
Specialty Areas:
Nutritional Epidemiology, Pediatric Nutrition, Bone & Mineral Metabolism
Courses:
Research Methods, Nutritional Epidemiology
Research Interests:
The role of calcium in modifying bone response to physical activity in children. Factors affecting longitudinal changes in bone mass and body composition throughout life.
Dr. Bonny Specker is currently the Director and Chair of the Ethel Austin Martin Program in Human Nutrition at South Dakota State University. Prior to moving to SDSU in 1997, she was at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center where she received her Ph.D. in Epidemiology and spent 15 years in research and teaching as Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Professor of Radiology. She has published extensively in the area of bone, calcium and vitamin D metabolism, with over 120 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. She has had several NIH-funded research grants relating to calcium metabolism and bone, and is currently conducting two large NIH-funded studies in eastern South Dakota. This study, the South Dakota Rural Bone Health Study, is designed to determine bone density and later bone loss in rural populations. She is a member of the Integrative Nutrition and Metabolic Processes (INMP) Study Section at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and is a member of the Society for Pediatric Research, AMerican Society for Nutritional Sciences and the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. Her professional activities include membership on the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine's Panel on Calcium and Related Nutrients and the Committee on Body Composition, Nutrition and Health of Military Women. The IOM panel on Calcium and Related Nutrients was assigned the task of reviewing the scientific data relating to calcium requirements for the development of the new Dietary Reference Intake values for calcium. |
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