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Michael E. Speer, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Editor

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Managing Editor

Chad Smalley
Editorial Assistant

Lisa M. Adcock, MD
Gerardo Cabrera-Meza, MD
Dawn Dorsey
Kenneth Due
Joseph A. Garcia-Prats, MD
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Leonard E. Weisman, MD

Spotlight

Diane Anderson, PhD, RD, CSP
Associate Professor of Pediatrics—Neonatology

In the year 2000, Diane Anderson, PhD, RD, joined the staff at Baylor College of Medicine as Associate Professor of Pediatrics. In the past four years, drawing on her strong background in neonatal nutrition, Dr. Anderson has grown the Baylor neonatal nutrition team and strengthened its role overall in the multidisciplinary care approach to patient care.

Dr. Anderson's early training started with her Bachelor of Science degree in nutrition from Bowling Green State University and her graduate nutrition degrees from Case Western Reserve University. Her professional career in neonatal nutrition began at Case Western where she worked with William B. Pittard, III, MD, MPH, Project Director of the Neonatal Nutrition Training Program, which consisted of

an annual conference for physicians and health care providers of high-risk infants,
a graduate neonatal nutrition course, and
a newly developed one-week practicum for nutritionists working in the NICU

In 1988, Drs. Pittard and Anderson established the Neonatal Nutrition Training Center at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. At that time, a three-month Neonatal Nutrition Fellowship was added. A strong public health component evolved with input and teaching opportunities provided from South Carolina public health nutritionists.

That experience was applied to her position at Baylor where she presently is Director of the Neonatal Nutrition Service and the Project Director of the Leadership Excellence in Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Nutrition Training Grant. Graduates of the Baylor neonatal nutrition training program have taken positions in NICUs, academic settings, and other positions related to maternal child health around the world.

Dr. Anderson has been an invited author for reviews on neonatal nutrition management and continues to be active in the American Dietetic Association (ADA) and the Commission of Dietetic Registration in various elected and appointed positions. The ADA recognized her in 2002 with the Excellence in Practice–Dietetic Education Award.

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Created: October 11, 2004
Last update: October 11, 2004
Last modified: September 7, 2006

Spotlight

Diane Anderson, PhD, RD, CSP Associate Professor of Pediatrics—Neonatology

Diane Anderson, PhD, RD, CSP
Associate Professor of Pediatrics—Neonatology