Deanna Hoelscher, PhD RD LD CNS

University of Texas School of Public Health, Austin Regional Campus
Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living
1616 Guadalupe, Suite 6.300
Austin, TX
USA 78701

Biographical Sketch: Dr. Deanna Hoelscher is Director of the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living and the John P. McGovern Professor in Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences at the Austin Regional Campus of The University of Texas School of Public Health (UTSPH) in Austin, Texas. Dr. Hoelscher’s research interests include child and adolescent nutrition, school-based health promotion programs, dietary and physical activity assessment methodology, evaluation of child obesity policies, and dissemination of school health programs. Dr. Hoelscher has been principal investigator on many research projects with child and adolescent populations, most notably the Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health (CATCH), a study to decrease cardiovascular risk factors in children; the CATCH Travis County study, an intervention to decrease child obesity; and the School Physical Activity and Nutrition (SPAN) study, a child and adolescent overweight prevalence study in Texas. Dr. Hoelscher is currently Principal Investigator of the Texas Child Obesity Prevention Policy Evaluation (T-COPPE) project together with the Texas A & M School of Rural Public Health, the Lunch is in the Bag study, a NIH-funded project to improve parent-packed lunches in daycare centers, and the CDC-funded Texas Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration project.

Papers:
4097.0 Evaluating progress of obesity prevention: What should the u.s. be doing?