Wild Blueberry Research Summit — Continuing
Nutrition Research
The Bar Harbor Group
Focusing on the promise of Wild Blueberries and their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects.
Since 1998, leading U.S. and Canadian researchers who are active in the fields of neuroscience, aging, cardiovascular disease, cancer, eye health and other health-related areas have met annually in Bar Harbor, Maine, at the Wild Blueberry Research Summit. The scientists, known collectively as “The Bar Harbor Group,” meet to share their research findings and to explore opportunities for future collaboration. In the years since the Summit began, research interest in Wild Blueberries has grown steadily. Focus on the fruit’s antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects remains strong, while new areas of investigation are opening up, including childhood obesity and the impact of children’s diets in the prevention of disease as well as longevity.
The Bar Harbor Group
Britt Burton-Freeman, Ph.D.
Ctr for Nutrition Research Institute
For Food Safety and Health
Illinois Institute of Technology
William Cefalu, M.D.
Joint Program on Diabetes,
Endocrinology and Metabolism,
PBRC & LSUHSC
School of Medicine
Vivian Chi-Hua Wu, Ph.D.
Department of Food Science and
Human Nutrition
University of Maine
Dave Yarborough, Ph.D.
Coop. Extension
University of Maine
Barbara Shukitt-Hale, Ph.D.
Neuroscience Laboratory
USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
Boston, MA
Ronald Prior, Ph.D.
USDA-ARS
Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center
Mary Ellen Camire, Ph.D.
Dept. of Food Science and Human Nutrition
University of Maine, Orono
Dan Nadeau, M.D.
HealthReach Diabetes, Endocrine & Nutrition Center of Exeter Hospital
Susan B. Davis, M.S., R.D.
Nutrition Advisor
Wild Blueberry Association of North America
Dorothy Klimis-Zakas, Ph.D.
Professor of Clinical Nutrition
University of Maine, Orono
Catherine Champagne, RD. Ph.D
Nutritional Epidemiology/Dietary Assessment and Counseling
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Jess D. Reed, Ph.D
Department of Animal Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ana Maria Rodrigues-Mateo Ph.D.
Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences
University of Reading
Francois Tremblay, Ph.D.
Dept. of Opythalmolgy and Visual Sciences
Dalhousie University, Canada
Howard Cao Ph.D.
USDA-ARS Human Nutrition Research
Boston, MA
Dick Cook Ph.D.
Dept of Food Science & Human Nutrition
University of Maine
Kuresh Youdim, Ph.D.
Center for Age Related Diseases
London, England
Don Ingram, Ph.D.
Nutritional Neuroscience and Aging Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Louisiana State University
Amy Howell, Ph.D.
Marucci Center for Blueberry Cranberry Research
Rutgers University
Willy Kalt, Ph.D.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Nova Scotia
Jane MacDonald, M.S.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Nova Scotia
Mary Ann Lila, Ph.D.
Fruit and Vegetable Science Institute
North Carolina State University, Plants for Human Health Institute
Marva Sweeney-Nixon, Ph.D.
Dept. of Biology
University of Prince Edward Island
Mark Smith, Ph.D.
Institute of Pathology
Case Western Reserve University
Rui Hai Liu, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Food Science
Cornell University
Steven Pratt, M.D., FACS
Scripps Memorial Hospital
Robert Krikorian, Ph.D.
University of Cinncinati School of Medicine
Shawna McKinnon Ph.D.
Institute of Marine Sciences
NRC Canada
Daneel Ferreira, Ph.D.
Nat’l Center for Natural Products Research
Research Institute Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Mississippi
Andrew Waterhouse Ph.D.
Dept of Viticulture and Oenology
University of California
Rod Bushway Ph.D.
Dept. Of Food Science & Human Nutrition
University of Maine
Kathy Gottschall-Pass, Ph.D.
Dept. of Biology
University of Prince Edward Island
Gemma Casadesus, Ph.D.
Department of Pathology
Case Western Reserve University
Xian Wu Ph.D.
Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Ctr
USDA-ARS
