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Elizabeth A. Yetley, Ph.D., Senior Nutrition Research ScientistDr. Elizabeth Yetley joined the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in February 2004 as a Senior Nutrition Research Scientist. Her primary responsibilities focus on the development of a research and science-based strategy for the role of dietary supplements in health promotion and disease prevention. In addition, she is collaborating with other national and international agencies to facilitate the application of science-based risk assessment approaches to evaluations of dietary supplement safety questions and to identification of related research needs.
Prior to joining the ODS, Dr. Yetley was employed by the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Dr. Yetley joined CFSAN as a senior staff fellow in 1980. She held subsequent positions as Section and Branch Chiefs and as Deputy Director for the Office of Nutrition and Food Sciences. In 1992, Dr. Yetley was appointed as Director of the Office of Special Nutritionals where she had regulatory and scientific responsibilities for three product areas: dietary supplements, medical foods, and infant formulas. Between January of 2000 and February of 2004, Dr. Yetley served as FDA’s Lead Scientist for Nutrition.
In 1996, Dr. Yetley became the first member of CFSAN to receive an appointment to FDA’s Senior Biomedical Research Service. She also served for almost 10 years as the lead of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations-sponsored Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses.
Dr. Yetley received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in human nutrition from Iowa State University. She had written minors in biochemistry and physiology and the course-work equivalence of a minor in psychometrics. During their college years, Dr. Yetley and her husband served as community volunteers in the South East Asian country of Laos and worked with the Agricultural Research Service in Dublin, Ireland. Prior to joining the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Yetley served as Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and at Texas A & M University.
Dr. Yetley is the recipient of numerous awards from the FDA and the Department of Health and Human Services. She is also the recipient of the Bernice K. Watt endowed lectureship at Iowa State University and the Virginia A. Beal honorarium at the University of Massachusetts. Dr. Yetley is the author of over 50 articles in professional journals and has been an invited speaker at numerous meetings in the U.S. and internationally.
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