FAV Health 2007 Committees

International Advisory Committee

Bhimu Patil
Chair, FAV Health 2007
Director, Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center, Texas A&M University

Marie Josèphe Amiot-Carlin
Professor, INSERM/Faculty of Medicine, Marseilles, France

Mahadev Chetti
Professor and Head
Univerity of Agriculture Science, Dharwad, India

Yves Desjardins
Academic Director, Institute of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods
Université of Laval , Canada

Helmont Sies
Professor, Heinrich-Heine University-Duesseldorf, Germany

M.S. Swaminathan
Chairman, MSSR, Chennai, India

 Organizing Committee

Bhimu Patil, Chair

Thomas Lumpkin, Director-General
AVRDC, The World Vegetable Center

Bharat B. Aggarwal, Professor
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Michael I. McBurney, Head
Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Texas A&M University

Peter Murano, Director
Institute for Obesity and Program Evaluation, Texas A&M University

Steve Schwartz, Professor
Department of Food Sciences, Ohio State University

Barbara Winters, Senior Scientist
Campbell Soup Company

Michael Wargovich, Director
Chemoprevention Program, Hollings Cancer Center

Vegetable & Fruit Improvement Center Research Scientists & Students

Patricia Gerling, Assistant Vice Chancellor
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University

Connie Sebesta, Administrative Coordinator
Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center, Texas A&M University

Publication Committee

Bhimu Patil, Chair

Marie Josèphe Amiot-Carlin

Yves Desjardins

Kevin Crosby, Associate Professor
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station - Weslaco
Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center

John Jifon, Assistant Professor
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station - Weslaco
Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center

Marie Olsson, Professor
Sweden University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

Dan Leskovar, Assistant Director and Professor
Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station - Uvalde

G.K. Jayaprakasha, Research Assistant Professor
Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center
Texas A&M University

Kendal Hirschi, Assistant Director and Associate Professor
Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center, Texas A&M University
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Marie Olsson, Professor
Sweden University of Agricultural Sciences

Robert Chapkin, Professor
Vegetable and Fruit Improvement Center
Nutrition and Food Science Department, Texas A&M University

Narayan Bhat, Professor,
University of Texas at Pan American, Edinburg, TX

Bimal Banik, Presidential Endowed Professor
University of Texas at Pan American, Edinburg , TX

Stephen Talcott, Assistant Professor
Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Texas A&M University

Media Advisory

Bhimu Patil, Chair

Jason Cook
Director, Agricultural Communications, Texas A&M University

Kathleen Phillips
News Editor, Agricultural Communications, Texas A&M University