Dr. Mary Ellen Camire wins 2015 General Mills Institute of Health and Nutrition Innovation Award.
“Dr. Mary Ellen Camire wins 2015 General Mills Institute of Health and Nutrition Innovation Award, which will be presented at the American Society for Nutrition Annual Meeting at the awards ceremony on March 29, 2015 in Boston”.
Mary Ellen Doherty Camire is a native of Somerville, Massachusetts. In 1979 she received an AB in biology at Harvard University, where she had the fortune to have Dr. Jean Mayer as her Dudley House Master. Her fascination with nutrition and foods led her to the University of Massachusetts-Amherst for a M.S., then on to Texas Woman’s University for her doctorate. She is a Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Maine, and has been a faculty member there since 1989. While at UM, she has helped drive a return to grain production in Maine and an understanding of whole grain benefits. Her research has focused on barriers to whole grain consumption across the life span and interactions between dietary fiber constituents and other grain compounds. As President of the grain science community AACC International in 2008-2009, she refocused science efforts on whole grains and their constituents. She is a long-standing member of the AACC International Dietary Fiber and Other Carbohydrates Technical Committee, and was a member of the AACC Dietary Fiber Definition Task Force. On September 1, 2014, she became the 75th President of the Institute of Food Technologists, and she has held numerous positions within that organization. Mary Ellen is a member of ASN, the Obesity Society, and the American Chemical Society. She serves on the Grain for Health Foundation Scientific Advisory Committee. In 2006, she received the Babcock- Hart Award from the Institute of Food Technologists and the International Life Sciences Institute North America, and in the following year she became an IFT Fellow. She was the 2008 recipient of the University of Maine College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture Outstanding Researcher Award and the University of Maine Presidential Research and Creative Achievement Award.