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Biographical Details

Bonny Specker

Dr Bonny Specker is currently Director and Chair of the E.A. Martin Program in Human Nutrition at South Dakota State University. Prior to moving to SDSU in 1997, she was at the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center where she received her PhD in Epidemiology and spent 15 years in research and teaching as Professor of Pediatrics. She has published extensively in the area of bone, calcium and vitamin D metabolism. She was the Principal Investigator of the South Dakota Rural Bone Health study, which was designed to determine how lifestyle (diet and activity) and genetics influence bone density and later bone loss, and the SDSU Study Center of the National Children’s Study. Her and her group at SDSU have been working with the South Dakota Department of Health and the Northern Plains Tribal Epidemiology Center on maternal child health issues.