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.
Members of the Bar Harbor Group include:
James A. Joseph, Ph.D.
Neuroscience Laboratory
USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
Boston, MA
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
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.
Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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
