Dr. H. June Stevens

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Public Health
Nutrition
ChairAppointed: 2006
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Public Health
Nutrition
Interim ChairAppointed: 2005
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Public Health
Epidemiology
ProfessorAppointed: 2001
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Public Health
Nutrition
Distinguished ProfessorAppointed: 2001
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Mailing Address

Department of Nutrition
School of Public Health
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB #7461
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7461
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (919) 966-7218
Fax: (919) 966-7215
june_stevens@unc.edu
http://www.sph.unc.edu/?option=com_profiles&Itemid=1900&profileAction=ProfDetail&pid=704227565

Qualifications

Postdoctoral Studies, New England Epidemiology Institute, Epidemiology, 1987.
Postdoctoral Studies, Medical University of South Carolina, Epidemiology, 1987.
Ph.D., Cornell University, Human Nutrition, Minor in Statistics, 1986.
M.S., Pennsylvania State University, Human Nutrition, 1978.
R.D., Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital, Clinical Dietetics, 1975.
B.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Human Nutrition, 1973.
Wake Forest University, Liberal Arts, 1970.

Expertise and Research Interests

Obesity, Nutrition and Epidemiology

Dr. Stevens is a nutrition epidemiologist with a large research program focusing on the causes, consequences, and prevention of obesity in different populations. She has special interests in minority health, anthropometry, and physical activity. Through her work at the Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center, she has access to obesity-related information from several large, multi-center studies. She is the Principal Investigator of the Coordinating Center for two national trials that examine obesity and physical activity in children and adolescents.

Dr. Stevens is a member of the American Society for Nutritional Sciences, the American Heart Association Council on Epidemiology, the North American Society for the Study of Obesity, the International Association for the Study of Obesity (IASO) and the Society for Epidemiologic Research. Dr. Stevens is currently Vice President for Scientific Affairs of the IASO. She serves as a reviewer for the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the American Journal of Epidemiology, Obesity Research, and the International Journal of Obesity, as well as several other journals.

Other Expertise

Recent Courses Taught Include:
Obesity Epidemiology
Nutritional Epidemiology
Readings in Nutrition
Nutrition Research
Problems in Epidemiology

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Biometry, Cardiology, Cardiovascular Diseases, Epidemiology, Exercise, Minority Health, Nutrition or Dietetics, Obesity, Public Health.

Additional Terms:

Obesity.

Memberships

American Heart Association
American Society for Nutrition
International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (ISBNPA)
Society for Epidemiologic Research
The Obesity Society - formerly North American Society for the Study of Obesity (NASSO)

Honors and Awards

2006, American Institute for Cancer Research/World Cancer Research Fund (AICR/WCRF) Distinguished Professor, American Institute for Cancer Research/World Cancer Research Fund (AICR/WCRF), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1984, Gift Harris Award, Cornell University, Academics and Leadership
1971, Phi Kappa Phi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Human Nutrition
Delta Omega Honorary Society, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Nutrition

Previous Positions

1993-2001, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Public Health, Nutrition and Epidemiology
1992-1993, Associate Professor, Medical University of South Carolina, Biometry and Epidemiology
1987-1992, Assistant Professor, Medical University of South Carolina, Biometry and Epidemiology
1986-1987, Fellow, Medical University of South Carolina, Biometry
1979-1981, Instructor, University of Virginia, School of Medicine
1978-1980, Instructor, University of Virginia, Nursing

Funding Received

  • National Heart Lung and Blood Institute: Hispanic Community Health Study, $2,280,224, 2006 to 2013.
  • Sanofi-Aventis: Obesity and Weight Reduction in ARIC, $278,515, 2006 to 2008.
  • National Cancer Institute: Development of a Tool to measure food availability in the home (Pantry), $76,000, 2006 to 2008.
  • National Center for Research Resources: An Interdisciplinary Strategy for Obesity (I-DOC), $1,752,000, 2005 to 2008.
  • National Heart Lung and Blood Institute: Primary Care and Communities Tackling Obesity in Kids, $3,572,273, 2005 to 2010.
  • National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute: Weight Loss and CVD Risk Factors, $178,544, 2004 to 2006.
  • National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute: Obesity in Asians, $432,994, 2004 to 2006.
  • National Institute on Aging (NIA): Obesity, Diet and Functional Health, $145,000, 2003 to 2005.
  • The Gatorade Company: Linking Families, Physicians and Communities for Children's Health (LINC) http://linux.chi.tribalddb.com:8080/kidsinaction/, $3,000,000, 2003 to 2007.
  • National Institue on Aging: Obesity in Early and Middle Adulthood and Retirement, $145,000, 2003 to 2005.
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH): Pregnancy Related Weight Gain: A Link to Obesity, $2,534,928, 2002 to 2007.
  • National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI): Community Characteristics and Physical Activity for Adolescent Girls, $58,433, 2002 to 2003.
  • Centers for Disease Control (CDC): Fit or Fat, $200,000, 2000 to 2002.
  • American Heart Association (AHA): The Impact of Changes in Body Weight and Abdominal Obesity on Chages in Carotid Artery Wall Thickness, $96,544, 2000 to 2002.
  • National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI): Trial of Activity in Adolescent Girls (TAAG) http://www.cscc.unc.edu/taag/, $9,009,981, 2000 to 2007.
  • NIDCR: Diet, Inflammation, and Peridontal Disease, $30,759, 1999 to 2000.
  • Institute of Nutrition: Changes in body weight and changes in carotid artery wall thickness, $5,000, 1999 to 2000.
  • National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute: Reseach supplement for underrepresented minority GRA: Obesity prevention in American Indians/Alaskan natives: Coordinating Center (Pathways), $73,910, 1999 to 2001.
  • Institute of Nutrition: Quantification of the impact of obesity on mortality in old versus young adults, $4,900, 1998 to 1999.
  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases: The optimal weight study, $259,070, 1996 to 1999.
  • National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute: Obesity prevention in American Indians/Alaskan natives: Coordinating Center (PATHWAYS), $4,139,870, 1996 to 2001.

Publications

  • Pratt CA, Stevens J, Daniels S (Sep 2008) Childhood obesity prevention and treatment recommendations for future research., American journal of preventive medicine, 35 (3), 249-52 Abstract
  • Bryant MJ, Stevens J, Truesdale KP, Mosley T, Chambless L (Jul 2008) Obesity and vital exhaustion: analysis of the atherosclerosis risk in the communities study., Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.), 16 (7), 1545-51 Abstract
  • Stevens J, Truesdale KP, Katz EG, Cai J (Jun 2008) Impact of body mass index on incident hypertension and diabetes in Chinese Asians, American Whites, and American Blacks: the People's Republic of China Study and the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study., American journal of epidemiology, 167 (11), 1365-74 Abstract
  • Truesdale KP, Stevens J, Cai J (May 2008) Effect of 3-year weight history on blood pressure: the atherosclerosis risk in communities study., Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.), 16 (5), 1112-9 Abstract
  • Stevens J, Taber D (2008) Do's and don'ts of obesity prevention trials. Proceedings of the International Congress on Obesity Sepember 2006 in Sydney, Australia, Progess in Obesity Research, ISBN 978--0-646-4708
  • Truesdale KP, Stevens J (2008) Do the obese know they are obese?, North Carolina Medical Journal, 69, 188-94
  • Bryant MJ, Ward DS, Hales D, Vaughn A, Tabak RG, Stevens J (2008) Reliability and validity of the Healthy Home Survey: A tool to measure factors within homes hypothesized to relate to overweight in children., The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity, 5, 23 Abstract
  • Webber L S, Catellier D J, Lytle L A, Murray D M, Pratt C A, Young D R, Elder J P, Lohman T G, Stevens J, Jobe J B, Pate R R (2008) Promoting physical activity in middle-school girls: Trial of Activity for Adolescent Girls, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 34, 173-184
  • Stevens J (2008) Editorial: BMI and Mortality: sorting through the date to find the public health message, International Journal of Obesity, 32, 727-9
  • Lutsey, P L, Steffen, L M, Stevens, J (2008) Dietary intake and the development of the metabolic syndrome: the ARIC study, Circulation, 117, 754-761
  • Stevens J, Murray DM, Baggett CD, Elder JP, Lohman TG, Lytle LA, Pate RR, Pratt CA, Treuth MS, Webber LS, Young DR (Dec 2007) Objectively assessed associations between physical activity and body composition in middle-school girls: the Trial of Activity for Adolescent Girls., American journal of epidemiology, 166 (11), 1298-305 Abstract
  • Kan H, Stevens J, Heiss G, Klein R, Rose KM, London SJ (Dec 2007) Dietary fiber intake and retinal vascular caliber in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study., The American journal of clinical nutrition, 86 (6), 1626-32 Abstract
  • Duval, S, Vazquez, G, Baker, W L, Jacobs Jr, D R (2007) The Collaborative Study of Obesity in Adults (CODA) project: meta-analysis design and desription of participating studies, Obesity Reviews, 8, 263-76
  • Loftin, M, Nichols, J, Going, S, Sothern, M, Schmitz, K H, Ring, K, Tuuri, G, Stevens, J (2007) Comparison of the validity of anthropometric and biolelectric impedance equations to assess body composition in adolescent girls, International Journal of Body Composition Research, 5, 1-8
  • Truesdale, K P, Stevens, J, Cai, J (2007) Nine-year changes in cardiovascular disease risk factors with weight maintenance in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities cohort, American Journal of Epidemiology, 165, 890-900
  • Vines, A I, Baird, D D, Stevens, J, Hertz-Picciotto, I, Light, K C, McNeilly, M (2007) Associations of abdominal fat with perceived racism and passive emotional responses to racism in African American women, American Journal of Public Health, 97, 526-530
  • Elder, J P, Lytle, L, Sallis, J F, Young, D R, Steckler, A, Simons-Morton, D, Stone, E, Jobe, J B, Stevens, J, Lohman, T, Webber, L, Pate, R, Saksvig, B I, Ribisl, K (2007) A description of the social-ecological framework used in the trial of activity for adolescent girls, Health Education Research, 22, 155-165
  • Monda, K, Gordon-Larsen, P, Stevens, J, Popkin, B M (2007) China's transition: The effect of rapid urbanization on adult occupational physical activity, Social Science & Medicine, 64, 858-870
  • Stevens, J, Taber, D R, Murray, D M, Ward, D S (2007) Advances and controversies in the Design of Obesity Prevention Trials, Obesity, 15, 2163-70
  • Abbate LM, Stevens J, Schwartz TA, Renner JB, Helmick CG, Jordan JM (Jul 2006) Anthropometric measures, body composition, body fat distribution, and knee osteoarthritis in women., Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.), 14 (7), 1274-81 Abstract
  • Murray, D M, Stevens, J, Hannan, P J, Catellier, D J, Schmitz, K H, Dowda, M, Conway, T L, Rice, J C, Yang, S (2006) School-level intraclass correlation for physical activity in sixth grade girls, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 38, 926-36
  • Bryant, M, Stevens, J (2006) Measurement of food availability in the home, Nutrition Reviews, 64, 67-76
  • Truesdale, K P, Stevens, J, Lewis, C E, Schreiner, P J, Loria, C M, Cai, J (2006) Changes in risk factors for cardiovascular disease by baseline weight status in young adults who maintain or gain weight over 15 years, International Journal of Obesity, 30, 1397-407
  • Stevens, J, Truesdale, K, McClain, J, Cai, J (2006) The definition of weight maintenance, International Journal of Obesity, 30, 391-9
  • Stevens, J, McClain, J, Truesdale, K (2006) Commentary: obesity claims and controversy, International Journal of Epidemiology, 35, 77-8
  • Abrahamson, P E, Gammon, M D, Lund, M J, Flagg, E W, Porter, P L, Stevens, J, Swanson, C A, Brinton, L A, Eley, J W, Coates, R J (2006) General and abdominal obesity and survival among young women with breast cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention, 15, 1871-7
  • Vines AI, Baird DD, McNeilly M, Hertz-Picciotto I, Light KC, Stevens J (2006) Social correlates of the chronic stress of perceived racism among Black women., Ethnicity & disease, 16 (1), 101-7 Abstract
  • Going S, Nichols J, Loftin M, Stewart D, Lohman T, Tuuri G, Ring K, Pickrel J, Blew R, J Stevens (2006) Validation of bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) for estimation of body composition in Black, White and Hispanic adolescent girls., International journal of body composition research, 4 (4), 161-167 Abstract
  • Pate, R R, Stevens, J, Pratt, C, Sallis, J, Schmitz, K H, Webber, L S, Welk, G, Young, D R (2006) Objectively measured physical activity in 6th grade girls, Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 160, 1262-8
  • Houston, D K, Stevens, J, Cai, J (2005) Abdominal fat distribution and functional limitations and disability in a biracial cohort: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, International Journal of Obesity, 29, 1457-63
  • Houston DK, Stevens J, Cai J, Haines PS, Dairy, Fruit, and Vegetable Intakes and Functional Limitations And Disability in a Biracial Cohort: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study., The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 81(2), 515-22, Feb 2005 Abstract
  • Robinson, WR, Stevens, J, Gammon, MD, John, EM, Obesity Before Age 30 and Risk of Advanced Prostate Cancer, American Journal of Epidemiology, 161, 1107-14, 2005
  • Stevens, J, Murray, DM, Catellier, DJ, Hannan, PJ, Lytle, LA, Elder, JP, Simons-Morton, DG, Webber, LS, Design of the Trial of Activity in Adolescent Girls (TAAG), Contemporaty Clinical Trials, 26, 223-33, 2005
  • Truesdale,KP, Stevens, J, Cai, J, The Effect of Weight History on Glucose and Lipids. the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, American Journal of Epidemiology, 161, 1133-43, 2005
  • Houston, D K, Stevens, J, Cai, J, Morey, M C (2005) Role of weight history on functional limitations and disability in late adulthood: the ARIC study, Obesity Research, 13, 1793-1802
  • Stevens, J, Truesdale, K P (2005) Fat Distribution, Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition, Second Edition, Oxford, UK, Elsevier, Ltd, 392-9 pages, ISBN=0121501108 (bookchapter)
  • Tilling K, Smith GD, Chambless L, Rose K, Stevens J, Lawlor D, Szklo M (Sep 2004) The relation between birth weight and intima-media thickness in middle-aged adults., Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.), 15 (5), 557-64 Abstract
  • Weber JL, Lytle L, Gittelsohn J, Cunningham-Sabo L, Heller K, Anliker JA, Stevens J, Hurley J, Ring K, Validity of self-reported dietary intake at school meals by American Indian children: the Pathways Study, Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 104(5), 746-52, May 2004 Abstract
  • Murray DM, Catellier DJ, Hannan PJ, Treuth MS, Stevens J, Schmitz KH, Rice JC, Conway TL, School-level intraclass correlation for physical activity in adolescent girls, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 36(5), 876-82, May 2004 Abstract
  • Pereira MA, O'Reilly E, Augustsson K, Fraser GE, Goldbourt U, Heitmann BL, Hallmans G, Knekt P, Liu S, Pietinen P, Spiegelman D, Stevens J, Virtamo J, Willett WC, Ascherio A, Dietary fiber and risk of coronary heart disease: a pooled analysis of cohort studies, Archives of Internal Medicine, 164(4), 370-6, Feb 2004 Abstract
  • WHO expert consultation, Appropriate body-mass index for Asian populations and its implications for policy and intervention strategies, The Lancet, 363, 157-63, January 2004
  • Millen AE, Klein R, Folsom AR, Stevens J, Palta M, Mares JA, Relation between intake of vitamins C and E and risk of diabetic retinopathy in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 79, 865-73, 2004
  • Evenson KR, Stevens J, Thomas R, Cai J., Effect of cardiorespiratory fitness on mortality among hypertensives and normotensives, Epidemiology, 15, 565-72, 2004
  • Stevens J, Book Review: Food Fight: the inside story of the food industry, America’s obesity crisis, and.what we can do about it by Kelly D. Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 80, 239-40, 2004
  • Zizza C, Herring A, Stevens J, Popkin BM, Length of hospital stays among obese individuals, American Journal of Public Health, 94, 1587, 2004
  • Knekt P, Ritz J, Pereira MA, O'Reilly EJ, Augustsson K, Fraser GE, Goldbourt U, Heitmann BL, Hallmans G, Liu S, Pietinen P, Spiegelman D, Stevens J, Virtamo J, Willett WC, Rimm EB, Ascherio A, Antioxidant vitamins and coronary heart disease risk: a pooled analysis of 9 cohorts, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 80, 1508, 2004
  • Tilling K, Smith GD, Chambless L, Rose K, Stevens J, Lawlor D, Szklo M, The relationship between birthweight and intima-media thickness in middle-age: The ARIC Study, Epidemiology, 15, 557-64, 2004
  • Stevens J, Evenson KR, Thomas O, Cai J, Thomas R, Associations of fitness and fatness with mortality in Russian and American men in the Lipids Research Clinics Study, International Journal of Obesity, 10, 417-23, 2004
  • Stevens J, Suchindran C, Ring K, Baggett CD, Jobe JB, Story M, Thompson J, Going S, Caballero B, Physical activity as a predictor of body composition in American Indian children, Obesity Research, 12, 1974-80, 2004
  • Caballero B, Clay T, Davis SM, Ethelbah B, Holy Rock B, Lohman T, Norman J, Story M, Stone EJ, Stephenson L, Stevens J, Pathways: a school-based, randomized controlled trial for the prevention of obesity in American Indian school children, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 78(1030-8), November 2003
  • Stevens J, DEBATE: Ethnic-specific revisions of body mass index cutoffs to define overweight and obesity in Asians are not warranted, International Journal of Obesity, 27(1297-9), November 2003
  • Steffen LM, Jacobs DR Jr, Stevens J, Shahar E, Carithers T, Folsom AR, Associations of whole-grain, refined-grain, and fruit and vegetable consumption with risks of all-cause mortality and incident coronary artery disease and ischemic stroke: the Atherosclero, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 78(3), 383-90, September 2003 Abstract
  • Caballero B, Himes JH, Lohman T, Davis SM, Stevens J, Evans M, Going S, Pablo J, Pathways Study Research Group, Body composition and overweight prevalence in 1704 schoolchildren from 7 American Indian communities, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 78(2), 308-12, August 2003 Abstract
  • Stevens J, Nowicki EM, Body mass index and mortality in asian populations: implications for obesity cut-points, Nutrition Reviews, 61(3), 104-7, March 2003 Abstract
  • Juhaeri, Stevens J, Jones DW, Arnett D, Associations of aging and birth cohort with body mass index in a biethnic cohort, Obesity Research, 11(3), 426-33, March 2003 Abstract
  • Juhaeri, Stevens J, Chambless LE, Nieto FJ, Jones D, Schreiner P, Arnett D, Cai J, Associations of weight loss and changes in fat distribution with the remission of hypertension in a bi-ethnic cohort: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study, Preventive Medicine, 36(3), 330-9, March 2003 Abstract
  • Stevens J, Ethnic-specific cutpoints for obesity vs country-specific guidelines for action, International Journal of Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorders : Journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, 27(3), 287-8, March 2003
  • Evenson KR, Stevens J, Cai J, Thomas R, Thomas O, The effect of cardiorespiratory fitness and obesity on cancer mortality in women and men, Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 35(2), 270-7, February 2003 Abstract
  • Stevens J, Truesdale KP, Epidemiology and Consequences of Obesity, Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, 7, 428-42, 2003
  • Stevens J, Truesdale K, Kaplan LM, Wadden TA, McGuckin BG, Rothman RA, Sargent SL, Klein S, Schaur PR, Sugarman HA. Moderator: Arron Funk, 2002 Consensus Conference on Management of Obesity, Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery, 7, 433-7, 2003
  • Zizza C, Herring A, Domino M, Haines P, Stevens J, Popkin BM, The effect of weight changes on nursing care facility adminssion in the NHANES I Epidemiologic Followup Survey, Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 56, 906-13, 2003
  • Stevens J, BMI cutoffs for obesity should not vary by ethnic group, in: Progress in Obesity Research eds. G Medeiros-Neto, A Halpern, and C Bouchard, John Libbey Eurotext, 554-7, 2003
  • Story M, Stevens J, Himes J, Stone E, Holy Rock B, Ethelbah B, Davis S, Obesity in American Indian children: prevalence, consequences, and prevention, Preventive Medicine, 37, S3-S12, 2003
  • Stevens J, Story M, Ring K, Murray DM, Cornell CE, Juhaeri, Gittelsohn J, The impact of the Pathways intervention on psychosocial variables related to diet and physical activity in American Indian schoolchildren, Preventive Medicine, 37, S70-S79, 2003
  • Zizza CA, Herring AH, Stevens J, Carey TS, Bariatric Surgeries in North Carolina, 1990 to 2001: A Gender Comparison, Obesity Research, 11, 1519-1525, 2003

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