Jun Ma
Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute, USA
Biography
Jun Ma is an associate staff scientist at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute (PAMFRI), and a CHP/PCOR associate. Before joining PAMFRI in October 2006, Ma was a research associate the Stanford Prevention Research Center and research director of the centers Program on Prevention Outcomes and Practices. Before that, she worked as a doctoral research assistant and lecturer at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences. She earned an MS in nutrition, an RD in dietetics, and a PhD in nutrition/biometry from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Research Interest
Nutrition and Health Sciences, Asthma, nutritional sciences, the role of computer technology in behavior change; prevention practices for heart disease and stroke; racial/ethnic disparities in health and nutrition