Dr. Carolyn W. Miles
Div. Digestive Diseases and Nutrition
NUTRINL SCIENCES BRANCH
NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
Building 2DEM, Room 665
6707 Democracy Blvd.
Bethesda, MD 20892
Tel: 301-451-3759
Fax: 301-480-8300
Email: milesc@mail.nih.gov
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Current Position:
Director, Clinical Obesity and Nutrition Program
Concurrent Positions:
Program Director: Clinical Nutrition Research Units and Obesity Nutrition Research
Centers
Project Scientist: Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery Consortium
Current Portfolio/Responsibilities:
Manage Clinical Obesity and Nutrition research portfolio (biomedical and behavioral
aspects of obesity and nutrition). This portfolio encompasses clinical studies of obesity
investigating appetite and food intake, energy expenditure (including physical activity),
body composition, or impact of obesity and its treatment (medical/surgical therapies) on
metabolic factors, psychosocial factors, or co-morbid conditions in adults; the
physiological and metabolic consequences of weight loss or weight gain; the effects of
exercise and diet composition on appetite and weight control; and the individual
variability in energy utilization and thermogenesis in humans; Serve as Program
Director of the Clinical Nutrition Research Units (CNRU) and Obesity Nutrition
Research Centers (ONRC). Serve as Project Scientist of the Longitudinal Assessment of
Bariatric Surgery (LABS), a multi site clinical study of bariatric surgery.
Previous Training and Experience:
Ph.D. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1977)
Assistant Professor, Department of Foods, Nutrition and Institution Administration,
University of Maryland (1980 – 1981)
Nutritionist, Energy and Protein Nutrition Laboratory, Beltsville Human Nutrition
Research Center, USDA (1981-1990)
Nutritionist, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA (1990 – 1999)
Scientific Review Administrator, Review Branch, NIDDK (1999 – 2004)
Program Director, NIDDK (2004 – Present)
Committees/ Working Groups:
NIDDK Obesity Research Working Group
NIDDK Clinical Trials Working Group (CTWG)
R34/U01 Subcommittee of CTWG (Chair)
Nutrition Coordinating Committee (NCC) - (NIDDK Representative)
Nutrition Subcommittee of NCC
Page last updated: September 01, 2007