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Thea Palmer Zimmerman
Principal Research Associate
Overview
Thea Palmer Zimmerman, MS, is a Principal Research Associate and recognized research nutritionist with more than 25 years of experience in dietary assessment focused on food and nutrient databases. As leader of 趣赢平台’s Dietary Assessment Team (DAT), she guides the development and maintenance of the question and nutrient database for the NCI’s Automated Self-Administered 24-Hour Recall (ASA24). She also directs DAT’s development, adaption, and linking of dietary databases for specialized nutrient research and mixed-mode data collection; coordinates the collection of telephone and field dietary data using USDA’s Automated Multiple Pass Method and the ASA24; and codes and cleans dietary data and monitors its quality.
In addition, Zimmerman has been the project director and task leader for dozens of federal nutrition and dietary studies for NCI, EPA, FNS), and ERS.
Education
- MS, Nutrition, Case Western Reserve University
- BS, (cum laude), Chemistry, John Carroll University
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Duration of WIC participation and early feeding practices are associated with meeting the added sugars recommendation at age 3 years
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Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior
January 2022
Christine Borger, C. Paolicelli, B. Sun, Thea Palmer Zimmerman, S. Dixit-Joshi
DOILink for: Duration of WIC participation and early feeding practices are associated with meeting the added sugars recommendation at age 3 years -
WIC Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices Study-2: Fifth year report
January 2022
Christine Borger, Thea Palmer Zimmerman, Jill DeMatteis, B. Gollapudi, S. Whaley, L. Ritchie, L. Au, et al.
SOURCEWIC Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices Study-2: Fifth year report -
The WIC Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices Study-2 (WIC ITFPS-2) through age 5: What we've learned, what questions remain, and how you can use this longitudinal dataset
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Current Developments in Nutrition
January 2021
C. Paolicelli, Christine Borger, Jill DeMatteis, B. Gollapudi, Janice Machado, A. Reat, L. Ritchie, et al.
DOILink for: The WIC Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices Study-2 (WIC ITFPS-2) through age 5: What we've learned, what questions remain, and how you can use this longitudinal dataset