Advisory Board Bios

Dr. Maureen Storey is Director and Research Associate Professor at the Center for Food and Nutrition Policy (CFNP), which is an independent, affiliated center in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech. She joined CFNP on September 1, 1998 and in March, 2002, she was named acting director of the Center. On July 1, 2003, she was appointed the Center’s third director.

Prior to joining the center, Dr. Storey was Senior Vice President of Health and Nutrition Marketing at Hayes, Domenici & Associates, a public relations and marketing firm in McLean, Virginia. She has been an executive with the Kellogg Company, where she held several management positions in nutrition over a 10-year career. Her responsibilities included leading the nutrition communications strategies and activities as well as nutrition labeling and advertising for Kellogg’s? domestic operations.

Dr. Storey received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota. She was a National Cancer Institute postdoctoral training grant recipient at the University Wisconsin-Madison.

In 2004, Dr. Storey received the Phi Beta Delta International Service Award for faculty. She was a private sector advisor to Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson at the 56th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland and was a member of the Secretary’s expert consultation on obesity in 2003. Dr. Storey served as an expert on sugars and obesity to the 2005 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee and she has been a volunteer with the American Heart Association. She is a member of the American Society for Nutritional Sciences and has published scientific papers on such topics as added sugars and diet quality, calcium supplementation, iron-zinc-copper interactions, and dietary fiber.