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Virginia Stallings is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Director of the Nutrition Center at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and holds a Chair in Gastroenterology and Nutrition. She is a pediatrician and an expert in nutrition and growth in children with chronic illnesses. Her research interests are in nutrition-
related growth in healthy children and those with chronic illnesses including: obesity, sickle cell disease, osteoporosis, cystic fibrosis, cerebral palsy, Crohn’s disease, HIV and congenital heart disease. She has been extensively involved in pediatric nutrition clinical care and research for more than 25 years.

Stallings plays a significant role in the community of nutrition scientists and physicians as a member of the Institute of Medicine, the Food and Nutrition Board of the US National Academy of Sciences and the Council of the American Society for Nutrition. She steered the Institute of Medicine committee reports entitled Nutrition Standards for Food in Schools: Leading the Way Towards Healthier Youth, and School Meals: Building Blocks for Healthy Children, that led to the
development of a new policy to improve the nutritional quality of children’s meals and school meals in the United States. She has received research and teaching awards from the American Society of Nutrition, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Academies.