Invited Talks
"Kids Eat Right" Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation Summit, March 2-4, 2012, Napa, CA.
Kranz S. "The importance of fiber intake for children and how to get children to eat more fiber".
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Human Nutrition Research Center, Grand Forks, ND, March 9, 2010.
Kranz S. "Pediatric nutrition to prevent and treat childhood obesity".
Center for Teaching Excellence, East Carolina University, September 1, 2009.
Kranz S. "Including diversity in higher education teaching: example health and nutrition".
The Metabolic Institute "Think Tank", Brody School of Medicine in Greenville, NC, June 23, 2009.
Kranz S. "Targeting childhood obesity: involving the community".
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Center for Excellence in Pediatric Nutrition sponsored by Mead Johnson and the Department of Nutrition, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health in Chapel Hill, NC, February 20, 2009. Kranz S. "The association between early childhood dietary intake patterns and the risk of obesity".
Pediatric Healthy Weight Forum, Brody School of Medicine in Greenville, NC, November 10, 2008.
Kranz S. "Investigating diet quality in the U.S. child population".
Presentation during visit from scholars from Wagening University (the Netherlands) Section "Overweight and Obesity" Penn State University, University Park, October 2007
Kranz S. "The effect of overall diet quality on indicators of health in children".
USDA ERS "Food Assistance and Obesity: Measuring the Link", in Washington DC, July 2007
Kranz S. "WIC and food stamp participation, children's diet quality, and the risk for childhood obesity".
Boston University, Department of Medical Nutrition Sciences and Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, in Boston, MA, November 2006.
Kranz S. "Using diet quality as a predictor for health outcomes in U.S.children".
Ohio State University Public Health Seminar in Columbus, OH, January 2006.
Kranz S. "Examination of diet quality in U.S. preschoolers".
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Nutrition Seminar Speaker Series, in Philadelphia, PA, December 2005. Kranz S. "Added sugar and dietary fiber intakes U.S. preschoolers".
American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, Symposium on the Prevention of Oral Disease in Children and Adolescents in Chicago, IL, November 2005.
Kranz S, Ruder EH. "Diet quality, added sugar and dietary fiber intakes in American preschoolers".
University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN in 2002.
Kranz S, Siega-Riz AM. "Development of a diet quality index for American preschool children 2-5 years old and its application in examining trends of diet quality over time".
Pennsylvania State University, State College PA in 2002.
Kranz S, Siega-Riz AM. "Development of a diet quality index for American preschool children 2-5 years old and its application in examining trends of diet quality over time".