Very Sad condolences for the pass of Joanne Holden.
 
 
Best Regards,

Eng. Alaa Abu Rub

Director of Nutrition Department
MSc. Nutrition and Food Science

The Secretary of Palestinian Breastfeeding National Committee
Quality Assurance Coordinator of Primary Health Care
The Chairman of Palestinian Food and Nutrition Association
Ministry of Health
State of Palestine

Mobile: 00970 598919753
Telfax: 00970 2 2404764
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Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2014 at 7:52 AM
From: "Rakesh Bhardwaj" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: death of Joanne Holden
Dear All

Its a great loss but a part of life. I remember her as an able teacher with firm detrmination and devotion for the trainees in FoodComp courses. I consider my self fortunate to have learned some thing from her. Best part of Joanne life is that she lived it fully, gave best from her potential to the world.

As she faught bodily pains for long time in a way her soul is relived from all these. May her soul rest in peace.

If there is rebirth as we believe in this part of world, she will come again and serve to the cause of humanity - may be to food and nutrition community with the renewed energy and enthusiasm in her new body.



Dr. Rakesh Bhardwaj
Senior Scientist (Biochemistry)
Germplasm Evaluation Division
National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR)
PUSA Campus, New Delhi - 110 012
India
Phone (+91)11-25848074(O),(+91)11-25842495(Fax)
(+91)9560487889 (M), (+91) 9015405449

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On Fri, 10/3/14, Delia Rodriguez Amaya <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Subject: Re: death of Joanne Holden
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Friday, October 3, 2014, 10:32 PM

Thank you,
Pamela. This is very sad news for all of us who had the
opportunity to know and work with Joanne. She will be
terribly missed.Delia Rodriguez Amaya
 
2014-10-04 4:33 GMT+08:00
Barbara Burlingame <[log in to unmask]>:
Thanks, Pamela, it is a very nice tribute. Joanne
will long be remembered as one of food composition's
great figures.

Barbara Burlingame
On Oct 3, 2014 9:22
PM, "Pehrsson, Pamela" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
In memory
of Joanne Holden, MS

Retired from ARS-USDA June 30, 2012

Passed away October 2, 2014



Joanne Holden received her BS in Foods and Nutrition from
the University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware. She worked for
the University of Maryland (UMD) Cooperative Extension
Service in Frederick County before enrolling in the UMD
Graduate School.    She joined the Beltsville Human
Nutrition Research Center, Agricultural Research Service,
USDA in 1969 as a Support Scientist in the Carbohydrate
Metabolism Laboratory where she conducted research on the
effects of carbohydrate intake and metabolism while
completing the MS degree in Human Nutrition Research. Ms.
Holden assisted in the conduct of some of the first (BHNRC)
human feeding studies and the analysis of human biological
samples.  She then worked as a Research Nutritionist in the
Food Composition Laboratory (now FCMDL), BHNRC for 20
years.  She worked with Dr. Wayne Wolf and others to sample
and analyze various types of foods for nutrient content, the
results of which were included in the Human Nutrition
Information Service (HNIS) National Nutrient Databank. 
Joanne developed food sampling plans for use in various FCL
research projects as well as expert systems for evaluating
the quality of analytical data for both inorganic and
organic components in foods. This led to her interest in the
assessment of data quality for newly recognized bioactive
compounds such as flavonoids in foods.



Joanne joined the Nutrient Data Laboratory (NDL) as Research
Leader in 1995, providing leadership and coordination in the
acquisition, evaluation, compilation and dissemination of
food composition data and related research efforts.  This
included the National Nutrient Database for Standard
Reference (SR), the authoritative source of U.S. food
composition data.  Her research interests in food sampling,
bioactive compounds and the evaluation of data quality led
to the development and coordination of the National Food and
Nutrient Analysis Program (NFNAP), which has supported the
generation of current, accurate original analytical data for
~2000 foods targeted as the most significant contributors of
nutrients in the US diet.  She authored many publications
and presentations on USDA food composition research.



Joanne served as the Co-Director of the International
Postgraduate Course for the Production, Management, and Use
of Food Composition Data between 1994 and 2005, which is
coordinated and supported by the Food and Agriculture
Organization (INFOODS), Rome, Italy, the Wageningen
Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands and the
European Food Information Research Program (EuroFIR),
Norwich, U.K.  This international course has trained more
than 400 scientists from 85 countries since 1992; she taught
in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa to groups of
analytical chemists, data compilers, and users of food
composition data on the topics of food sampling, data
quality evaluation, and the development of food composition
databases and will be remembered all around the world.



Joanne was, above all, a loving mother, sister, grandmother,
partner, aunt and friend and is survived by her devoted sons
Jeff and David, three beautiful grandchildren and loving
partner Larry Brown.



Memorial arrangements:

Kaufman Funeral Home at Meadowridge Memorial Park

7250 Washington Blvd, Elkridge, MD 21075

Visitation: Sunday, October 5, 2014 @ 2pm-4pm, 7pm-9pm

Funeral: Monday, October 6, 2014 @ 10am



I apologize for duplicate sends to some of you.  This is a
difficult time for USDA and the wonderful network of INFOODS
friends and colleagues.  Joanne fought bravely against MDS
and leukemia since her retirement in 2012.  She will be
missed so much.



Pamela



Pamela R. Pehrsson, Ph.D.

Research Leader

USDA, Agricultural Research Service

Nutrient Data Laboratory

Room 105, Building 005, BARC-West

10300 Baltimore Avenue

Beltsville, MD 20705

301.504.0630 (voice)

301.504.0632 (fax)

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