Nutrition Faculty
The faculty of the Nutrition Department carry out research in a wide variety of topics. Some faculty are also engaged in clinical practice in the field of dietetics. Details of the faculty are listed below.
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Faculty Member |
Research Interests |
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Elena T. Carbone Professor Associate Dean for Curriculum and Oversight, Commonwealth Honors College DrPH, UNC (Chapel Hill), 1999 Email: ecarbone [at] nutrition [dot] umass [dot] edu (ecarbone[at]nutrition[dot]umass[dot]edu) |
Nutrition and behavior change, nutrition education Distance education |
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Soonkyu Chung Associate Professor PhD, UNC (Greensboro), 2006 Email: soonkyuchung [at] umass [dot] edu (soonkyuchung[at]umass[dot]edu) |
Fat cell metabolism |
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Lorraine Cordeiro Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Research on Families PhD, Tufts, Boston, 2007 Email: lcordeiro [at] nutrition [dot] umass [dot] edu (lcordeiro[at]nutrition[dot]umass[dot]edu) |
Food security, multicultural nutrition, adolescent nutrition |
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Nicole Goldstein Lecturer, Undergraduate Program Advisor, MS, UMass Amherst Phone: 413-545-1078 Email: nicolegoldst [at] nutrition [dot] umass [dot] edu (nicolegoldst[at]nutrition[dot]umass[dot]edu) |
Nutrition communication |
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Young-Cheul Kim Professor PhD, Knoxville, TN, 1995 Email: yckim [at] nutrition [dot] umass [dot] edu (yckim[at]nutrition[dot]umass[dot]edu) |
Nutrition and gene expression, fat cell metabolism |
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Zhenhua Liu Associate Professor PhD, Auburn University, AL, 2003 Email: zliu [at] nutrition [dot] umass [dot] edu (zliu[at]nutrition[dot]umass[dot]edu) |
Micronutrients (folate and vitamin D), nutritional epigenetics, obesity and inflammation, gastrointestinal health, cancer prevention |
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Sarah Gonzalez-Nahm Assistant Professor PhD, RD, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC, 2016 Email: snahm [at] umass [dot] edu (snahm[at]umass[dot]edu) |
Maternal and child nutrition, health equity, obesity |
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Christy Maxwell Lecturer, Dietetic Internship Director PhD, RDN, RD, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, 2018 Email: cmaxwell [at] nutrition [dot] umass [dot] edu (cmaxwell[at]nutrition[dot]umass[dot]edu) |
Clinical dietetics |
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Claire Norton Senior Lecturer, DPD Director, and Undergraduate Program Director MS, Trinity College, Dublin, 1984 Email: cpnorton [at] nutrition [dot] umass [dot] edu (cpnorton[at]nutrition[dot]umass[dot]edu) |
Clinical dietetics, eating disorders |
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Lindiwe Sibeko Associate Professor, Extension faculty, PhD, McGill University, Canada, 2008, Phone: 413-545-1693 Email: lsibeko [at] nutrition [dot] umass [dot] edu (lsibeko[at]nutrition[dot]umass[dot]edu) |
Maternal and child health in racial/ethnic minorities and low-income populations, breastfeeding and lactation/human milk, community-based research, prevention of childhood obesity |
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Lisa M. Troy Associate Professor and Honors Director PhD, Tufts, Boston, MA, 2007, Phone: 413-545-4238 Email: lisatroy [at] nutritin [dot] umass [dot] edu (lisatroy[at]nutritin[dot]umass[dot]edu) |
Diet quality measures, monitoring and evaluation |
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Heather Wemhoener Lecturer, Director of Online MPH in Nutrition, MS, RDN, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, 2012 |
Clinical dietetics |
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