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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.

Faculty Member

Research Interests

Elena T. Carbone

Professor

Associate Dean for Curriculum and Oversight, Commonwealth Honors College

DrPH, UNC (Chapel Hill), 1999 
Phone: 413-545-1071

Email: ecarbone [at] nutrition [dot] umass [dot] edu (ecarbone[at]nutrition[dot]umass[dot]edu)

Nutrition and behavior change, nutrition education

Distance education

Soonkyu Chung

Associate Professor

PhD, UNC (Greensboro), 2006
Phone: 413-545-1079

Email: soonkyuchung [at] umass [dot] edu (soonkyuchung[at]umass[dot]edu)

Fat cell metabolism

 

Lorraine Cordeiro

Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Research on Families

PhD, Tufts, Boston, 2007
Phone: 413-545-9071

Email: lcordeiro [at] nutrition [dot] umass [dot] edu (lcordeiro[at]nutrition[dot]umass[dot]edu)

 

Food security, multicultural nutrition, adolescent nutrition

 

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

Young-Cheul Kim

Professor

PhD, Knoxville, TN, 1995
Phone: 413-577-4553

Email: yckim [at] nutrition [dot] umass [dot] edu (yckim[at]nutrition[dot]umass[dot]edu)

Nutrition and gene expression, fat cell metabolism

Zhenhua Liu

Associate Professor

PhD, Auburn University, AL, 2003 
Phone: 413-545-1075

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

 

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

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

Claire Norton

Senior Lecturer, DPD Director, and Undergraduate Program Director MS, Trinity College, Dublin, 1984
Phone: 413-545-1077

Email: cpnorton [at] nutrition [dot] umass [dot] edu (cpnorton[at]nutrition[dot]umass[dot]edu)

Clinical dietetics, eating disorders

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

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

Heather Wemhoener

Lecturer, Director of Online MPH in Nutrition, MS, RDN, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, 2012
Email: hmorin [at] umass [dot] edu (hmorin[at]umass[dot]edu)

Clinical dietetics

For further information about the department visit its website.

The site contains an updated listing of news and events as well as an overview of the nutrition department.

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