Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health
NSP
December 11, 2019
4-Week Study Abroad Program Explores Food Systems in Italy
Announcing a 4-week intensive, interdisciplinary program that uses systems thinking and a variety of perspectives to understand how factors, such as culture, policy, diet, and market structure, interact to create environmental, economic, health, and social/equity outcomes. La Dolce Vita: Comparative Food Systems in Italy begins with farm stays in Tuscany – a farm in the…
December 5, 2019
How Washington keeps America sick and fat
Mario Kratz, an associate professor in epidemiology, medicine, and nutritional sciences at the UW is quoted about the cost-prohibitive factors with NIH grants which present barriers for securing adequate funding for well-controlled dietary studies. Kratz works at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center where he studies dietary interventions and cancer prevention.
November 8, 2019
Faculty Friday features Jennifer Otten, Branden Born and Livable City Year
The academic collaboration between Jennifer Otten and Branden Born is highlighted in The Whole U in a Faculty Friday feature.
Barbara Bruemmer
Judy Simon, MS, RD, CD, CHES
Judy Simon has spent her entire career in the field of dietetics. Over the years she has been employed at community and teaching hospitals, campus health facilities, and primary care clinics. She has mentored and taught dietetic interns at the University of Illinois and MidMichigan Regional Medical Center. For more than 10 years, Ms. Simon…
Marilyn Shelton, RD, CNSD
Marilyn Shelton has been a long-standing clinical inpatient (trauma, surgery ICU) preceptor for students in the Graduate Coordinated Program in Dietetics in the Nutritional Sciences Program. She has mentored student led quality improvement projects and has co-authored case studies with current graduate students. Shelton has provided numerous guest lectures on clinical nutrition topics (Trauma/Surgery Critical…
Barb Pyper, MS, RD, SNS, FCSI
Barb Pyper has extensive training in food safety, culinary/recipe development, management, customer service, managing transition, and total quality management. Pyper has served as the director in large-volume food service operations in both colleges and health care and was an adjunct professor of food systems management at Seattle Pacific University for 17 years and also serves…
Megan Nordlund, MS, RD, CD
Megan Nordlund has been a clinical dietitian on a variety of units at Harborview Medical Center since 2008. She has worked as the burn unit dietitian with both pediatric and adult patients since 2010. She has served as preceptor for numerous UW nutrition interns and guest lectured on nutrition support in burn patients in NUTR…
November 7, 2019
Susan McBride, MS, RD
Susan McBride has worked in the field of nutrition for the University of Washington for over a decade in both clinical nutrition and foodservice management positions. Through her roles, she works with students and faculty in various capacities. McBride guest lectures to UW nutrition graduate students on topics including nutrition and neurological injuries, nutrition for…
Blishda Lacet, MPH, MBA
Blishda Lacet has more than 20 years of experience in public health. Her experience includes working as a bridge connector among state agencies, universities, nonprofit organizations, hospitals, and community groups. Through her current position in HEAL, Lacet provides support to community-based organizations to identify and implement strategies to promote healthy food and beverage choices in…
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