Nutrition and Health

Eileen Kennedy is the Dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University and was the first Director of USDA's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion. Kennedy holds an undergraduate degree from Hunter College, two master's degrees from Pennsylvania State University, and a Doctor of Science in Nutrition from Harvard's School of Public Health. Kennedy has long been involved in the academic arena of nutrition conducting research and teaching at Tufts, Columbia University, Cornell University and Johns Hopkins University. In 2008, Dr. Kennedy was named president of the "Smart Choices" board. “Smart Choices” is a front of label nutrition benchmarking system, a program whose criteria are based on government dietary guidelines and widely accepted nutritional standards.

Assessing the health and nutrition impacts of policies and programs; nutrient density and diet diversity; interventions for obesity prevention.

Dr. Wilna Oldewage-Theron is a Professor of Nutrition in the College of Human Sciences at TTU where she teaches graduate classes on Issues in Nutrition: Food Security among others. Dr. Oldewage-Theron has fifteen years Community Nutrition research experience in Africa and her research interests include the factors contributing to household food insecurity and malnutrition, specifically micronutrient deficiencies, in resource-poor communities focusing on women, children and the elderly. Her community research and development program at present is mainly focused on soy applications and the nutritional benefits of soy for human health in South Africa.

Her research interests include the factors contributing to household food insecurity and malnutrition, specifically micro nutrient deficiencies, in resource-poor communities focusing on women, children and the elderly.

Theresa Loomis received her B.S from the University of Rhode Island and her M.S. and Doctorate of Clinical Nutrition from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. She is a Registered Dietitian (RD) with 11 years of experience in neonatal and pediatric nutrition. Theresa has conducted research in a number of areas related to the nutrition care of the high-risk infant, including the impact of a Registered Dietitian in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) setting on the adequacy of parenteral nutrition administration and the timeliness of the initiation of enteral nutrition, the use of post-discharge formulas in low birth weight (LBW) infants after discharge from the NICU, and the adequacy of vitamin D intake in LBW infants. Her doctoral work looked at the impact of standardized feeding guidelines for low birth weight infants on enteral nutrition administration, growth, and bone and liver health and was recently published in the Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition. She has publications on the use of probiotics for infants and on nutrition after NICU discharge. Currently Theresa is an Assistant Professor at SUNY Oneonta and is the Director of the Masters Program and Dietetics Internship.

Use of and Benefits of Conducting Nutrition Focused Physical Exam by RD's in the clinical setting, Prevalence and Barriers to RD's practicing in the NICU, Vitamin D administration in Children with Obesity, The impact of Role Modelling on Weight Loss in children with Obesity.

After completing studies at the renowned School for Complementary and Natural Medicine, Southern Cross University, Australia, Keonie Moore has become a highly sought-after presenter for her experience in scientific implementation. As the director of ReMed Natural Medicine Clinic, a multi-modality clinic that exemplifies scientific implementation in the Australian Health sector, Keonie is involved in clinical mentoring to enhance additional integrative clinics and practitioners in the assimilation of research findings and evidence into clinical practice.

Keonie Moore is involved in clinical mentoring to enhance additional integrative clinics and practitioners in the assimilation of research findings and evidence into clinical practice.