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Faculty
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Chairman, Reza Hakkak, Ph.D.,
is an Professor in the Department of Dietetics and
Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, and College of Public Health.
He is Chairman of the Department of Dietetics and Nutrition. His
current research interests are influence of diet and nutrition on
cancer prevention, nutrition education, interactions of food and
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Amanda Wells Dawson, M.S., R.D., L.D., is an Instructor in the
Department of Dietetics and Nutrition and Interim Director of the
Dietetic Internship. Her research and clinical interests are in
energy metabolism and geriatric nutrition. She also has a special
interest in nutrient databases and analysis systems.
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Donna Rhoads, M.S., R.D., L.D., is an Instructor in the Department
of Dietetics and Nutrition and Assistant Director of the Dietetic
Internship. Her research and clinical interests are Geriatric
Nutrition, Adult Education, and Management of Foodservice
Operations.
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Nicholas P. Hays, Ph.D.
is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dietetics and
Nutrition with an additional appointment as a Research Assistant
Professor in the Nutrition, Metabolism, and Exercise Laboratory
within the Donald W. Reynolds Department of Geriatrics, UAMS College
of Medicine. His research areas of interest include age-related
changes in energy metabolism, body composition, and eating behavior,
with an emphasis on examining nutritional and exercise interventions
designed to improve the health of older individuals.
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Dana Barber
Gonzales, PhD, MHSA is an Assistant Professor in the Department
of Dietetics and Nutrition. She maintains adjunct appointments with
the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College Of Public
Health as Assistant Professor in the Health Policy and Management
Section. Research interests include preschool obesity, community
health education, health nutrition and wellness, children with
special health care needs, individuals with disabilities, obesity,
chronic health issues, graduate education and program evaluation.
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Polly A. Carroll, M.A.,
R.D., L.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dietetics
and Nutrition. Her research
and clinical interests are in food allergies and community wellness
screening programs, as well as in human resources and clinical
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Verna Baker, MS,
R.D., L.D., is an Instructor in the Department of Dietetics and
Nutrition. Ms. Baker is the Course Director for Nutrition Counseling
and the Nutrition Program Manager for KIDS FIRST, UAMS Department of
Pediatrics. Research and clinical interest include nutrition
counseling and education, pediatric nutrition, and nutrition
management of children with special health care needs. |
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Margaret L. Bogle, Ph.D., R.D., L.D., is Executive Director of
the Lower Mississippi Delta Nutrition Intervention Research
Initiative. In addition, she is an Associate Professor in the
Department of Dietetics and Nutrition and an Adjunct Assistant
Professor in the Department of Pediatrics. Her current research
interests are in pediatric nutrition, the development of pediatric
nutrition specialists, and nutrition intervention methodology.
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Lynn
Christie, MS, R.D., L.D., is an Instructor in the Department of
Dietetics and Nutrition and also a clinical dietitian that works
with the pediatric food allergy patients at Arkansas Children
Hospital. She is involved with research investigating the
nutritional status of children with food allergies, threshold
studies, and the natural history of food allergies. She also is a
clinical coordinator for formula studies and pharmaceutical studies
investigating anit-lgE drugs. She is involved with and writes for
the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network.
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Nicolaas E.P. Deutz, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Deutz is a Professor in the Center for Translational Research in
Aging & Longevity of the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging with
secondary appointments in the Department of Dietetics and Nutrition
and Department of Pediatrics in the College of Medicine. He has
published over 200 papers in this research field. His clinical
interest is using nutritional supplements to treat malnutrition in
elderly and during acute and chronic disease states. He has focused
his research on (inter)organ protein and amino acid metabolism using
animals (mice, rats, pigs), healthy humans, and patients with
various acute and chronic diseases, including (pre)diabetes, cancer,
COPD, sepsis, liver and gut failure. Since 2006, he has served as
Editor-in-Chief of the societies journals: Clinical Nutrition,
Clinical Nutrition Supplements, and e-SPEN.
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William J. Evans, Ph.D., Professor of Geriatrics, Nutrition, and
Physiology. Dr. Evans is the director of the Nutrition Metabolism
and Exercise Laboratory. His research interests focus on the
interaction between exercise, nutrition, and aging. Specifically,
his laboratory is currently examining the effects of weight loss and
exercise on insulin-stimulated glucose disposal, body composition.
In addition, his laboratory is examining the effects of dietary
protein and exercise on kidney function, body composition and
functional status in old men and women with chronic renal failure.
He and his colleagues are also examining the adaptive responses to
exercise in young and older individuals, particularly in skeletal
muscle biopsies.
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Donald Mock M.D.,
Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,
Pediatrics and Dietetics and Nutrition. He is Associate Director of
the UAMS Clinical Research Center. Research interests include the
nutrition of biotin in humans, particularly the role of biotin
deficiency in teratogenesis and in other states of accelerated
biotin degradation, and in the use of the biotin label to measure
red blood cell mass and survival and erythropoetin pharmacokinetics
non-radioactivly in infants and children. |
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Rosemary Rodibaugh,
Ph.D., R.D., L.D., is Assistant Professor in the
Department of Dietetic and Nutrition and she is the Extension
Nutrition Specialist with the University of Arkansas Cooperative
Extension Service. Dr. Rodibaugh's main research interest is
nutrition education. |
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