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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 drug metabolism, and obesity and cancer.


 
 

Polly A. Carroll, M.A., R.D., L.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dietetics and Nutrition and Director of the Dietetic Internship. Her research and clinical interests are in food allergies and community wellness screening programs, as well as in human resources and clinical management.


 

Ruth Johnston, M.S., R.D., L.D.,  is an Education Specialist for the Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System and Assistant Director of the Dietetic Internship.  She is an instructor in the Department of Dietetics and Nutrition and course director for the Practicum in Administrative Dietetics.  Her special interests are in geriatrics and education. 


 


Margaret M Harris, M.S. Ph.D.
, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dietetics and Nutrition.  Her research interests include nutritional epidemiology as well as obesity and fat distribution (in particular, ethnic differences in body composition and stress).  Other interests include nutrition education, community nutrition, and the mind-body connection for disease prevention.
 

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.
 


 

 

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.

 

 

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.
 

 

 

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.
 
 

Nicolaas E.P. Deutz, M.D., Ph.D.  Dr. Deutz joined UAMS in 2006 as Professor in the Center for Translational Research in Aging & Longevity of the Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).  He also received secondary appointments in the Department of Dietetics and Nutrition of the College of Health Related Professions and in the Department of Pediatrics in the College of Medicine at UAMS.  Dr Deutz has over 20 years experience in clinical nutrition and metabolism research in animals and humans and has published over 200 papers in this research field.  He studied medicine at the University of Amsterdam and obtained his M.D. in 1983.  After a short period as a Clinical Fellow at the Department of Neurosurgery in Amsterdam, he initiated his basic neurochemical research at the University of Amsterdam and Delft University of Technology, both in the Netherlands, earning his Ph.D. in 1988 with his thesis on hepatic encephalopathy.  He next joined the Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism Group of the Department of Surgery of Maastricht University, also in The Netherlands.  Since then, 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. He is currently principal investigator of many federal and industry-sponsored research projects. In 2000, he was appointed Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at Maastricht University. Throughout his scientific career, he continuously supervised Ph.D. students and is co-organizer of a number of international post-graduate courses.  He became a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ESPEN) in 1988, and from 2000 to 2005 he chaired this committee.  Since 2006 he has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Society’s journals: Clinical Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition Supplements, and e-SPEN.
 

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.
 

Ruth Ann Looney, M.S., R.D., L.D., is an Instructor in the Department of Dietetics and Nutrition.  Her interests include community nutrition; school-based nutrition education; clinical nutrition education; and promotion of fresh locally-grown food as it relates to improved health, community, and environment.
 


 

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.

 

Rosemary Rodibaugh, Ph.D., R.D., L.D., is Adjunct 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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