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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
drug metabolism, and obesity and cancer. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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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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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 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.
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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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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.
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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 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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