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Name:                                                Padmaja Lakkakula

Current Degree Program:                 Ph.D.

Division:                                            HNF

 

Research Topic or title:                     Food Preferences and Childhood Overweight

 

Previous education:                          Master’s in Human Ecology (HNF)

 

Previous professional experience:   Teaching Assistant in HUEC from January 2005 to May 2006

 

Awards and Recognition:                  Dietician in a diabectic Center for 1 year – June 2003 to April 2004 in India

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Name:                                                Li Shen

Current degree program:                  M.S.

Division:                                             HNF

Research topic or title:                      Dietary resistant starch increases hypothalamic POMC expression independent of capsaicin-sensitive neurons

 

Previous education:                          MS

 

Previous professional experience:   Internal medicine

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Name:                                                Julianne Hamilton

Current degree program:                  M.S.

Division:                                             HNF

 

Research topic or title:                      NONE

 

Previous education:                           Kinesiology – Human Movement (LSU)

 

Previous professional experience:   Personal Trainer at Definitions

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Name:                                                Emily McAllister

Current degree program:                  Ph.D.

Division:                                             HNF

Research topic or title:                      The Mechanism by which Ad-36 Improves Insulin Sensitivity

 

Previous education:                           B.S. in Nutritional Sciences from Michigan State University

 

Previous professional experience:   Awards and recognition:  Awarded the Clara Tucker Graduate Scholarship in 2007 and Awarded an Assistantship

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Name:                                                 Denise M Holston, MS, LDN, RD

Current degree program:                   Ph.D.

Division:                                             HFN

 

Research topic or title:                      Use of service learning and communication intensive classes to facilitate undergraduate students’ acquisition of knowledge and skills required by the Commission on Accreditation for Dietetics Education

 

Previous education:                            Louisiana State University, December 2004, Dietetic Internship.Louisiana State University, May 2004, Master of Science Human Nutrition and Foods. Louisiana State University, May 2001, Bachelor of Science Dietetics.

 

Previous professional experience:

 

Positions:
1/03-5/04:                  Community Nutrition Research Graduate Assistant, LSU AgCenter, Baton Rouge, LA
5/04-12/04:                Dietetic Intern, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
11/04—present :        Program Coordinator and Instructor, LSU AgCenter, Baton Rouge, LA

 

Professional Registration/Licensure:
2005-present: American Dietetic Association: RD #932624
2005-present: Louisiana Dietitian/Nutritionist License #1955

 

Awards and recognition:

 

Honors:
2003:             Recipient, Barbara and Larry Chachere Endowed Fellowship
2004:            Selected as graduate student representative of LSU Center for                      Excellence in Learning and Teaching Committee
2007:             Recipient, Gulf South Summit Scholarship

 

Publications:

2005:   Murphy, E., Holston, DM, Tuuri, G. (2005). Smart Bodies: Louisiana Responds to Youth Overweight. Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences.97(2), 61-62.

 

2007:   Holston, DM, O’Neil, CE. Students' Evaluation of a Communication-Intensive, Service-Learning Project in a Dietetics Course NACTA Journal (submitted 11/05/07).

 

2007:   O’Neil CE, Holston D.  Communication Across the Curriculum: The Future of Dietetics Education?  DEPLine Newsletter.  2007

Holston D, O’Neil CE.  Communication Across the Curriculum: The Changing of Medical Nutrition Therapy into a Communication Intensive Course.  DEPLine Newsletter.  2007.

 

Abstracts:

2004:   Holston, DM, O’Neil, CE, Guarino, AM, Keenan, MJ. (2004). Assessing Perception of Family Nutrition Program Characteristics and Nutrition Education Needs of Low Income Women. JADA. 104 (8), 60.

 

2006:   Silverman L., Tuuri, G. Solmon, M., Guarino, A., Roy, H., Holston, D., Murphy, E. (2006).  Does a multi-component school-based intervention program increase knowledge and improve attitudes about fruits and vegetables in elementary school children? JNEB 38(1), S51.

 

2007:   O’Neil CE, Holston DM.  Incorporating Communication across the Curriculum in a Senior Level Nutritional Sciences Course: Student Attitudes and Perceptions.  NACTA Journal 2007;51:110.

Silverman L, Holston DM, Tuuri G, Solmon M, Keenan M, Zanovec M, and Murphy E (2007). Evaluating the Impact of the Smart Bodies School-Based Intervention Program to Increase Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Elementary School Students. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 107(8) :A89.

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Name:                                                  Brandy M. Williams

Current degree program:                   M.S

Division:                                             HFN

 

Previous education:                          B.S., Animal, Dairy, and Poultry Sciences: Science and Technology (2004) Louisiana State University

 

Previous professional experience:   (2006-present) Graduate Research Assistant, LSU Cooperative Extension Service, Expanded food and Nutrition Education Program(EFNEP)

(2002-2004) Undergraduate Research Assistant, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Taste Genetics Lab

 

Awards and recognition:       Recipient, Larry and Barbara Chachere Endowed Fellowship
Member, National Society of Collegiate Scholars
Member, Golden Key National Honour Society
Member, Gamma Beta Phi,
Recipient, Tops Performance Award
Dean’s List

 

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