Faculty and Staff

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Latifa S. Abdelli, MS, Ph.D.

Lecturer

Health Sciences

Location: HS II Room: 208

E-mail: [email protected]

Areas of Specialty:

Stem cells in tissue repair and regeneration
Role of Gut-Brain axis in health and disease

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Alexandra Barraza-Oliphant

Administrative Assistant II

Health Sciences

Location: HS II Room: 210E

E-mail: [email protected]

Crisel Borges, MS

Academic Advisor II

Health Sciences

E-mail: [email protected]

Keith Brazendale, Ph.D., MS

Assistant Professor

Health Sciences

Location: HS II Room: 210A

E-mail: [email protected]

Areas of Specialty:

Childhood Obesity
Physical Activity
Sedentary Behavior
sleep

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Steven Burroughs, MS, RDN, LDN, CDN

Instructor

Health Sciences

Location: HS II

E-mail: [email protected]

Areas of Specialty:

Critical Care Nutrition Support
Energy and Protein Metabolism and Regulation
Nutritional Management of Chronic Diseases

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Cheryl Cavaliere, Ph.D., MS, RDN, LDN

Lecturer

Health Sciences

Location: HS II Room: 210K

E-mail: [email protected]

Areas of Specialty:

Nutrition for Prenatal and Lactating Women
Nutrition for Children and Infants
Plant-Based Nutrition for Chronic Disease Prevention
Stress and Emotional Eating
Strategies for Resolving Food Insecurity
Food and Exercise as Medicine

Katia Ferdowsi, MD, MPH

Lecturer

Health Sciences

Location: HS II Room: 210J

E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: 407-823-1446

Areas of Specialty:

Disease prevention
Public Health
common and preventable diseases in youth
Global Health

Jeanette Garcia, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Health Sciences

Location: HS II Room: 210L

E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: 407-823-3207

Areas of Specialty:

Health behaviors in youth with social/emotional/behavioral disorders
Community-based health interventions
Link between health behaviors (physical activity, nutrition, sleep, screen time) & academic performance

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Martha Garcia-Stout, PharmD, JD

Lecturer

Health Sciences

Location: HS II Room: 214

E-mail: [email protected]

Grace Gonzalez De Jesus

Academic Advisor III

Health Sciences

E-mail: [email protected]

Shante Jeune, Ph.D., RDN

Assistant Professor

Health Sciences

Location: HS II Room: 209

E-mail: [email protected]

Areas of Specialty:

Nutrition Education
Eating Behaviors
Self-regulation and Cognitive Skills

Gail Kauwell, Ph.D., RDN, LDN, FAND

Department Chair, Professor

Health Sciences

Location: HS II Room: 210C

E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: 407-823-0782

Areas of Specialty:

Folate and vitamin B12 requirements and metabolism
Nutrient-gene interactions/epigenetic alterations and disease risk

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Yen-Han Lee, Ph.D., MPH

Assistant Professor

Health Sciences

Location: HS II Room: 218

E-mail: [email protected]

Areas of Specialty:

Substance Use
Global Health
Health disparities
Geriatric health
Secondary Data Analysis

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Eunkyung “Muriel” Lee, Ph.D., RDN

Assistant Professor

Health Sciences

Location: HS II Room: 213

E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: 407-823-3365

Areas of Specialty:

Evaluation of cancer treatment using the patient-reported outcomes research and comparative effectiveness research approaches
Interrelationship among adjuvant radiotherapy, comorbidity, survival, and health-related quality of life among older women with breast cancer
Evaluation of healthy behaviors among cancer survivors utilizing the National Health and Nutrition Survey (NHANES) data
Evaluation of interventions in improving quality of life among cancer survivors

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