 Human Nutrition Emphasis Group
The human nutrition emphasis group considers the maintenance and promotion of human health. It includes research on prevention or treatment of disease, identifying and clarifying relationships between health/nutrition and various physical or environmental factors, designing and evaluating educational or technical intervention strategies and studying implications for nutrition policies and programs. Research may involve animal models, epidemiological studies, human and clinical studies and education intervention.
Human Nutrition Faculty
Neil C. Binkley, Associate Professor of Medicine, M.D. 1979. Vitamin K insufficiency and osteoporosis.
Hannah V. Carey, Professor of Veterinary Medicine; Ph.D., 1983 Gastrointestinal physiology; intestinal adaptation; mammalian hibernation and its application to biomedicine; cellular and physiological responses to stress.
Richard S. Eisenstein, Professor of Nutritional Sciences; Ph.D., 1985. Iron metabolism; posttranscriptional control of proteins required for the uptake, storage, and use of iron.
John D. Folts, Professor of Medicine; Ph.D., 1972. Health benefits of dietary flavonoids for reducing the initiation and promotion of atherosclerosis, thrombosis, and heart attacks.
Irwin Goldman, Associate Professor of Horticulture; Ph.D. Vegetable breeding and genetics, human health attributes of vegetable crops, history of plant breeding and genetics.
Frank R. Greer, Professor of Pediatrics; M.D., 1972. Infant nutrition: fat soluble vitamins, calcium metabolism, energy requirements, effects of dexamethasone on metabolism.
Guy E. Groblewski, Associate Professor of Nutritional Sciences; Ph.D., 1991. Intracellular signal transduction in gastrointestinal epithelial cells.
Li Li Ji, Professor of Kinesiology; Ph.D., 1985. Free radical biology with respect to exercise, aging, and pathogenesis; gene regulation and nutritional supplements of antioxidants.
Marty S. Kanarek, Professor of Population Health Sciences and Environmental Studies; Ph.D., 1978. Environmental epidemiology; potential population health effects from consumption of fish contaminated with mercury, PCBs, and other chemicals.
Joseph W. Kemnitz, Professor of Physiology (also Director of National Primate Research Center); Ph.D., 1976. Regulation of energy balance; obesity, dietary restriction, and aging.
Pamela J. Kling, Associate Professor of Pediatrics; M.D. 1985. Erythropoiesis, iron metabolism and roles of erythropoietin in early development.
Kenneth A. Kudsk, Professor of Surgery; M.D., 1975. Effect of route and type of nutrition on surgical outcome; mucosal immunity and response to infection.
Huichuan J. Lai, Assistant Professor of Nutritional Sciences; Ph.D., R.D., 1995. Epidemiological studies linking nutrition and disease outcomes in pediatric populations.
Julie A. Mares, Professor of Ophthalmology; Ph.D., 1987. Epidemiological study of relationships between diet and age-related eye disease.
Denise M. Ney, Professor of Nutritional Sciences; Ph.D., 1986. Gastrointestinal physiology, nutrient-hormone interactions, and nutritional management of phenylketonuria.
Susan A. Nitzke, Professor of Nutritional Sciences; Ph.D., 1986. Developing and evaluating techniques to improve the effectiveness of nutrition education.
Michael W. Pariza, Wisconsin Distinguished Professor of Food Microbiology and Toxicology; Ph.D., 1973. Metabolism and mechanisms of action of conjugated linoleic acid.
Joanne Robbins, Professor of Medicine, Sections of Gastroenterology and Geriatrics/Gerontology; M.D. Swallowing/changes with age; dysphagia - its diagnosis and treatment, particularly in elders.
Dale A. Schoeller, Professor of Nutritional Sciences; Ph.D., 1974. Energy metabolism and human obesity, body composition, and stable isotope techniques for macronutrient metabolism.
Philipp W. Simon, Professor of Horticulture; Ph.D., 1977. Biochemical genetics and breeding of carrots, alliums, and cucumber; genetic improvement of vegetable culinary and nutritional value.
Susan M. Smith, Professor of Nutritional Sciences; Ph.D., 1987. Mechanism of vitamin A action in embryogenesis; molecular mechanism of fetal alcohol syndrome.
Roger A. Sunde, Professor of Nutritional Sciences; Ph.D., 1980. Selenium deficiency as a model for nutrient regulation of gene expression; molecular mechanism of selenium regulation and homeostasis; biochemical functions of selenium.
Sherry Tanumihardjo, Associate Professor of Nutritional Sciences; Ph.D., 1993. Vitamin A assessment methodology; carotenoid bioavailability; and international nutrition.
Richard Weindruch, Professor of Medicine; Ph.D., 1978. The biology of aging; studying caloric restriction (CR), which slows the aging process in laboratory animals such as mice, rats, and rhesus monkeys.
Eric Yen, Assistant Professor of Nutritional Sciences; Ph.D. 2000. Intestine, assimilation of dietary fat, and energy balance.
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