Professor, Department Chair
University of California, Davis
Dr. Francene Steinberg is a Professor, Corrine L. Rustici Endowed Chair in Human Nutrition, and Chairperson of the Nutrition Department, University of California Davis. She is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Director of the Didactic Program in Dietetics at UC Davis. She received her PhD from UC Davis and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington - School of Medicine prior to joining the faculty at UC Davis. She has 25 years of academic experience in research and teaching about health and nutritional sciences. Dr. Steinberg’s research program focuses on foods, food components and food choices that impact health outcomes. Specific areas of interest are the physiologic effects of bioactive food components to reduce risk factors for cardiovascular and obesity-related chronic diseases. Her research objectives are to examine dietary biomarkers and metabolic responses that contribute to nutritional phenotypes and the foundation of precision nutrition.