Katie M. Ellison, MS, RD

Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and PhD Candidate
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Katie Ellison is a registered dietitian nutritionist and second year PhD student in the Department of Nutrition Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She has received numerous honors and awards including the American Society for Nutrition's 2024 George Bray Obesity Research Student Award and the Herblife Nutrition Scholarship, the Alabama Dietetic Association's Leadership Scholarship, the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, Alabama Chapter, and the American Society for Nutrition's Emerging Leaders in Nutrition Science Abstract Recognition Award. Katie's research interests are in implementation sciences for translating obesity treatment strategies to clinical and community settings.

Presentation(s):

• 2024 George Bray Outstanding Scientific Achievements Award in Obesity Research Lecture and Student Awards: The Discovery of GLP-1 as a Satiety Hormone and Implications for Management of Obesity

  Sunday, June 30, 2024
  10:00 AM – 11:30 AM CT

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

• (AL02-01-24) Adaptive Dietary and Exercise Strategies for Adults With Prediabetes Trial (ADAPT): A Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial

  Sunday, June 30, 2024
  11:00 AM – 11:15 AM CT

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.