Assistant Professor
Oklahoma State University
I am a Registered Dietitian and an Assistant Professor of Public Health Nutrition in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at Oklahoma State University. I am originally from Pittsburgh, PA, where I did my BS and MS/DI at the University of Pittsburgh in Clinical Dietetics and Nutrition. After graduation, I spent 9 years moving around the country with my husband for his active duty Army service working in a variety of settings from in-patient clinical and out-patient eating disorder treatment to home health and childcare menu development. My area of expertise lies in assessing how healthy the diet is, or dietary quality, and in designing programs to improve dietary quality of large groups of people. I focus currently on improving dietary quality through school nutrition and with tactical athletes, including firefighters, police officers, and military personnel and their families. For the latter, I am co-director of the OSU Tactical Fitness and Nutrition Lab. TFAN's mission is to improve the health, fitness, and occupational performance of tactical athletes through education, research, and outreach.