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BIONUTRITION
Kathleen Farrell is
a registered dietitian, certified health fitness instructor and has a
Masters degree in exercise physiology. Kathleen received her B.S. in
dietetics from the College of St. Teresa’s in Winona,
MN, completed her dietetic internship at
Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati,
OH and got her Masters from
the University of Illinois-Urbana. She has 23 years of experience as a
dietitian (community, clinical, education, research and sports
nutrition). In the research area, Kathleen worked as a research associate
at the University
of Illinois Body Composition Laboratory
where she oversaw several body composition studies and provided nutrition
support. As a dietitian, Kathleen has worked in both a community (WIC
– Rapid City, SD)
and clinical (Cardiac – Cheyenne, WY) setting as a dietitian and additionally, as a
dietitian-exercise physiologist in a Sports Medicine clinic (Urbana - Champaign,
IL). She has also had the
opportunity to teach at the University level, University
of Illinois and University
of Northern Colorado, Greeley, and the University of Colorado-Boulder.
Kathleen’s areas of interest are regional fat distribution in
relationship to chronic diseases and sports nutrition.
Becky Staley is a registered dietetic technician, having
received her AAS in Dietetic Technology from Front Range Community
College and her registration credentialing
from the American Dietetics Association in 2006. Becky has completed 450 internship
hours in clinical and community nutrition settings and has experience
working with a research based nutrition education program funded by the
USDA. In 2006, Becky was
selected as Outstanding Dietetics Student of the year by the Colorado
Dietetic Association. Becky
is a member of the American Dietetic Association, the Northern Colorado
Dietetic Association, and the Denver Metro Nutrition Network.
Services
The Bionutrition Department provides the following services to
the GCRC investigators and others in the CU-Boulder clinical research
community.
- Meet with investigators
during the development and implementation of their protocols and the
need for nutrition core support services (Dietary Protocol).
- Assist with protocol
flow sheet development (Protocol
Checklist).
- Interview participants
to obtain detailed information on their dietary intake (Dietary Record, FFQ, 24 Hour Recall
and Research Diet).
- Provide participants
with dietary instructions prior to certain measurements (General Guidelines).
- Interview participants
for their food preferences that will be used in promoting compliance
with a planned research diet (Food
Preferences).
- Calculate energy,
electrolyte and other dietary needs for participants' meals (Research Diet - Arginine).
- Provide post-experiment
food for participants studied under fasting conditions prior to
leaving the unit (Post-Meal Menu).
- Provide dietary
counseling and education for protocols involving nutrition
interventions (Low-Sodium
Handout).
- Screen subject's
nutritional status for risk factors.
- Mentor recent advances in
software associated with computer-assisted analysis of diet.
- Provide nutrition
education and training for GCRC investigators, staff, clinical
research trainees and dietetic interns.
Our metabolic kitchen is available through University Memorial
Center (UMC) at the University
of Colorado - Boulder. Robin Margolin,
Associate Director UMC Food Service, and her staff are responsible for
the development and testing of new foods and recipes for research diets
and for research projects to develop new approaches to therapeutic diets (http://www.colorado.edu/umc/).
Please feel free to
contact Kathleen
Farrell, Research Bionutritionist at (303.735.2125), for
assistance in determining the appropriate diet and nutrition parameters
for your study. Recommendations will be made based on current nutrition
research methods and established metabolic requirements for the
participants participating in the protocol.
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