I have been an academician and nutrition researcher for much of my life. I attended Duke University where I earned my BA and when on to achieve my PhD in Nutrition from North Carolina State University. I did 2 postdoctoral research associateships: one at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and another at the Eleanor Roosevelt Cancer Institute in Denver. I then moved to Philadelphia, PA where I became an assistant professor of Nutrition at Drexel University. While there, I taught undergraduate and graduate nutrition courses, ran a research program and trained undergraduate and graduate students. I was then recruited by Schering Plough where I did pharmaceutical research for the next 5 years. My husband’s pharmaceutical company, Berlex Biosciences then decided to move their research facility to California. Berlex decided to hire me as well and so my husband and I and our 2 children moved to Walnut creek, CA where we have lived for over 20 years. After 2 years of working at Berlex with 2 children in school, I retired from pharmaceutical research and began teaching part time at Cal State University East Bay teaching both introductory and clinical nutrition. I am also part time faculty at 2 local community colleges: Diablo Valley College and Las Positas College where I teach introductory nutrition for majors, introductory nutrition for non-majors as well as a mixed major class. For the past 5 years I have also worked with McGraw Hill as a subject matter expert, digital faculty consultant and author of digital content accompanying several nutrition texts.
