HHNS Seminar Series - Dr. Nana Gletsu Miller
Date and Time
Location
Zoom and Food Science, Room 146
Details
Youth Onset Type 2 Diabetes: Does Diet Play a Role?
- Dr. Nana Gletsu Miller
- Associate Professor
- Department of Appled Health, School of Public Health
- Indiana University - Bloomington
Associate Professor Gletsu Miller is affiliated with Applied Health Science in the School of Public Health at Indiana University - Bloomington. She obtained a PhD in Nutrition and Metabolism from the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada. She then underwent a postdoctoral fellowship in Pathology and Molecular Biology at Emory University. Afterwards, she served as an Assistant Professor in Surgery at Emory, and then as Assistant and Associate Professor with tenure in Nutrition Science at Perdue University. The vision of Dr. Gletsu Miller's research program is to evaluate nutritional solutions to promote the health of individuals undergoing clinical management of obesity and diabetes. One focus of her research is developing effective and safe diet and supplemental strategies for improving nutritional outcomes following bariatric surgery. A separate research program focuses on prevention of youth-onset type 2 diabetes in adolescents who have obesity and prediabetes. Dr. Gletsu Millar modifies nutritional status via diet and nutritional supplement interventions and she assesses nutritional status using state of the art anthropometry, biochemical, clinical, and dietary methods.