Training

We welcome undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and post-doctoral students who are interested in nutrition, diet, body composition and/or human metabolism as a component of clinical and translational research.

Our Core program provides an opportunity for research experience in nutrition, diet assessment, body composition methods, nutrition education and counseling, medical nutrition therapy, nutrition and physical activity interventions, and basic metabolic processes and methods of analysis.

In addition to participating in current Core projects, our students participate in our weekly nutrition and metabolism journal club and study team meetings.

Contact Dr. Heidi J. Silver if you are interested.