Srilakshmi Nutrition Science

[Kizzy Burnworth]

TheAcademy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation is excited to be collaborating with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics' Research, International, and Scientific Affairs team and other stakeholders and partners to create and offer fellowship opportunities for current and future credentialed food and nutrition practitioners at all career levels that advance fellow skills, knowledge, and visibility, hone the fellow's expertise, and advance the Foundation and Academy strategic plans. Any person may apply for Foundation fellowships and will be given fair and protected-class-neutral consideration for a fellowship.

Our Foundation has invested more than $2.3 million in our 33 fellows as well as over $5.3 million in their related projects over the last 12 years. Fellows conduct research and provide nutrition education that improves and sustains nutritional health locally and globally, including robust dissemination activities.

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation is seeking a doctoral-prepared member of the Academy to apply for the Grace L. Ostenso Nutrition and Public Policy Fellowship. In collaboration with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, this opportunity allows the fellow to spend one year serving on the staff of a member of Congress or on a congressional committee as a special assistant in the legislative area that will benefit from scientific input. This is a full-time fellowship that requires the fellow be onsite in Washington DC throughout the duration of the fellowship from September 1, 2024 - August 31, 2025. Applications are due by 3:00 pm CT on Tuesday, May 7, 2024.

Monique Richard, MS, RDN, LDN, FAND, IFNCP, RYT, is an award-winning RD with a Master of Science degree in Clinical Nutrition and a minor in Psychology, and she is a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) and owner of Nutrition-In-Sight in Johnson City, Tennessee. Monique sees clients in her private practice using an integrative and functional medicine focused approach, and she offers nutrition communication, consulting, and counseling services virtually and in person. She has written numerous informative articles and presentations to students, colleagues, and clients on leadership, integrative and functional nutrition, private practice, telehealth, and the value of the dietitian's role in health care and public health and worked in outpatient primary care facilities, serving a broad and diverse patient population ranging from pediatrics to geriatrics with a variety of conditions and nutritional needs.

Monique is an avid writer, leader, presenter, and educator, bringing an international health perspective to her work from having participated in teaching, fieldwork, and academic presentations in Haiti, Egypt, China, India, Italy, and Israel. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (FAND), is Past President of the International Affiliate of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (IAAND), has served as adjunct faculty at two local universities, and is regularly interviewed for a variety of media outlets.

In her fellowship, Monique will be leading a program of work focused on developing both the microcertification model for the Academy's Center for Lifelong Learning as well as the first microcertification focused on integrative and functional nutrition.

Dr. Shaikh is the recipient of two NIH Fogarty Global Health Fellowships and completed her post-doctoral training in nutrition and chronic disease at Emory University. Her research interests focus on the intersection between nutrition, food insecurity and chronic diseases and in developing and evaluating dietary assessment instruments to assess shifts in diets following globalization and development. When she is not working, you can find her reading and doing jigsaw puzzles. She lives in Atlanta with her husband and son.

In her role as the ConAgra Foods Foundation Nutrition Education Research Fellow at the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Jenica Abram worked as a primary member of the project team responsible for the design and validation of the Guide for Effective Nutrition Interventions and Education.

Stephen Alajajian is a registered dietitian nutritionist with a passion for serving culturally and linguistically diverse people. Through his fellowship, he is currently working with Maya Health Alliance/Wuqu' Kawoq in Tecpn, Guatemala. In this role, he is overseeing the implementation research and quality improvement aspects of a garden research project and participating in nutrition-related efforts for the organization. Prior to this fellowship year, he served as a Foundation Fellow with Gardens for Health International in Rwanda as Senior Nutrition Technical Adviser. He completed his undergraduate degree in dietetics at University of Vermont and his dietetic internship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Previously, he worked as a nutrition consultant for the Clinica Sanjuanerita in Guatemala and as a maternal-child nutritionist at the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center.

Marie is passionate about pursuing pedagogical practices to increase undergraduate student engagement as well as diversity and inclusion. Her line of scholarship of teaching and learning includes using multi-media to engage students, collaborative learning, service-learning, and flipped classrooms. In fall of 2019, Marie was a fellow of Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation (IMPACT), which was a Chronicle of Higher Education 2018 Innovator for promoting classroom culture change. Prior to joining academia, she accrued over a decade of work experience as a registered dietitian in clinical, community, and customer service settings in in the South. Subsequent to completing her Doctor of Public Health degree in 2015, Marie held full-time posts at Miami University (OH) and later at Mississippi State University. Marie Allsopp has received recognition professionally as a practitioner, program (DPD) director, and assistant professor for her dedication and service and is a member of NDEP, NOBIDAN, and the DBC DPG.

Dr. Betsy Anderson Steeves is a Senior Research Scientist with the Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition. Prior to this role, she was an Assistant Professor in the Public Health Nutrition program and Director of the HEALTHE Research Lab at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Through her fellowship, she led a research project focused on evaluating innovative solutions that increased the supply of nutritious food for food insecure individuals in rural, suburban, and urban communities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lauren Au is an Assistant Researcher at University of California, Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Nutrition Policy Institute. The Foundation fellowship provided her the opportunity to serve one year as a Congressional fellow in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Amanda Berhaupt previously served as the Research & Engagement Advisor for the Access to Nutrition Initiative, a non-profit that benchmarks food and beverage manufacturers' nutrition commitments, practices, and disclosures.

Amanda is an active member of the Academy and its International affiliate. Additionally, she is the owner of her own consulting company, ABG Consulting, LLC, where she provides technical support to companies on a variety of research topics. Prior to these roles, she served as an ORISE Research Fellow for the US Food & Drug Administration from 2014-2015.

Sandra Carpenter served as Simulation Research Fellow at Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Greater Pittsburgh Area Health, Wellness and Fitness. As a registered dietitian specializing in diabetes management, nutrition support, cardiovascular health and food service management, she is a passionate educator and worksite wellness professional who leads by example.

Through the EAC Fellowship, Josie completed a mentored research program utilizing a systematic review and meta-analysis approach. The project sought to examine the effectiveness of medical nutrition therapy in individuals with prediabetes to reduce the instance of progression to type 2 diabetes. The effect of MNT on additional anthropometric and biochemical measurements in prediabetic individuals is being analyzed in conjunction. During the fellowship, Josie also attended the WHO/Cochrane/Cornell University Summer Institute for Systematic Reviews in Nutrition for Global Policy.

Janice Giddens was the first Gardens for Health International Fellow in Rwanda. During her fellowship, she developed and implemented an antenatal nutrition pilot curriculum reaching hundreds of women and families and participated in Ministry of Health Technical Nutrition meetings.

Her doctoral research is focused on understanding, preventing and correcting childhood obesity through the promotion of healthy eating behaviors. She has worked on several research projects, including ones that examined intervention studies aimed at testing strategies to reduce childhood obesity within a family setting, parental influences on eating behaviors, rapid weight gain in early infancy and toddlerhood, and challenges within the dietetic profession.

Alex Mohr is a PhD candidate currently enrolled in the Exercise and Nutritional Sciences doctoral program at Arizona State University. He is also seeking his registered dietitian nutritionist credential from the ACEND-accredited ASU program.

Gabriela Montenegro-Bethancourt is a Guatemalan nutritionist who is interested in improving the quality of life in children with fewer opportunities to develop their full potential through promoting adequate nutrition. Currently, she is a Research Manager with the Maya Health Alliance.

Prior to her fellowship, Gabriela served as a research methods teacher in various universities in her hometown (Quetzaltenango, Guatemala) and as an affiliated researcher at CeSSIAM (a research Institute in Guatemala), where she worked on a number of nutrition-related studies. She is member of the Nutrition Leaders Program for the Latin American region (IUNS) and the Guatemalan Academy of Medical, Physics and Natural Sciences.

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