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Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Maryland, College Park Dr. Nadine Sahyoun is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Nutrition and Food Science and an affiliate faculty at the Center on Aging at the University of Maryland. Previously, Dr. Sahyoun served as a Nutritionist at the Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion in the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC and as a Senior Staff Fellow for the Office of Analysis, Epidemiology and Health Promotion for the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland. She has also served as Acting Director of the Nutrition Services Department at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, and as Assistant Director of the Office of Nutrition of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. Additionally, she was a Nutritionist for Women, Infants, and Children’s Supplementary Food Program (WIC) in Leominster, Massachusetts and Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Boston. Dr. Sahyoun is widely published in peer-reviewed journals, such as the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, American Journal of Epidemiology, Journal of the American Dietetic Association and New England Journal of Medicine. She has chapters in college textbooks including Clinical Nutrition, Quick Reference to Clinical Nutrition and Nutritional Biochemistry and Metabolism with Clinical Applications. She also serves on editorial boards for The Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging, Journal of Nutrition for the Elderly and Nutrition Today.Dr. Sahyoun earned her B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Boston and her M.S. in Nutrition from the University of Iowa. She received her Ph.D. in Nutrition from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, at Tufts University and served as a postdoctoral research fellow with the Association for Teachers in Preventive Medicine (ATPM) Office of Analysis, Epidemiology and Health Promotion at the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland. | 