Biography
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Katie Brown is a senior in the didactic program at University of Illinois Champiagn-Urbana, majoring in Food Science and Human Nutrition with a concentration in dietetics. She will be attending University at Buffalo for her Dietetic internship in the fall. Originally from San Diego, California Katie chose to come to UIUC for its outstanding program in dietetics and integration with other world renowned departments in research, food science, agriculture and food service management. She is passionate about helping anyone in need and has always been an active member in her community.
Her first leadership role was working for Residential Life at Florida Avenue Residency Halls. There she created programs to help new students overcome nervousness and meet new people within their dorm community. She furthered her leadership experience by becoming UIUC NutrImpact President in 2013. NutrImpact strives to provide the community with free, scientifically accurate, nutrition education and workshops. She has grown the club and enjoys the new community members they are working with. Katie has many other experiences such as food service management, instructional cooking, peritoneal dialysis menu creation, writing original evidenced based nutrition articles, food ingredient research, hospital dietary volunteering, and undergraduate research assistantship which is described in more detail in the experience section.
Her first leadership role was working for Residential Life at Florida Avenue Residency Halls. There she created programs to help new students overcome nervousness and meet new people within their dorm community. She furthered her leadership experience by becoming UIUC NutrImpact President in 2013. NutrImpact strives to provide the community with free, scientifically accurate, nutrition education and workshops. She has grown the club and enjoys the new community members they are working with. Katie has many other experiences such as food service management, instructional cooking, peritoneal dialysis menu creation, writing original evidenced based nutrition articles, food ingredient research, hospital dietary volunteering, and undergraduate research assistantship which is described in more detail in the experience section.
Goals
Her future career plans are to work with the most intense complicated nutritional cases because these patients' often have the worse quality of life. These patients conditions offer an exciting challenge where accuracy, proper patient education, evidence based medicine, and deep knowledge are crucial. In the long term she hopes to implement new medical nutrition therapies and conduct clinical trials in hopes of bettering patient outcomes and increasing quality of life.
Dietetic Interest Areas
- Prebiotics/probiotics and its relation to the gut brain axis
- Geriatrics
- Renal disease, renal dysfunction and dialysis (hemo and peritoneal)
- Premature infant nutrition (NICU)
- Genetic Metabolic Disorders
- Enteral and Parenteral nutrition
- Bariatric surgery and diet phases
- School/workplace food programs