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Scientific Staff:

Nathalie

Nathalie Bergeron, Ph.D.
Associate Staff Scientist
Dr. Bergeron holds a Ph.D. in Nutritional Biochemistry.  Her research is clinical in nature and focuses primarily on the quality of dietary fats and carbohydrates and their relationship to body composition, and lipoprotein metabolism and kinetics in individuals at increased risk for cardiovascular disease.   In addition to her research activities at CHORI, Dr. Bergeron is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences at Touro University California, College of Pharmacy.

Sally

Sally Chiu, Ph.D.
Dr. Sally Chiu, Assistant Staff Scientist, received her PhD degree from UC Davis in Nutritional Biology, where her research focused on mapping obesity genes using congenic mouse models. She joined the Krauss group in 2006 and currently works with the clinical research program, studying the effects of diet on metabolic risk factors for heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

Fred Bauzon, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, fbauzon@chori.org
Eugene Bolotin, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, eubolotin@chori.org
Nastaran Faghihnia, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, nastaran@berkeley.edu
Feng Gao, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, fgao@chori.org
Yu-Lin Kuang, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, ykuang@chori.org
Elizabeth Theusch, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, etheusch@chori.org

Laboratory Staff:

Joseph R. Orr, Staff Research Associate, jorr@chori.org
Bahareh Sahami, Staff Research Associate, bsahami@chori.org
Katie Wojnoonski, B.S., Laboratory Manager, kwojnoonski@chori.org
Larry Wong, B.A., Staff Research Associate, larwong@chori.org

Clinical Staff:

Robin

Robin Rawlings, R.N.
Robin Rawlings, R.N. worked for many years as a critical care and middle management nurse in acute care hospitals. For the past seventeen years she has been Clinical Coordinator and Nurse Manager for the Cholesterol Research Center (CRC), an off-site clinical research unit for CHORI.

The CRC staff, managed by Robin, mainly conducts metabolic and cardiovascular human research studies looking at the interaction between diet, weight and genetic markers for cardiovascular disease. The current study will examine the effects of resistant starch on markers for cardiovascular disease risk.

Megan Bennett, Management Coordinator, mbennett@chori.org
Deborah Brumley, Study Coordinator, dbrumley@chori.org
Kathryn Hoffman, Study Coordinator, khoffman@chori.org
Dani Molien, Study Coordinator, dmolien@chori.org
Carol Procter, Administrative Coordinator, cprocter@chori.org

Administrative Staff:

Myra Gloria, B.B.A.
Sr. Administrative Coordinator (right)
mgloria@chori.org

Larissa David
Administrative Coordinator (left)
ladavid@chori.org

 

Revised: Friday, February 10, 2012 9:50 AM

 

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