Nicole S. Litwin, PhD, RD is currently the Manager of Scientific Affairs at the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation, where she is responsible for translating the Foundation’s funded research into understandable and usable information for internal and external audiences including Foundation stakeholders, patients/caregivers, health care professionals and more. Nicole is also responsible for identifying, collecting, assessing, and communicating the outcomes and impact of the Foundation’s research portfolio.Prior to this position, Nicole was a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Microbiome Innovation (CMI) with the University of California San Diego, where she studied the complex relationship between diet and the human gut microbiome. In addition to her research, Nicole helped support the American Gut Project (AGP) and its expansion into other countries, as well as translation of research studies across CMI and AGP’s communication channels. You can read some of her postdoctoral work here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34617562/ Nicole holds a PhD in Nutrition & Food Science from Colorado State University, where she was a graduate research assistant in the Functional Foods & Human Health Laboratory. Nicole’s PhD research focused on the clinical efficacy of various functional foods (e.g., red beetroot juice, blueberry powder, aronina berry supplement) as a dietary intervention to improve vascular function and reduce cardiovascular disease risk factors (e.g., blood pressure) in high-risk aging populations, particularly postmenopausal women. You can read some of her doctoral work here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31737860/Nicole also holds a Master’s and Bachelor’s of Science in Clinical Nutrition from East Tennessee State University and she is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist.
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