Professor of Nutrition
Academic Department: Biomedical Sciences
School/College: Osteopathic Medicine
Email: kearly@pnwu.edu
Fields:
- Nutrition – acute care and outpatient medical nutrition therapy (MNT)
- Obesity, adult and pediatric
- Diabetes, type 1 and type 2, adult and pediatric
Areas of Expertise:
- Diabetes, obesity, and chronic disease self-management education and outcomes
- Health outcomes among people living in medically underserved and rural communities
- Health disparities
- Quality of life
Methodological Expertise:
- Qualitative and quantitative data collection (e.g., focus groups, in-depth interviews, and survey modalities) and analysis
- Impact of culture, race, and ethnic identity on nutrition-related outcomes
- Secondary analysis of large public datasets (e.g., NHANES)
Current Projects:
- Outcomes in the Healthy Eating Index among adult participants from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
- Impact of Culinary Medicine on medical students’ personal and professional behaviors
- Quality of life and disease prevalence among Asian Indian adult participants from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)
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