School of Food and Nutritional Sciences
Dr. Paula Dworatzek
Associate Professor, School of Food and Nutritional Sciences
Tel: 519.432.8353 x28254
Email: pdworatz@uwo.ca
Research Areas: Children’s food intake at school, food skills, diabetes, peer education
Area of Expertise: Food skills/literacy, children’s food intake, food environments, survey methodology,
nutrition clinical practice guidelines for diabetes, peer education
Dr. Danielle Battram
Associate Professor, School of Food and Nutritional Sciences
Tel: 519.432.8353 x.28228
Email: dbattra@uwo.ca
Research Areas & Expertise: Childhood obesity and eating patterns and behaviours, school-based programming, general healthy eating, caffeine-related topics
Dr. Jamie Seabrook
Associate Professor, School of Food and Nutritional Sciences
Tel: 519.432.8353 x28284
Email: jseabro2@uwo.ca
Research Areas: Socioeconomic status and health inequality, fetal origins of adult disease, adolescent
mental health and substance use, study design and advanced statistical methods
Area of Expertise: Social determinants of child and adolescent health disparities, social determinants
of adverse birth outcomes
Dr. Sharareh Hekmat
Professor, School of Food and Nutritional Sciences
Tel: 519.432.8353 x28227
E-mail: hekmat@uwo.ca
Research Areas: Probiotic yogurt for health and nutrition, probiotic yogurt production and safety
in Tanzania and Kenya, “Western Heads East” internship program in Africa, novel probiotic
yogurt supplemented with micronutrients for patients with HIV/AIDS or other immunodeficiencies,
development of new functional foods, establishing standard methods for products served
to patients with dysphagia, testing of health care professionals and trainees’ perceptions
of thickened juice products used in Canada for the treatment of dysphagia
Area of Expertise: Probiotic dairy products and functional Foods
Dr. Latifeh Ahmadi
Associate Professor, School of Food and Nutritional Sciences
Tel: 519.432.8353 x28068
Email: lahmadi@uwo.ca
Area of Expertise: Phyto-nutrients, polyphenolic compounds, functional foods
Dr. Brenda Hartman
Assistant Professor, School of Food and Nutritional Sciences
Tel: 519.432.8353 x28256
Email: bhartma5@uwo.ca
Research Areas: Infant and maternal nutrition, one-carbon nutrients and dietary intake, dietary supplements
Area of Expertise: Infant and maternal nutrition, one-carbon nutrients and dietary intake, dietary supplements
Dr. Janet Madill
Associate Professor, School of Food and Nutritional Sciences
Tel: 519.432.8353 x28240
Email: jmadill7@uwo.ca
Research Areas: Nutrigenomics, measuring muscle mass, identifying sarcopenia in a variety of patient populations including the elderly, patients with chronic disease conditions and transplant patients, vitamin D status and intake in young healthy females, interstitial lung disease patients, liver, lung and kidney and kidney-pancreas pre and post transplant patients;and pulmonary hypertension patients
Area of Expertise: Nutrigenomics, malnutrition, transplantation, sarcopenia, vitamin D status