Professor, Chair, School of Food and Nutrition 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: School food environments, children’s food intake, nutrition and diabetes, and food
skills.
Assistant Professor
Tel: 519.432.8353 x20107
Email: jasna.twynstra@uwo.ca
Research Areas: Vascular Health
Area of Expertise: Vascular Health
Associate Professor
Tel: 519.432.8353 x.28228
Email: dbattra@uwo.ca
Research Areas: Childhood obesity and eating patterns and behaviours, school-based programming, general
healthy eating, caffeine-related topics
Area of Expertise: Childhood obesity and eating patterns and behaviours, school-based programming, general
healthy eating, caffeine-related topics
Associate Professor
Tel: 519.432.8353 x28284
Email: jseabro2@uwo.ca
Research Areas: Socioeconomic status and health inequality across the life course, Fetal origins
of adult disease, The influence of childhood family structure on status attainment
and health, Genotype-environment interactions and developmental trajectories over
time, Study design and advanced statistical methods
Area of Expertise: Social determinants of health, Relationship between maternal and child health
Professor
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, Functional Foods