Faculty
The faculty members in the Department of Clinical Nutrition are dedicated to bringing students a superb educational experience. You'll learn with nationally recognized professionals who are directly involved in patient care at UT Southwestern hospitals and clinics and active in collaborative research with other campus departments.
Our faculty members include:
Professor and Chair, Master of Clinical Nutrition
- Graduate School: M.D., UT Southwestern Medical School, 1998
- Interests: Metabolism; non-alcoholic fatty liver disease; obesity; insulin resistance/diabetes; dietary weight loss; fasting; stable isotope tracers; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Lona Sandon, Ph.D., R.D.N., LD
Associate Professor and Program Director, Master of Clinical Nutrition-Coordinated Program
- Graduate School: Ph.D., R.D.N., Texas Woman's University, 2016
- Interests: Wellness/sports nutrition, fitness, instructional technology
Parul Sharma, Ph.D., R.D.N, LD, CNSC
Assistant Professor and Program Director, Master of Science in Nutritional Health
- Graduate School: Ph.D. MLS University, 2013
- Interests: Malnutrition, critical care nutrition support, nutrition for chronic disease prevention, culinary medicine
Professor
- Dr. Scott M. Grundy Distinguished Professorship in Human Nutrition
- Graduate School: Ph.D., Louisiana State University Medical Center, 1979
- Interests: Biochemistry of atherosclerosis, clinical nutrition, primary and secondary hyperlipidemia
Breanna Campbell, M.S., R.D.N., CSO, LD
Assistant Professor
- Graduate School: M.S., R.D.N., Texas Woman's University, 2017
- Interests: Addressing Social Determinates of Health in the role of Quality Nutrition, Cancer survivorship and risk reduction, Malnutrition, Food is Medicine intervention for the improvement of chronic disease
Tad Campbell, M.C.N., R.D.N., LD
Adjunct Assistant Professor
- Graduate School: M.C.N., R.D.N., UT Southwestern School of Health Professions, 2012
- Interests: Obesity and weight management, neurology nutrition, diabetes, nutrition education
Michaela "Micki" Carrington, M.S., R.D.N., LD
Assistant Professor
- Graduate School: M.S., R.D.N., University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Interests: Weight management and obesity treatment, quality improvement in dietetics practice
Kathleen Eustace, M.P.H, R.D.N, LD, CNSC
Assistant Professor
- Graduate School: M.P.H, R.D.N., University of Texas Health Science Center Houston, 2010
- Interests: Gastrointestinal nutrition, pediatrics, nutrition support
Assistant Professor
- Graduate School: Ph.D., University of Missouri, 2014
- Interests: Metabolism, liver disease, pathophysiology of obesity, exercise physiology, stable isotope tracers
L. Anne Gilmore, Ph.D., R.D.N.
Assistant Professor
- Graduate School: Ph.D., R.D.N., Texas A&M University, 2010 and MSCR Tulane University, 2018
- Interests: Metabolism; obesity; dietary and pharmacological interventions to influence whole body and cancer metabolism; improving clinical treatment and patient outcomes
Maral Misserian, Ph.D., MCN, R.D.N., LD
Assistant Professor
- Graduate School: Ph.D., ACR, UT Southwestern School of Health Professions; M.C.N., R.D.N., UT Southwestern School of Health Professions, 2020
- Interests: Weight management, behavior change, bariatric surgery
Hoda Yeganehjoo, Ph.D., R.D.N.
Assistant Professor
- Graduate School: Ph.D., R.D.N., Texas Woman's University, 2015
- Interests: Cholesterol metabolism and regulation in health and disease; dietary and pharmacological interventions to influence abnormal cholesterol metabolism associated with various diseases; cognitive dysfunction and Alzheimer's disease
Patricia Morrison, M.C.N., R.D.N.
Clinical Instructor
- Graduate School: M.C.N., R.D.N., UT Southwestern School of Health Professions, 2016
- Interests: Nutrition education, preventive nutrition, hyperlipidemia, obesity
