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Nutrition
Education Overview
The Section of Nutrition provides education at all levels of training for health care providers, including required and elective courses for medical students at the School of Medicine; lectures through the core lecture series for the pre-clinical medical students and for the pediatric clerkship; pediatric residency program training; clinical and research fellowship training; and continuing education for practicing physicians.
Section faculty members also provide supervision for undergraduate- and graduate-level internship experiences. Past internships have included clinical research; research experiences involving body-weight regulation, exercise, fuel metabolism, trace minerals, child/familial feeding studies, pediatric obesity impacts on vascular health; and website and software development. The Children’s Eating Laboratory and The Pediatric Obesity and Chronic Disease Development Laboratory (Teresa Sharp, PhD) offer approved graduate and undergraduate research internships extended to students of Metropolitan State University, University of Colorado Denver, University of Northern Colorado, Vanderbilt University, and Colorado State University.
The University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine was a site of one the NIH-supported Nutrition Academic Awards (NAA), the purpose of which was to enhance nutrition training in medical practice, with a focus on the prevention of coronary heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and other chronic illnesses. Dr. Krebs was the principal investigator of the Colorado NAA. Please visit the Nutrition Academic Award Website for further information.
The Integrated Nutrition Education Program is a school-based prevention program that reaches limited-income minority students in targeted elementary schools. The purpose of the program is to improve children's eating behaviors, specifically to increase fruit and vegetable consumption through hands-on food and nutrition activities conducted in the classroom. Cathy Romaniello, MPH, RD, heads this community-based program.
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