People

Diane joined the Nutrition Studies Group in October of 2013. Prior to working at Stanford University, she received her Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics at San Jose State University in 2011. Since 2013, she has served on several studies as a diet assessor and research associate for the group until 2019 when she stepped into the role of clinical research coordinator for the RAMP Study. In addition to nutrition, Diane enjoys cooking, the outdoors, traveling, and spending time with her family.

Lindsay is a Registered Dietitian who has been working at Stanford since 2016 as a diet assessor on numerous studies. She received a masters degree in Public Health Nutrition from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. In her free time she enjoys reading, hiking, and traveling with her family.

As a registered dietitian, Elizabeth has spent the last decade in various nutrition-related roles ranging from patient counseling to employee well-being programming to teaching. She appreciates the nourishment and pleasure that food provides. But she is also drawn to the many disciplines that share intersections with food - culture, sustainability, politics, and socioeconomics just to name a few. She joined the Nutrition Studies Group in May 2022 as a health educator.

Dalia is a Registered Dietitian and a Certified Diabetes Educator. She has always been interested in both Nutrition research and its application in clinical practice and has worked in both environments. For 14 years she was a clinical dietitian at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation counseling people with diabetes, heart disease, gastrointestinal disorders and other conditions. She understands the power of diet in disease prevention and treatment and in her current role as a research dietitian she strives to elucidate the use of dietary measures to effectively promote optimal health. Some of the studies Dalia has worked on include the effects of a low carb or low fat diet on weight loss, relationship between dietary intake and adipocyte function, the effect of dietary fibers on the microbiome, and personalizing dietary recommendations for optimal blood sugar control.

Erika has been working within the School of Medicine for 8 years in the areas of population health, palliative care and nutrition education. She joins the team as a health educator for the FeFiFo Family and our Maternal-Infant Microbiome studies. Prior to Stanford, Erika earned her Masters in Public Health Nutrition from UC Berkeley, with a focus on equitable food systems and integrating food as medicine in health care. In her personal time, you can find her in the kitchen, exploring in the mountains or curled up with a book and her two black cats.

Amanda joined the Nutrition Studies Group as a research assistant in 2022. She is currently pursuing an MPH from the Keck School of Medicine at USC, with concentrations in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Prior to joining the team, Amanda spent several years as a culinary educator in the Stanford Teaching Kitchen, which educates the Stanford community on how to cook nutritious, sustainable meals. She enjoys cooking, hiking, escape rooms and spending time with her husband, three children and two dogs.

Matthew Landry is a postdoctoral research scholar in the Stanford Prevention Research Center. Matthew received his Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition and Food Sciences from Louisiana State University and his doctoral degree in Nutritional Sciences from The University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin). He also completed his dietetic internship at UT-Austin. His research is focused on examining overall dietary quality and composition of a healthful diet on obesity, metabolic syndrome, and risk factors for chronic diseases and the utilization of novel, dietary interventions as conduits to promote health at the population level.

Alyssa is a graduate student in the Community Health and Prevention Research program at Stanford. She also received a Bachelor of Science from Stanford studying Human Biology. Alyssa is working with the lab to conduct a pilot study that aims to gain a better understanding of student-athletes' beliefs and attitudes towards protein consumption. Outside of the lab, Alyssa is a member of the Stanford Women’s Basketball team.

Annie is a senior at Stanford majoring in Human Biology. She is working with the lab to study the impact of diet on blood glucose control through continuous glucose monitoring data in the Keto-Med study. Previously, she was an HB-REX summer intern where she helped develop curriculum for Farm and Food Camp. When not in the lab, Annie can be found cooking, gardening, or running.