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Debra Krummel, PhD, RDN, FAND is the Ruth E. Rosevear Chair, a Millennium Scholar, and an Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati. She has held positions as a clinical dietitian, outpatient manager, consulting dietitian, and research scientist prior to her academic appointments. Early in her career, she was the Recognized Young Dietitian of the Year for the state of Pennsylvania. Her BS degree in nutrition was completed in three years (the Ohio State University and Kent State University). She completed an American Dietetic Association accredited internship at Cincinnati General Hospital. After the internship, she completed the Master of Science degree in Nutrition at Case Western Reserve University and a PhD in Nutrition from the Pennsylvania State University. For her dissertation, she studied the relationships among endogenous sex hormones, physical activity, diet, and blood lipids in young women and received the 10th annual Huddleson Award from the American Dietetic Association for the publication resulting from this research. After receiving her doctorate, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for Cardiovascular Research, Department of Internal Medicine, at Sinai Hospital in Detroit Michigan. At West Virginia University School of Medicine, she was a core faculty member of the Prevention Research Center and part of the department of Community Medicine. At the University of Cincinnati, she is a faculty member in the Department of Nutritional Sciences in the College of Allied Health. - See more at: http://research.uc.edu/expertprofile.aspx?epersonID=krummeda#sthash.vecvSZEq.dpuf