Author: Mariam Eid
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PhD Candidate Amy Nichols Published in Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
Amy Nichols, a doctoral candidate in our lab, and Dr. Widen recently published a paper in the Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease in the article titled, “Prepregnancy obesity is associated with lower psychomotor development scores in boys at age 3 in a low-income, minority birth cohort.” The article explores associations between maternal…
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Jessica Presents at the Longhorn Research Poster Session
Pictured: Dr. Beth Widen (left), Jessica Dziuba (right) Jessica Dziuba, a Health Science Scholar and Honors Nutrition Major in the Widen Lab, presented her Honor’s thesis research titled, “The Benefit of Breastfeeding: Differences Between High and Low socioeconomic Status Mothers,” at the Longhorn Research Poster Session on April 17th, 2019. Jessica’s research examined the relationship between breastfeeding…
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From PhD student to PhD Candidate: Congratulations, Amy!
Pictured: Elizabeth Widen, PhD, RD (left) and Amy Nichols, MS, RD (right) Pictured: Monique Hedderson, PhD (left) and Amy Nichols, MS, RD (right) Amy Nichols, MS, RD is a third year PhD Candidate and Assistant Instructor at the University of Texas at Austin. Amy has been working with the Widen lab for 2 years. She successfully…
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Guest Visitor: Monique M. Hedderson, PhD
We were thrilled to welcome Dr. Monique Hedderson to our lab. Dr. Hedderson is a research scientist from Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Division of Research, and collaborator of the Widen Lab. She joined us in December to present her current research regarding obesity and weight gain during pregnancy and how these findings can lead to prevention strategies for…
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Epidemiology Congress of the Americas
We were thrilled to present the first set of longitudinal results from our cohort in Uganda at the Epidemiology Congress of the Americas 2016. Our poster focused on the the role of maternal HIV and food insecurity in body composition changes during lactation in Ugandan women. Dr. Widen also co-chaired the Speed Networking event along…
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BPA associated with child body fat in girls
Our paper led by Dr. Lori Hoepner on BPA exposure and childhood body fat was published in Environmental Health Perspectives in May 2016. The paper was featured in several news outlets, including Mother Jones, the New York Post, and was featured by the CUMC Mailman School of Public Health. Briefly, we found maternal BPA measured in the third trimester was associated with…
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Thrasher Research Fund Award
Our proposal “Pathways between maternal nutrition, toxicant exposure, home environment and child neurodevelopment” was awarded a Thrasher Research Fund Early Career Award by the Thrasher Research Fund. This will be the first study to evaluate the pathways between maternal nutrition, environmental toxicants and child neurodevelopment. We will examine these pathways with in our prospective birth cohort (n=727)…
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American Society for Nutrition Meeting
We are very excited to be presenting at ASN meeting in San Diego. Dr. Widen will be co-charing a session on “Global Nutrition: Nutritional Deficiency Prevalence and Consequences” on Saturday April 2nd. During this session, Dr. Widen will be giving a talk on pregnancy weight gain and body composition in HIV infected and HIV-uninfected Kenyan women. We…
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Long term effects of pregnancy weight gain on maternal health
Our paper in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that high pregnancy weight gain had long term effects on maternal body size and fatness at 7 years postpartum. This is the first study of showing these effects in a low-income, urban and minority population. This research was featured on YahooNews, MedicalResearch.com and other parenting websites!
