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Misti Leyva, MS, RD/LD
Bionutrition Core Director
Tawny Pantoja-Tucker, BS
Dietary Technician
The
GCRC Bionutrition core offers specialized nutrition services
to all GCRC-approved protocols. It is supported by specialized
instrumentation and a state-of-the-art metabolic kitchen.
The research kitchen is designed to provide clinical research
subjects with meals scheduled and prepared in accordance
with specific protocols. The kitchen offers a meal service
unique to the research setting that includes regular, special,
controlled-nutrient and weighed diets.
In addition to the metabolic kitchen, the Bionutrition core
offers a variety of clinical nutrition services. Clinical
services include nutrition assessment and analysis, body
composition determination and assistance to the investigator
with the design of the nutrition component in protocols.
The services available through our unit include but are not
limited to the following:
Metabolic Kitchen
- Regular meals
- Nutrient-controlled diets
- Weighed diets (Mettler electronic balances)
- Therapeutic diets (ADA, renal, etc)
- Snacks for fasting subjects
- Take-home meals
Clinical Nutrition Services
- Nutrition assessments
- Subject diet instruction
- Nutrient intake assessment (24 hour recall, food frequency,
diet history, subject food diaries.)
- Computer analysis of intake (Nutritionist Pro, FirstDataBank)
- Design of special diets
- Design of nutrition component protocols
- Anthropometric measurements (skinfold measures, hip-waist
ratios.)
- Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA)
- Determination of body composition via DEXA (Hologic
QDR4500)
- Indirect calorimetry (MedGraphics)
- Education of dietetic interns coordinated with OUHSC
Bionutrition Research—Training Site for Nutrition Students
The GCRC is also a hands-on research & training site for dietetic interns, graduate nutrition students and undergraduate nutrition students in coordinated programs. The GCRC works extensively with the OU Health Scineces Center, University of Central Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University and with Langston University to provide a detailed research experience to students and interns. Dietetic Interns are able to spend one to two weeks at the GCRC where they recieve valuable experience on the functions of the GCRC, how to plan research diets, perform nutritional assessments and review the nutritional components of research protocols. In addition, graduate students may be able to use the GCRC to complete their clinical nutrition research projects.
You are invited to visit our research kitchen and talk with
a registered dietitian to discuss your research needs and
the services we provide. For more information call:
Contact Misti
Leyva at (405) 271-4272 x 42731
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