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Dr. Dhillon, Sigry Ortiz Flores, and colleagues reviewed how racial and ethnic minority groups are represented in clinical nutrition interventions. The review was named an Editor’s Choice in the ASN Publications Newsletter. Read the paper.

Invited talks by Dr. Dhillon:

• Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba Research Rounds, Winnipeg: Dietary Influences on Host-Microbiome Interactions and Related Cardiometabolic Health (2021)
• The Almond Conference, Almond Board of California, Sacramento: Effects of Almonds on Glucoregulatory Profiles in Young Adults (2021)
• Cardiovascular Day Conference, University of Missouri: The Role of Precision Nutrition in Addressing Cardiometabolic Disorders (2021)
• University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India: Research Methods in Nutrition (2020)

Kaylin presented Effects of a Personalized Dietary Intervention on Diet Quality and Cardiometabolic Factors in Minority Young Adults at the MU Summer Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievements Forum.

For a project on the effects of resistance training on cardiometabolic outcomes.

Selected as a 2020–2021 Health Disparities Research Institute (HDRI) Scholar by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, NIH. The HDRI supports the research career development of early-career scientists focused on minority health and health disparities research.

For a project on associations of the food environment with clinical outcomes.