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Member of Academic Senate Policy Committee, AAUP-AFT Local 6075: Faculty Grievance Coordinator
Science Hall, Room 3002
I have been working on diet and lipoprotein metabolism for almost thirty years. After obtaining my BSc and MSc from Newcastle University in the U.K. and Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario in Canada, I did post-doctoral research at Brandeis University in the USA with Prof KC Hayes and specialized in the kinetics of in vivo lipoprotein metabolism in non-human primates. I joined Wayne State in 1996.
Over the years some 36 graduate students (Ph.D., M.S. and M.A.), had numerous undergraduate students have passed through the lab. Additionally, I have taught over eighty classes (11 different courses). The last few years, our laboratory has carried out studies in dialysis patients to look at the effects of various supplements (omega 3 fatty acids, tocotrienols) on markers of inflammation, oxidative stress and blood lipids. I was the lead investigator on a multi-centered clinical trial involving various dialysis units in Michigan (Henry Ford, Great Lakes Dialysis, Davita) as well as Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), evaluating the effects of tocotrienol supplementation on lipid, inflammatory and oxidative stress markers. We have also been involved in severals collaborative studies looking at various aspects of diet on protein energy wasting (PEW) as well as renal nutrition education in dialysis patients. This work, in addition to UKM and UPM, involved collaborative centers in the Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia.
Our laboratory is not currently seeking any new students.