BS, University of Delaware
MS, California State University Long Beach
PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Caitlin Martinez is a Registered Dietitian who holds a PhD in Nutrition from UNC Chapel Hill. She is interested in the intersection of nutrition education, practice, and research. As a Registered Dietitian, she has practiced in hospital, community, school, food service, and research settings. Her research focuses on lifestyle interventions for chronic disease management, ways to reduce variable response to lifestyle programs through greater participant involvement and intervention personalization, and opportunities to optimize the impact of novel technologies and human counseling in lifestyle interventions. She tries to weave her diverse experiences into her Nutrition courses to celebrate the importance of Nutrition in our everyday lives.