Dr. Arpita Basu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences at the School of Integrated Health Sciences at UNLV. She earned her master’s degree in food and nutrition from the University of Calcutta, India, her master’s degree in public health with a focus on epidemiology from the University of South Florida, and her Ph.D. degree in nutrition from Texas Woman’s University. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship in clinical nutrition at the University of California Davis Medical Center. She has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Nutrition since 2012 and has received numerous research awards from the American Society for Nutrition and the American College of Nutrition for her research on dietary bioactive compounds in human health. She joined the Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences department in the fall of 2017 and teaches complementary and integrative medical nutrition therapy, nutrition therapy and pathophysiology of chronic diseases, and clinical and public health nutrition courses within the undergraduate and graduate programs. Her research focuses on understanding the health effects of dietary bioactive compounds, such as those found in tea, berries, and cocoa, in modulating disease biomarkers in type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases.