Stephanie K. Nishi

Dr. Stephanie K. Nishi

Universitat Rovira i Virgili
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Biography

Stephanie Nishi is a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) postdoctoral researcher with the Unitat de Nutrició Humana, Departament de Bioquímica i Biotecnologia at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de la Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn), and Insitut d´Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili (IISPV), in Spain. She earned her PhD from the Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, and previously earned a combined MSc and RD in Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of Toronto and St. Michael´s Hospital. Her research has focused on chronic disease prevention from a plant-based nutritional perspective using systematic reviews and meta-analyses and randomized controlled trial methodology. Her ongoing research assesses cognitive health within the framework of the multicentre PREDIMED-Plus study. Concurrently, she has worked as a dietitian and clinical trials coordinator on international research trials and as an educator. Dr. Nishi works to support evidence-based practice and knowledge dissemination with the goal of informing dietetic practice, public health policy, and nutrition guidelines through her research, and as an educator/dietetic preceptor, and as a knowledge translator as a podcast host for a not-for-profit medical science-based organization.

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