Dietary Assessment Service

The Diet Quality and Healthy Aging Lab have established a dietary assessment service to include administration, collection, and analysis of 24-hour recalls, dietary food records, and diet screeners. The lab holds a license for the Nutrition Data System for Research (NDSR) developed by the Nutrition Coordinating Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (NDSR Software – Nutrition Coordinating Center (NCC). Currently, with her colleague Dr. Cheryl Gilhooly, we are collaborating with the American College of Lifestyle Medicine to validate several short dietary screeners against food record data. We are available to advise on methodology to collect dietary data, provide standardized, quality-controlled data collection, and offer high quality data management and delivery of dietary data. Please reach out to Dr. Nicola McKeown if you are interested in learning more about their dietary assessment capabilities.

Cheryl Gilhooly, PhD, MPH, RD, is a Nutrition Research professional with extensive experience in dietary assessment data collection and management and nutrition interventions in single and multi-site protocols. Dr. Gilhooly has contributed to projects investigating dietary patterns and eating behaviors, including meal patterns, timing, diet quality, and composition. In addition, Dr. Gilhooly has been a co-investigator on multiple dietary intervention trials, contributing to intervention design, implementation, and oversight of quality-controlled intervention delivery. Dr. Gilhooly is a part-time Lecturer at Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Boston University and an Adjunct Instructor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University.