BIONUTRITIONIST

The GCRC has a registered dietician on staff to coordinate all nutrition related activities for protocols. Carol Wolin-Riklin has over 15 years of experience in a variety of clinical settings including outpatient counseling and intensive care nutrition support. Her responsibilities include assisting investigators with designing nutrition methodology for their protocols, devising and calculating protocol specific diets, and creating and providing nutrition related educational materials.

In her position at the GCRC, Carol analyses food records, performs body composition measurements, provides individual or group nutrition counseling for patients and provides nutritional documentation in patient records. Additionally, she develops data collection tools and data bases for the nutritional aspects of research studies.