Freudenheim named fellow of American Society for Nutrition – UBNow: News and views for UB faculty and staff

Jo Freudenheim, SUNY Distinguished Professor within the Division of Epidemiology and Environmental Well being, College of Public Well being and Well being Professions, has been named a fellow of the American Society for Diet (ASN).

Fellowship standing, the very best honor bestowed by ASN, acknowledges people for “vital discoveries and distinguished careers within the area of vitamin.”

Freudenheim is amongst 16 people inducted into the 2023 class of fellows. They are going to be honored subsequent month on the ASN’s annual flagship assembly, NUTRITION 2023.

Members of this 12 months’s class be part of greater than 500 different ASN fellows who’ve been acknowledged because the program started in 1952.

An internationally famend skilled in most cancers epidemiology, Freudenheim has carried out seminal analysis to know components that affect danger for most cancers — significantly breast most cancers — together with the function of weight loss program, alcohol and the bodily atmosphere. Her analysis has been funded for greater than 25 years by the Nationwide Institutes of Well being and different federal funding businesses. She has authored greater than 275 peer-reviewed publications in nationwide and worldwide high-impact journals, the place they’ve helped form the sphere of persistent illness epidemiology.