Professor of Nutrition
Academic Department: Biomedical Sciences
School/College: Osteopathic Medicine
Email: kearly@pnwu.edu
Fields:
- Nutrition – acute care and outpatient medical nutrition therapy
- Obesity, adult and pediatric
- Diabetes, type 1 and type 2, adult and pediatric
Areas of Expertise:
- Diabetes education
- Chronic disease self-management – esp. obesity and/or diabetes
- Health disparities in rural populations
- Quality of life
Methodological Expertise:
- Survey research
- Qualitative data collection and analysis
Current Projects:
- Diabetes self-management in Mexican Americans
- Rural diabetes disparities in the Type 1 Diabetes T1D Exchange network
- Inflammation processes post-OMT
- PRAMS outcomes among rural women
Publications: