Kathaleen Briggs Early, PhD

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: