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Rose Ann Mathai began teaching at Dominican University in the Fall 2012. She received B.S. from Miami University in Health and Human Studies with a concentration on Nutrition and Dietetics. Following her degree, she completed a Dietetic Internship from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. Dr Mathai worked as a pediatric clinical dietitian at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, PA. She then transitioned to graduate school at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Division of Nutritional Sciences where she earned a M.S. and PhD in Nutrition focused on pediatric nutrition. While working on her graduate degree, Dr Mathai worked as a student intern for Abbott Nutrition in the Nutrition Regulatory Affairs Division and part time adjunct instructor at Parkland College in Champaign, IL. Her current research focuses on the development of interprofessional education (IPE) among Nutrition, Nursing, Social work and Physician Assistant Studies students. Her research examines the effect of an IPE simulation on changing student attitudes in the areas of teamwork, roles and responsibilities, patient centeredness, interprofessional biases, diversity and ethics, and community centeredness.

Education
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BS, Miami University
Research Interests

Interprofessional Education

Selected Publications

Kim, J., & Mathai, R. (2015). Comparison of Feeding Practices in Infants in the WIC Supplemental Nutrition Program Who Were Enrolled in Child Care as Opposed to Those with Parent Care Only. Breastfeeding medicine: the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, 10(7), 371–376. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1089/bfm.2014.0179

Shim, J., Kim, J., Mathai, R., & STRONG Kids Research Team (2011). Associations of infant feeding practices and picky eating behaviors of preschool children. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 111(9), 1363–1368. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jada.2011.06.410

Cephas, K., Kim, J., Mathai, R., Barry, K., Dowd, S., Meline, B., & Swanson, K. (2011). Comparative analysis of salivary bacterial microbiome diversity in edentulous infants and their mothers or primary care givers using pyrosequencing. PloS One, 6(8), e23503. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0023503

Chapkin, R., Zhao, C., Ivanov, I., Davidson, L., Goldsby, J., Lupton, J., Mathai, R., Monaco, M., Rai, D., Russell, W., Donovan, S., & Dougherty, E. (2010). Noninvasive stool-based detection of infant gastrointestinal development using gene expression profiles from exfoliated epithelial cells. American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology, 298(5), G582–G589. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpgi.00004.2010

Donovan, S., Andres, A., Mathai, R., Kuhlenschmidt, T., & Kuhlenschmidt, M. (2009). Soy formula and isoflavones and the developing intestine. Nutrition reviews, 67 Suppl_2, S192–S200. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-4887.2009.00240.x

 

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