Teresa T. Fung, S.D., R.D.
Associate Professor of Nutrition
B.S. and M.S. Cornell University
S.D. Harvard Univ. School of Public Health
teresa.fung@simmons.edu
website: web.simmons.edu/~fung
Dr. Fung's research interests are in the fields of nutritional epidemiology, especially the link between dietary patterns and chronic disease development. Dr. Fung completed her dietetic internship at the Yale-New Haven Hospital where she worked as a clinical nutrition specialist in many specialties from pediatrics to geriatrics. Her current research projects include assessing the relationship between dietary patterns and the risk of developing diabetes, cancer and heart disease. Recently, she published a paper in the Arhives of Internal Medicine (2008) that showed the DASH diet(Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) which involves high intakes of plant foods and low sodium reduced the risk of coronary heart disease and stroke in women.