Barbara C. Olendzki, R.D., M.P.H., L.D.N., is an Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Nutrition Program Director of the Center for Integrative Nutrition, and the Director of
Cardiovascular Nutrition Outpatient Counseling at the University of Massachusetts Medical
School. Interests include clinical trials with dietary interventions, teaching nutrition
for graduate nurses and medical students, and seeing outpatients for nutrition
counseling. Barbara specializes in cardiac concerns, gastrointestinal problems, diabetes,
obesity, and inflammatory diseases. The Center for Integrative Nutrition promotes
nutritional change by teaching patients to consume healthy and delicious food. The senses
of taste, smell, and texture are methods utilized in facilitating dietary change within
the counseling, cooking and nutrition programs for the public, and through Barbara’s
various research programs.
A healthy dietary lifestyle combines the intellectual knowledge of protective or
detrimental foods with the satisfaction incurred when taste and fulfillment goals are
also met. Individual consults customize dietary lifestyles to fit patient needs.
Specifically, and integral to Barbara’s practice, research interests also include: a)
developing and implementing nutritional determinants of health as they can be applied to
chronic disease, obesity prevention and treatment; and b) engagement in good quality
research that leads to dissemination of nutrition messages targeting the health of the
individuals and family.
Articles
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Statin Use and Risk of Diabetes Mellitus in Postmenopausal Women in the Women's Health Initiative (with Annie L. Culver, Ira S. Ockene, Raji Balasubramanian, Deidre M. Sepavich, Jean Wactawski-Wende, JoAnn E. Manson, Yongxia Qiao, Simin Liu, Philip A. Merriam, Catherine Rahilly-Tierny, Fridtjof Thomas, Jeffrey S. Berger, Judith K. Ockene, J. David Curb, and Yunsheng Ma), Archives of Internal Medicine (2012)
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Elevated Depressive Symptoms, Antidepressant Use, and Diabetes in a Large Multiethnic National Sample of Postmenopausal Women (with Yunsheng Ma, Raji Balasubramanian, Sherry L. Pagoto, Kristin L. Schneider, Annie L. Culver, Lesley Tinker, Simin Liu, Monika M. Safford, Deidre M. Sepavich, Milagros C. Rosal, Judith K. Ockene, Mercedes Carnethon, Martha Zorn, and James R. Hebert), Diabetes Care (2011)
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Activating peripheral arterial disease patients to reduce cholesterol: a randomized trial (with Mary McGrae McDermott, George W. Reed, Philip Greenland, Kathleen M. Mazor, Sherry L. Pagoto, Judith K. Ockene, Rex Graff, Philip A. Merriam, Katherine Leung, Larry Manheim, Melina R. Kibbe, William H. Pearce, and Ira S. Ockene), The American journal of medicine (2011)
Presentations and Posters
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Low potassium diet (with George L. Bakris), Preventive and Behavioral Medicine Publications and Presentations (2009)
