November 1, 2024
Lisa Jansen, Ph.D. Receives 2024 Excellence in Scholarship Award
Lisa Jansen, Ph.D., assistant professor in the college’s Department of Dietetics and Nutrition, is the recipient of the 2024 Excellence in Scholarship Award, which recognizes junior faculty at the rank of assistant professor who have demonstrated great potential in scholarship by virtue of the exceptional quality of their contributions.
Shortly after joining UAMS in 2022, Jansen received a pilot grant of $75,000 from the National Institutes of Health to fund her research on Glycemic patterns during gestation: CGM as a proxy measure of the intrauterine environment. In 2023, Jansen became the associate director of the Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. Jansen is now continuing her research with continuous glucose monitoring during gestation through another NIH-funded grant, this one for $392,379.
She mentors Master of Science in Dietetics Internship students in doing their capstone projects and Master of Science in Clinical Nutrition students on their thesis and non-thesis research projects. Jansen has thus far directly mentored nine students within these programs as their major advisor. Additionally, Jansen shares a great deal of her time assisting other faculty in the department with scholarly activity while advising her own students.
From left to right: Wei Li, Ph.D.; Sheena Joyner; Lisa Jansen, Ph.D.; Reza Hakkak, Ph.D.; Courtney Fose, M.S., RD, LD, CNSC, FAND; Lesley Jones, M.S., RD
