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Samantha Pritchard, PhD, RD, LDN

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Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Nutrition

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Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Nutrition

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Chicago, IL 60612
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PhD, Nutritional Sciences, Iowa State University

BS, Dietetics, Iowa State University
Samantha Pritchard, PhD, RD, LDN, is a Chicago-area native and joined Rush University in 2019. In the Department of Clinical Nutrition, she teaches courses in macro- and micronutrient metabolism, and has a weekly appointment in the Rush Cancer Center, providing nutrition education to patients in the Chest Tumor Clinic. Pritchard earned a bachelor’s degree in Dietetics from Iowa State University (ISU), and then spent three years as a Clinical Oncology Dietitian in suburban Chicago. She returned to ISU to pursue a PhD in Nutritional Sciences where her research focused on dietary intervention strategies to maintain vitamin D homeostasis in animal models of diabetes and inflammatory bowel disease. As a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Minnesota Medical School, she was appointed to the National Institutes of Health Institutional Training Grant (T32) in Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism, where her studies explored the developmental origins of pancreatic beta cell dysfunction.
- Iowa State University (ISU) Graduate College Research Excellence Award
- Dept of Food Science and Human Nutrition, ISU, D.R. Griffith Research Excellence Award
- American Society for Nutrition’s Emerging Leaders in Nutrition Science Poster Prize Competition Winner
Link to PubMed bibliography:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1paCufBPgs7kG/bibliography/public/

Selected Publications:

Bries AE, Webb JL, Vogel B, Carrillo C, Keating AF, Pritchard SK, Roslan G, Miller JW, Schalinske KL. Letrozole-Induced Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Attenuates Cystathionine-β Synthase mRNA and Protein Abundance in the Ovaries of Female Sprague Dawley Rats. J Nutr. 2021 Mar 23;. doi: 10.1093/jn/nxab038. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 33758914.

Saande CJ, Bries AE, Pritchard SK, Nass CA, Reed CH, Rowling MJ, Schalinske KL. Whole Egg Consumption Decreases Cumulative Weight Gain in Diet-Induced Obese Rats. J Nutr. 2020 Jul 1;150(7):1818-1823. doi: 10.1093/jn/nxaa114. PubMed PMID: 32359139.

Baumann D, Wong A, Akhaphong B, Jo S, Pritchard S, Mohan R, Chung G, Zhang Y, Alejandro EU. Role of nutrient-driven O-GlcNAc-post-translational modification in pancreatic exocrine and endocrine islet development. Development. 2020 Apr 12;147(7). doi: 10.1242/dev.186643. PubMed PMID: 32165492; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7174839.

Saande, C.J., Pritchard, S.K., Worrall, D.M., Snavely, S.E., Nass, C.A., Neuman, J.C., Luchtel, R.A., Dobiszewski, S., Miller, J.W., Vailati-Riboni, M., Loor., J.J., Schalinske K.L. Dietary egg protein prevents hyperhomocysteinemia via upregulation of hepatic betaine-homocysteine S-methyltransferase activity in folate restricted rats. J. Nutr., 2019, 149(8):1369-1376.

Saande CJ, Jones SK, Rowling MJ, Schalinske KL. Whole Egg Consumption Exerts a Nephroprotective Effect in an Acute Rodent Model of Type 1 Diabetes. J Agric Food Chem. 2018 Jan 31;66(4):866-870. doi: 10.1021/acs.jafc.7b04774. Epub 2018 Jan 18. PubMed PMID: 29345464.

Saande CJ, Jones SK, Hahn KE, Reed CH, Rowling MJ, Schalinske KL. Dietary Whole Egg Consumption Attenuates Body Weight Gain and Is More Effective than Supplemental Cholecalciferol in Maintaining Vitamin D Balance in Type 2 Diabetic Rats. J Nutr. 2017 Sep;147(9):1715-1721. doi: 10.3945/jn.117.254193. Epub 2017 Aug 9. PubMed PMID: 28794211.

Jones SK, Koh GY, Rowling MJ, Schalinske KL. Whole Egg Consumption Prevents Diminished Serum 25-Hydroxycholecalciferol Concentrations in Type 2 Diabetic Rats. J Agric Food Chem. 2016 Jan 13;64(1):120-4. doi: 10.1021/acs.jafc.5b04347. Epub 2015 Dec 31. PubMed PMID: 26673201
“Dietary intervention strategies to support methyl group metabolism in polycystic ovary syndrome.” Schalinske, KL (PI, Iowa State University). Pritchard, SK (lead author in preparation of the grant) Awarded January 2019, NICHD

“Dietary intervention strategies to manage inflammatory bowel disease: Impact of whole egg consumption and maintenance of micronutrient balance.” Pritchard, SK (Fellow) and Schalinske, KL (Sponsor). Awarded July 2014, Egg Nutrition Center.

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