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Assistant Professor
Texas Tech University
Kristina Petersen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at Texas Tech University. She is Director of the Diet and Cardiometabolic Health Lab, which studies dietary interventions to delay and prevent the onset of cardiometabolic diseases. The lab conducts human clinical trials to examine the effect of individual foods, bioactives, and dietary patterns on risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases. The lab also focuses on strategies to improve diet quality.