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Senior Scientist
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kristina Penniston, PhD, RDN, is a Distinguished Senior Scientist in the Department of Urology at UW-Madison and also a registered dietitian nutritionist at the UW Health University Hospital and Clinics. Dr. Penniston provides medical nutrition therapy to patients with kidney stones and other urologic conditions. She is the nutrition provider in the multidisciplinary stone prevention clinic. In addition to clinical quality improvement projects and research in the clinical setting, Dr. Penniston helped to implement shared medical appointments as a new model of care for patients in the stone prevention clinic. In addition to clinical care and research, Dr. Penniston developed an adult porcine model for studying calcium oxalate stone formation and led the development of the Wisconsin Stone Quality of Life (WISQOL) questionnaire, a disease-specific instrument for assessing health-related quality of life in patients with stones. She led a multi-center consortium to study the effects of kidney stones on patients' health-related quality of life using the WISQOL. Dr. Penniston is one of the leaders of the endourology research team at UW-Madison and has provided research opportunities to endourology fellows for >15 years. Dr. Penniston was elected into the Research on Calculus Kinetics Society in 2008 and served as Secretary-Treasurer (2018-2023); she was recently elected President. She was an AUA Research Scholar from 2008-2010 and has moderated the session on Medical and Nutritional Management of Stones at AUA meetings for several years. Along with 2 former UW-Madison endourology fellows, she co-directed an AUA meeting course for nearly 10 years on the nutritional prevention of stones. Dr. Penniston is Co-Principal Investigator of an NIDDK-funded summer program for undergraduate urology research and is the Principal Investigator of the coordinating center for the community of NIDDK-funded genitourinary and urology investigators known as CAIRIBU (Collaborating for the Advancement of Interdisciplinary Research in Benign Urology).
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