Adriana Coletta is an assistant professor in the Cancer Control and Population Sciences program at Huntsman Cancer Institute and in the Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Recreation in the College of Health at the University of Utah. She is affiliated with the Ulrich group. She is a registered dietitian and exercise physiologist, and her research program consists of implementing principles from exercise science and sports nutrition across the cancer continuum to improve body composition and related biomarkers linked with cancer risk and progression. Dr. Coletta joined the team at HCI and the University of Utah after completing her postdoctoral fellowship in behavioral science and cancer prevention at MD Anderson Cancer Center. She is a member of the NCI’s Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer (TREC) Consortium and was a TREC fellow in the 2018 cohort. Dr. Coletta earned her BS in nutrition from the Pennsylvania State University and MS in nutrition (with minor in exercise science) and completed her dietetic internship at the University of Tennessee. She then worked as a pediatric dietitian at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center prior to going back to school full time to earn her PhD in kinesiology at Texas A&M University.
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