Office
(631) 444-2467
Email
lorraine.danowski.1@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Stony Brook University
HSC, Level 3, Rm 086
Stony Brook, NY 11794-8036
Lorraine Danowski, PhD, RD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Family, Population & Preventive Medicine
Director, Dietic Internship
Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
Research Program
Lipid Signaling and Metabolism in Cancer
Department
Family, Population & Preventive Medicine
Research Interest
As part of the research team, I have helped to design and implement a recently completed dietary intervention in healthy humans to establish the feasibility of providing custom diets to reduce protein intake. Analysis of subject-reported nutrient intake, along with analysis of participant biological samples, revealed high adherence and substantial biological changes following a reduced protein diet. The analysis of a second feeding trial, designed to explore the impact of plant vs. animal sources of protein on the gut metabolome and intestinal permeability is on-going. Both cross over design feeding trials used a novel approach to capture food consumption in a free-living population as well as allowed for the ability to report any deviations from the study provided foods. My current research project, along with the team, is to apply a similar methodology to patients with breast cancer. A pilot study is planned, to assess a diet change that reduces the amount of protein consumed before and day of neoadjuvant chemotherapy and four days before surgery on the treatment outcomes for patients with breast cancer.
Education
BS, Clinical Dietetics, State University of New York at Oneonta, Oneonta, NY
MS, Medical Biology/ Nutritional Science, CW Post/Long Island University, Greenvale, NY
PhD, Health & Rehabilitation Science, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Publications
A complete list of publications can be found here.