2023 Speakers

Dr. Nikhil Parekh, MD, MPH

Nikhil Parekh MD MPH is the Medical Director of Employee Health at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. He is a National Whole Health Education Champion and a Network (VISN 10) Whole Health Education Champion, and provides national education to VA staff at sites across the country and works on curriculum development and reform. Parekh is a graduate of the Wayne State University School of Medicine, the University of Michigan School of Public Health, the Wayne State University Department of Family Medicine, and the University of Arizona Fellowship in Integrative Medicine Program. He has professional interests in providing medical care for the underserved, teaching and mentorship, innovations in medical education, undergraduate and graduate medical curricular reform, advocating for those with different abilities (or disabilities), preventing and reducing physician burnout, and local and global public health efforts. Outside of work, he enjoys time spent with family and friends and enjoys learning about different cultures, traveling, fitness, nutrition, art, nature, music, and films.

Dr. Erica Jansen, Ph.D, MPH

Dr. Jansen is a nutritional epidemiologist who focuses on diet and sleep in relation to health along the lifespan, but particularly during adolescence. She has several lines of research, including the examination of: 1) how early nutritional environments affect childhood obesity and timing of puberty; 2) how various aspects of sleep- including duration, timing, and quality- affect development of cardiometabolic risk; 3) the bidirectional associations between sleep and diet; 4) role of toxicants in sleep and cardiometabolic outcomes; and 5) epigenetic markers or mediators that underlie relationships between sleep and cardiometabolic health. Dr. Jansen conducts her research mostly within the ELEMENT cohort, a Mexican birth cohort that has been followed for over 25 years.

Dr. Dwaine Campbell, Ph.D

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Mrs. Allison Mankowski, MPH, RD, CSSD

Allison Mankowski is a registered dietitian and owner of a nutrition counseling practice specializing in eating disorder recovery and intuitive eating. She is passionate about the intersection of nutrition and mental health and aims to help others improve their relationship with food and eat in a way that fuels their bodies and minds. Allison is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology and School of Public Health.

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