Associate Professor of Nutritional Sciences
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pennsylvania, United States
Alison Gernand is an associate professor of nutritional sciences at the Pennsylvania State University. She is a registered dietitian with a Master of Public Health from the University of Texas School of Public Health and a PhD in human nutrition and international health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health. She has a broad background in maternal and child nutrition, with specific training and expertise that spans public health/epidemiology, micronutrients, pregnancy, plasma volume, and the placenta. Her research is primarily focused on the role of maternal micronutrient status in placental development, fetal growth, and adverse pregnancy outcomes. She has worked with field trials of prenatal micronutrient supplementation in low-income countries and conducts epidemiologic research examining fetal and placental growth, placental pathologies, and adverse pregnancy outcomes in large pregnancy cohorts. Her work in low-resource settings has led to an interest in developing simple tools that allow the study of the placenta in more pregnancy research. She is currently working several other collaborators to develop software that uses digital pictures of the placenta to measure disc and cord parameters and detect lesions (PlacentaVision). She is also working on a simple method to measure plasma volume expansion in pregnancy.
Sunday, June 1, 2025
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET
Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Sunday, June 1, 2025
2:04 PM – 2:08 PM ET
Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.