Lecture to Focus on Cell Hydration Epidemiology in Children

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Jodi Stookey

Jodi Stookey, a nutritional epidemiologist with Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute in San Francisco, will give a lecture at noon Friday, April 3 on the University of Arkansas campus.

Stookey's research focuses on the chronic effects of water intake and hydration status, and her lecture will describe her work with children in this area.

The lecture is free and open to the public. It is part of the Hydration Lecture Series sponsored by the College of Education and Health Professions and will take place in Room 103 of the Health, Physical Education and Recreation Building.

RSVP is required by emailing to jxa014@uark.edu. To attend a live webcast of the lecture, visit bit.ly/Stookey. The lecture recording will be available afterward at bit.ly/HydrationLectures.

Stookey completed a master's degree in human nutrition at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, and a doctorate in nutrition epidemiology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She also completed two postdoctoral fellowships at the Duke University Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development and the Stanford Prevention Research Center.

Her studies have described water intake and the prevalence of hyperosmotic stress on cells (cell dehydration) in children, adults, and older adults, and effects of water and hydration status on chronic outcomes, including breast cancer, incident diabetes, frailty and mortality, obesity, and weight change.

Her work aims to determine whether well-established responses to chronic osmotic stress at the cell level translate into chronic disease risk at the population level. She has undertaken clinical studies to develop biomarkers of chronic hydration status, crossover experiments to test for effects of water intake and hydration on metabolic and physiologic intermediates, cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of population-representative datasets, and randomized clinical trials. Her current projects involve systematic literature review and meta-analysis, as well as public health program evaluation.