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Elizabeth Parks, PhD
Contact Information
UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390
Office Phone: 214-648-1525
Office Fax: 214-648-1514
Biography
Dr. Parks received her BS in Exercise Physiology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She then became a research assistant, working on the prevention of atherosclerosis and mechanisms of artery plaque reversal in the Department of Pathology at the University of Washington in Seattle. Moving in 1991 to the University of California, Davis for graduate school, she received her PhD in 1995 from the Department of Nutrition and then became a postdoctoral fellow at Berkeley and at UC San Francisco in the laboratory of Marc Hellerstein, an expert in the study of human metabolism with methods such as gas chromatography/mass spectroscopy and mathematical modeling.
In 1999, she became an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota. Her laboratory investigated how healthy humans adjusted to the replacement of dietary fat with carbohydrate and the related mechanisms of fatty liver development in obesity.
Following promotion and tenure at Minnesota, Dr. Parks moved to UT Southwestern. Her laboratory is investigating the impact of dietary macronutrients on liver triglyceride accrual and the effect of the taste of fat in the diet to modulate intestinal and liver metabolism.
Education
| Graduate School | University of California-Davis (1995) |
Research Interests
Publications
Parks EJ, Skogen LA, Timlin MT, Dingfelder C , J of Nutrition , 2008; (138):1039-1046
Parks EJ, Hellerstein MK. , Amer J Clin Nutr , 2000; (71):412-33
Ramos-Roman MA, Sweetman L, Valdez MJ, Parks Elizabeth J , Metabolism, Clinical and Experimental , 2011; (Aug 4)
Bastarrachea RA, Veron SM, Vaidyanathan V, Garcia-Forey M, Voruganti VS, Higgins PB, Parks EJ , J Lipid Research , 2011; (52(6)):1272-1280
Chavez-Jauregui RN, Mattes RD, Parks EJ , Gastroenterology , 2010; (139(5)):1538-1548
Grefhorst A, Parks EJ , J Lipid Research , 2009; (50):1374-1383
Parks EJ, Hellerstein MK , J Lipid Research , 2006; (47):1651-1660
Donnelly KL, Smith CI, Schwarzenberg SJ, Jessurun J, Boldt MD, Parks EJ. , J Clin Invest , 2005; (115(5)):1343-1351
Parks EJ, Krauss RM, Christiansen MP, Neese RA, Hellerstein MK. , J Clin Invest , 1999; (104(8)):1087-1096
Frankel EN, Kanner J, German JB, Parks E, Kinsella JE. , Lancet , 1993; (341):454-457
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Honors/Awards
(2009)
(2007)
Given for excellence in teaching (2005)
Endowed Lectureship in the Department of Nutrition at Penn State (2002)
Leadership training (2001)
Merit Award from the International Life Sciences Institute (2000)
(1999)
Professional Associations/Affiliations
(2007)
(1999)
(1996)
(1995)