Esperanza Briones is Professor and Coordinator of the Dietetics Program in the College of Health Sciences and Human Services at the University of Texas - Pan American. She obtained her Ph.D. in Human Nutrition from Michigan State University. She received a pre and post doctoral training awards from NIH and Mayo Clinic Foundation to work in the Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine at Mayo Clinic for three years. Her first academic position was at Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions in Boston, and then to the University of Illinois in Chicago. In both positions, she had clinical appointments. She came to UTPA in 1994. She has published in the areas of lipids and lipoprotein metabolism in diabetes and other conditions, and presented her research studies in national and international scientific meetings. Her current research involves medical nutrition therapy in Mexican American diabetic adults for the purpose of delaying and preventing various medical complications.

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