Congratulations to the ON DPG 2024 Award Recipients!
2024 ON DPG Education Grant Recipient
Olga Lucia Pinzon Espitia, PhD, RDN, Nutritionist-Dietitian, National University of Columbia and Professor, Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia.
2024 Excellence in Oncology Nutrition Research Award
Tonya Orchard, PhD, RD, FAND, Associate Professor Human Nutrition, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, and Director of the Didactic Program in Dietetics, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
2024 Distinguished Practice Award
Anu Kaur, MS, RDN, RYT-500, PhD Student in Health Communications, George Mason University, certified well coach, registered dietitian and yoga teacher, Ashburn, Virginia.
2024 Connie San Andres-Robles Distinguished Service Awards
Mridul Datta, PhD, RD, LD, FAND, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Foods Science and Human Nutrition and Director of the Master of Professional Practice in Dietetics Program, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
Renee Stubbins, PhD, RD, LD, CSO, Clinical Oncology Dietitian Educator, Houston Methodist Neal Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
2024 Professional Partner Award
Vickie E. Baracos, PhD, Professor, Palliative Care Medicine, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Canada
2024 Friend of the DPG Award
Kunal C Kadakia, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Chief of Oncology Nutrition at Atrium Health Levine Cancer in Charlotte, North Carolina.
2023 ON DPG Research Grant Recipients
Congratulations to our 2023 ON DPG Research Grant Recipients:
$5,000 Awards (post-doctoral research):
Dena Champion, MS, RD, LD, CNSC, Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center: “Garden of Hope:
Assessing the impact of a Garden-based Food is Medicine Intervention for Cancer Survivors.”
Asuka Suzuki, PhD, RD, University of Kansas Medical Center: “Gut microbiota and lifestyle risk factors of
colorectal cancer in younger and older adults: A case-control feasibility study.”
$1,500 (new researcher or practicing clinician):
Karly Miller BS, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor: “Diet Quality and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in
Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Survivors.”
Zhongyao Li, MS, RD, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutritional Sciences and Policy: “Ultra-
Processed Food Consumptions and Breast Cancer Risk and Mortality in Two Large Prospective Cohort Studies"
Page updated: September 2024