Researcher

Matthew presenting doctoral research at the American Society for Nutrition conference in Baltimore, MD in 2019.

Matthew presenting doctoral research at the American Society for Nutrition conference in Baltimore, MD in 2019.

My research lab is interested what people are eating, understanding the behavioral and social influences as to why people eat the foods that they do, and working with individuals and communities to understand how to overcome barriers and improve their diets.

 
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Research Areas of Interest

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Dietary Patterns

Identifying the optimal diet (or diets) for chronic disease prevention, addressing the challenges of designing, implementing and reporting clinical trials that test dietary patterns, and ensuring that dietary pattern recommendations are culturally competent and relevant to Americans by allowing a variety of appropriate dietary intakes consistent with personal, cultural, and religious preferences.

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Cardiometabolic Health During the Transition to Fatherhood

Identifying modifiable lifestyle behaviors (such as poor dietary patterns, physical inactivity, elevated stress, and poor sleep quality and duration) that moderate cardiovascular health among fathers during the transition to fatherhood that can be future targets for lifestyle medicine-based interventions. Interested in understanding the intersectionality of varied types of exposures and outcomes and how they interact to impact health and health disparities, for the father-mother-baby triad.

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Child Food Security

Examining how children perceive food insecurity experiences, meso- and macro-level barriers that food insecure households face in availability, access, and utilization of foods, particularly nutrient dense vegetables, the dual relationship between food literacy and food insecurity, and how food insecurity impacts child diet quality.

Impostor Phenomenon

Research focusing on the impostor phenomenon, a pervasive psychological experience of perceived intellectual and professional fraudulence within nutrition and dietetics professionals. Interested in determining the prevalence of the phenomenon, association with job performance, job satisfaction and burnout, and strategies to address and overcome feelings of impostorism.