Dr. Kelly S. Swanson is the Director of the Division of Nutritional Sciences, Kraft Heinz Company Endowed Professor in Human Nutrition, and Professor in the Department of Animal Sciences and Division of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

 

Swanson’s research tests the effects of nutritional intervention on health outcomes, identifying how nutrients impact host physiology and gut microbiota, with primary emphasis on gastrointestinal health and obesity in companion animals. Over the past 2 decades, his lab has obtained over $27 million in research funding, published over 280 peer-reviewed journal articles, and given over 170 invited lectures at scientific meetings. He has trained 55 graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in his lab and has taught over 3,300 undergraduate, graduate, and veterinary students in 70 courses at the university.

 

Dr. Swanson teaches nutrition courses to undergraduate, graduate, and veterinary students annually and has been selected to the ‘List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students’ 17 times.

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