Graduate Student
University of Toronto, Canada
I am a Registered Dietitian and PhD candidate in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine. My work has focused on the role of soy in metabolic health, including the Soy Treatment Evaluation for Metabolic (STEM) Health Trial, which examines how replacing sugar-sweetened beverages with fortified soymilk or low-fat cow’s milk influences liver fat and cardiometabolic risk. This project addresses the urgent global health priority of reducing metabolic disease risk through practical dietary substitution strategies, while informing sustainable plant-forward dietary patterns.