Jillian Trabulsi, PhD, RD

Current Position: Chair and Associate Professor, Department of Behavioral Health and Nutrition, University of Delaware

Jillian Trabulsi, PhD RDN, FAND is an Associate Professor and Chair of Department of Behavioral Health and Nutrition at the University of Delaware. Her research program focuses on diet, nutritional status, growth, energy expenditure, and energy balance in infants and children who are healthy and in those with chronic disease. Her research is funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health as well as private foundations and her work is published in peer-reviewed journals. She started her career as a Registered Dietitian, working for 7 years at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She then went on to earn her Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences at The University of Wisconsin – Madison where she was trained in diet assessment methodologies and stable isotope techniques for the measurement of energy expenditure. She completed a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in Pediatric Nutrition and Growth at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and completed the LEND (Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) Training Program.