Foods and Nutrition Faculty
Susan Fisher, RD, LD
Associate Professor of Human Environmental Sciences
224 Martin Hall
(919)760-8079
fishers@meredith.edu
Susan Fisher teaches in both the foods and nutrition undergraduate and masters in nutrition programs. She attended Tulane University and Florida State University and received her doctorate from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. In addition to nutrition, she is interested in health, wellness and policy issues for older adults.
Ronni Lee Bowen Westbrook, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Human Environmental Sciences
214 Martin Hall
(919) 760-8157
Dr. Ronni Westbrook comes to Meredith College via New York where she earned a B.F.A. from New York University, a M.S. in Nutrition Education from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Community Nutrition from Cornell University. Prior to joining Meredith, Dr. Westbrook completed a postdoctoral fellowship as a W.K. Kellogg Community Health Scholar in the School of Public Health at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her teaching and research interests include: sociocultural and environmental influences on food choices; adolescent health and nutrition; healing properties of foods; and qualitative and participatory research methodologies.
Bill Landis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Human Environmental Sciences
222 Martin Hall
(919) 760-2355
landisb@meredith.edu
Graduated with a B.S. from Guilford College, and received his M.S. and Ph.D. in foods and nutrition from University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He was a faculty member at Ball State University in Indiana before coming to Meredith College in 1996. Landis is the program coordinator for the foods and nutrition program, and is the director of the M.S. program in nutrition. His interests and research background includes local and organic foods, sustainable diets and methods of food production, vegetarianism, and sports nutrition.
Courses Taught: Introductory nutrition, Nutrient metabolism, Senior colloquium, Research methods, Graduate electives, organic food production
Cathie Ostrowski
Instructor of Human Environmental Sciences
132 Martin
(919) 760-8419
ostrowsk@meredith.edu
Cathie Ostrowski is the director of the dietetic internship program and an adjunct professor in both the foods and nutrition. She holds a B.S. and an M.S. in dietetics from D'Youville College in New York. In addition to teaching at Meredith, she owns a nutrition counseling and corporate consulting firm working with several well-known companies and organizations such as Cisco Systems, North Carolina Pork Council, GlaxoSmithKline, Cary Family YMCA and Rich Products Corporation. Ostrowski received the Recognized Young Dietitian of the Year in 2000 and the North Carolina Dietetic Association's Educator of the Year in 2007.
