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Josephine Connolly-Schoonen
Associate Clinical Professor of Family Population and Preventive medicine, Chief of
Nutrition Division, Director of Dietetic Internship Program
Family Population
Preventive Medicine
Renaissance School of Medicine
Biography
Josephine Connolly-Schoonen’s expertise is in the area of nutritional management of obesity and chronic illnesses from the individual, school and community level. In addition, she directs the Stony Brook Dietetic Internship Program and a series of community nutrition projects funded by the New York State Department of Health since 1994. She is also the author of Losing Weight Permanently with the Bull’s Eye Food Guide (Bull Publishing, 2004).
Education
- PhD, Stony Brook University
- MS, Pennsylvania State University
- BS, Cornell University
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October 13, 2017
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July 1, 2016
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January 25, 2016
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