Academics

Meet the Faculty

Susan Edgar Helm
Associate Professor, Nutritional Science
Coordinator
Majors Advisor A-M

Division: Natural Science Division
Office: Rockwell Academic Center (RAC) 111
Phone: (310) 506-4325
E-mail: susan.helm@pepperdine.edu

• Ph.D., Physiological Chemistry, University of California, Davis, 1993
• R.D., Clinical Nutrition, Texas A&M, 1986
• M.S., Nutritional Sciences, Texas A&M, 1987
• B.S., Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, NY, 1984

Courses:

• Nutrition (all levels)
• Dietetics
• Medical Nutrition Therapy
• Physiological Chemistry
• Nutrition Laboratory
• Research Statistics

Key Awards/Affiliations:

• National Science Foundation, $126,000 RT-PCR
• National Institute of Aging, $1.6 million collaborative grant with UCLA
• Gloria O. Zellmar Grant, $10,000 California Dietetic Association Clinical Art and Nutrition
• Collaborative Research, $20,000 Art and Nutrition

Academic Interests:

• Art and Nutrition
• Nutrigenomics
• Regulation of Metabolism

Selected Links:

• Didactic Program in Dietetics (DPD)