Brenda Bertrand was a scholarship track and cross country runner and earned her undergraduate degree in Nutrition from Auburn University. She completed a Dietetic Internship and earned a Master of Science degree in Clinical Nutrition from UAB, and PhD in Nutrition from Auburn. She completed a Doctoral Internship at the Children’s Seashore House (Philadelphia, PA). Her dissertation research assessed changes in energy expenditure and dietary intake among infants and young children with sickle cell disease during pain crisis and usual health.
Brenda is presently a Professor and Program Director for the Masters of Nutrition Science She has over 15 years’ experience teaching undergraduate and graduate students using face-to-face as well as online instruction and 9 years’ experience directing graduate programs. She has received training in the case-based method of teaching from the National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science (University of Buffalo), and uses this method of instruction for all courses that she teaches. She has received Excellence in Teaching awards at the college and state levels. In fact, she completed a qualitative study to better understand student learning from case-based teaching.
