Sr. Nutrition Researcher
Westat
Deirdre Douglass, MS, RD is a research nutritionist with more than 30 years of experience in nutrition research and nutrient databases. She is a senior nutritionist and supervisor on Westat’s Dietary Assessment Team (DAT), which develops and maintains databases for dietary assessment instruments such as NCI’s Automated Self-Administered 24-Hour Dietary Assessment Tool (ASA24); develops, adapts, and links dietary databases for specialized nutrient research and mixed-mode data collection; coordinates telephone and field dietary data collection using USDA’s Automated Multiple Pass Method and the ASA24; and codes, cleans, and monitors dietary data quality. In work at the Michael and Susan Dell Center for the Advancement of Healthy Living, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, she coordinated the design, development, and testing of nutrient analysis software, including the Food Intake Analysis System, the Recipe Analysis Program, Survey Net, and ANSURS. She provided technical expertise for a variety of dietary research studies, such as the Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals, the Australia National Nutrition Survey, and the Nigerian Food Consumption and Nutrition Survey.