Associate Professor
Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Dr Nancy Presse is a Registered Dietitian and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Community Health Sciences of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Sherbrooke. She is the Director of the Laboratory on Nutrition in Aging and Geriatric Nutrition at the Research Centre on Aging (Sherbrooke, QC) and the Research Centre of the Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal (Montreal, QC). Her research focuses mainly on screening, diagnosing and identifying the risk factors of vitamin B12 deficiency in older adults, on the prevention and treatment of weight loss among residents of nursing homes and long-term care settings, as well as on identifying older adults at nutritional risk in the community. Since January 2018, she ensures the general management of the NuAge Database and Biobank, a research infrastructure aiming to share with the scientific community around the world, high quality data and biological samples from a cohort of 1753 older adults followed for four consecutive years (https://nuage.recherche.usherbrooke.ca/en/). Dr Presse is a Junior 2 Research Scholar of the Fonds de recherche du Québec-Santé (2022-2026).