Assistant Professor
Texas Woman’s University
Dr. Helen Everts earned her BS at the Pennsylvania State University studying pre-medicine. She then received her MS and PhD in Nutrition Science at the University of Georgia. Under the direction of Dr. Carolyn D. Berdanier, Dr. Everts studied the effect of dietary vitamin A on mitochondrial diabetes. She then completed post-doctoral training in Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University Medical Center under the mentorship of Dr. David E. Ong. Here she studied vitamin A metabolism and began collaborations with skin and hair experts Drs. Lloyd E King Jr. and John P Sundberg. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Nutrition and Food Science department at Texas Woman’s University. Her research focuses on the role of dietary vitamin A and the synthesis and signaling of the active form, retinoic acid, within the skin and hair during health and disease.