Cassie M. Mitchell, PhD, RDN/LDN

At the OU Health Campus, Dr. Mitchell serves as the Director for Nutrition Research at the Harold Hamm Diabetes Center and the PLANTEd Research Lab. She is passionate about translational nutritional physiology and enjoys helping collaborators across the research spectrum explore how nutrition interventions can be translated and scaled from animal, to clinical, to community models

to reduce the impacts of diet-related chronic diseases. Broadly, Dr. Mitchell's training and background focus on the clinical pathophysiology and metabolism of obesity and diabetes. ​

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She has an extensive training background in the development, design, and implementation of dietary interventions and physiological assessments including: skeletal muscle metabolism, glucose and insulin sensitivity, liver function, resting energy expenditure, graded exercise testing, body composition assessment, and bench top assays. Her current research focuses on the improvement of dietary quality during pregnancy and postpartum and Indigenous Food is Medicine.