Marissa Burgermaster, PhD, Assistant Professor of Nutritional Sciences and Population Health, The University of Texas at Austin

• Burgermaster’s research, Nutri: A Clinic-Cluster Randomized Trial to Evaluate Primary Care Provider Nutrition Care for Diabetes, will be the first efficacy trial to evaluate the impact of primary care doctors addressing diet as a standard part of clinical diabetes care.
• “The Pathway award will provide me the resources and time needed to prove that we can transform care for millions of people living with diabetes by providing doctors a simple way to provide personalized dietary counseling in just minutes during routine appointments. Having the ADA’s support for this work is an absolute honor for me as a researcher. But it is also personal: My grandfather's struggle with diabetes showed me how desperately patients need practical nutrition guidance, but how difficult it is to get that support within our current health care system. As an organization that focuses on advocacy and education in addition to research, the ADA is an ideal partner for real-world impact.”