Rate My Professor Katie Eliot

Katie Eliot, PhD, RDN/LD, FAND, serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences and Director of the Office of Transformative Leadership at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center's College of Allied Health. She obtained her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from Saint Louis University in 2013, an MS in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in 2003, and a BS in Nutrition Science from Baylor University in 2001. Prior to her current appointment, she held the position of Assistant Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics at Saint Louis University. As a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Licensed Dietitian, she maintains active professional credentials and is a Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Additionally, she is a member of the Alpha Eta Honor Society.

Dr. Eliot's research focuses on the development, implementation, and evaluation of interprofessional education across the health professions continuum. Her scholarly interests include the role of interprofessional collaborative practice in alleviating stress and burnout among health professionals, interprofessional competencies applied to obesity prevention and treatment, and best practices for introductory interprofessional education in national multi-institution studies. In her teaching portfolio, she delivers courses such as NS 4213 Capstone Seminar, NS 5272 Geriatric Nutrition, and NS 5132 Adult Weight Management. Eliot has made substantial contributions to the literature on interprofessional education in nutrition and dietetics through peer-reviewed publications, including "Stress and Burnout in Nutrition and Dietetics: Strengthening Interprofessional Ties" (Nutrition Today, 2018), "The Impact of Interprofessional Education Experience on Post-Graduate Dietetic Students’ Self-Assessed Confidence in their Ability to Identify and Demonstrate Interprofessional Practice Behaviors" (Topics in Clinical Nutrition, 2018), "Student Perceptions of Collaboration Skills in an Interprofessional Context: Development and Initial Validation of the Self-Assessed Collaboration Skills (SACS) Instrument" (Evaluation and the Health Professions, 2018), "The Effectiveness of an Introductory Interprofessional Course in Building Readiness for Collaboration in the Health Professions" (Health and Interprofessional Practice, 2017), "The Value in Interprofessional Collaborative-ready Dietetics Practitioners" (Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 2015), and reports for the National Academy of Medicine on stress management in health professions education (2017). Her work underscores the importance of collaborative training for effective health care delivery.