Lisa Houghton

Lisa Houghton
Other namesLisa Anne Houghton
EducationUniversity of Guelph
Alma materUniversity of Toronto
Known forCommunity and international nutrition
Scientific career
FieldsHuman nutrition
InstitutionsAcadia University
University of Otago
Thesis
  • The effect of folate supplementation on folate status and breastmilk folate concentration in lactating women  (2007)
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Lisa Anne Houghton is a New Zealand-based scientist, professor and head of the Department of Human Nutrition at the University of Otago.

Academic career

Houghton graduated from the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada with a MSc (1996) for her thesis titled "The Influence of Dietary Fiber on the Folate Status of a Group of Adolescent Females".[1][2] Following graduation, she worked at Acadia University as assistant professor, at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto before moving to the United States to work at Abbott Laboratories in the Premature Infant Nutrition division.[2]

She completed a PhD (2007) in nutritional sciences at the University of Toronto. Her thesis was "The effect of folate supplementation on folate status and breastmilk folate concentration in lactating women".[3]

Houghton moved to New Zealand in 2008 to take up a lecturing role at the University of Otago.[2] She was promoted to associate professor in November 2015.[4] In December 2019 she, along with two of her colleagues Rachel Brown and Caroline Horwath, was promoted to full professor with effect from 1 February 2020.[5] She combines her academic role with that of director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre in Human Nutrition.[6]

Selected works

References

  1. ^ Houghton, L. A. (1996). The influence of dietary fiber on the folate status of a group of adolescent females (MSc). University of Guelph. Archived from the original on 14 February 2021. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "Professor Lisa Houghton". University of Otago. Archived from the original on 14 February 2021. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  3. ^ The effect of folate supplementation on folate status and breastmilk folate concentration in lactating women. ISBN 9780494277218. Archived from the original on 27 October 2021. Retrieved 7 February 2021. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  4. ^ "Lisa Houghton Promoted". University of Otago. 11 November 2015. Archived from the original on 7 February 2018. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  5. ^ "30 new Professors for the University of Otago". University of Otago. 10 December 2019. Archived from the original on 18 January 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  6. ^ "Nutrition: Collaborating Centres: New Zealand". World Health Organization. Archived from the original on 12 November 2016. Retrieved 7 February 2021.