Department of Health Sciences Faculty

Linda Bandini

Clinical Assistant Professor of Nutrition

B.S. University of MA, Amherst; Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. Bandini is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Health Sciences at Boston University. She has been working in the area of energy expenditure and childhood obesity for the past 20 years. Dr. Bandini was the prinicipal investigator on a 10-year longitudinal study of growth and development in pre-adolescent girls at MIT from 1997-2002. She is presently the Director of Nutrition for the LEND program (Leadership Education in Neurodevelopment and related Disabilities) at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center in Waltham, MA and is on the faculty at UMASS Medical School. Her current research interests are in the area of health promotion for children with special needs. She is the Principal Investigator on a NIH funded research study on nutrition and activity in children with autism and a co-investigator on a family based weight reduction study for children with Down syndrome, and a research study on motor skills, physical fitness and physical activity in children in children with and without motor coordination difficulties.

Phone: 617-353-7519 | email: lbandini@bu.edu

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