Hope Barkoukis, PhD LD
Assistant Professor
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office:
CASE - SOM
School of Medicine
WG 48
phone: (216) 368-2441
fax: (216) 368-6644
email: hdb@case.edu
mailing address:
Department of Nutrition
Case Western Reserve University
School of Medicine - WG 48
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland OH 44106-4954
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Background
Hope Barkoukis is a registered
dietitian who received her Ph.D. in Nutrition from CWRU. Prior to
joining the faculty she was a corporate nutrition consultant for Fortune
500 companies specializing in wellness and sports nutrition, a clinical
research dietitian, and on the faculty of Cleveland State University.
While at Cleveland State, she was the Director of the Nutrition Education
and Training Center. This was a federally funded program designed
to foster the integration of nutrition education into public (K through
12) school curriculums.
Dr. Barkoukis completed advanced training in culinary arts and has
taught healthy cooking courses for television audiences as well as
professional and community groups. She has conducted research in the
areas of insulin resistance and substrate utilization in hepatic cirrhosis,
as well as the use of low glycemic dietary interventions to modulate
insulin sensitivity.
Currently Dr. Barkoukis is an undergraduate nutrition advisor
and teaches Nutrition 342: Food Science; Nutrition 440: Nutrition
for the Aging and Aged; Nutrition 343: Dietary Patterns; Nutrition
364: Vitamins; and Nutrition 388: Nutrition for Sports and Fitness.
Dr. Barkoukis was the recipient of the 2001 John S. Diekhoff Award for Distinguished
Graduate Teaching awarded by the CWRU School of Graduate Studies.
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
1. Nutritional
management of chronic liver diseases such as cirrhosis and hepatitis
C;
2. Nutritional issues in the elderly
including determination of nutritional status, factors influencing
insulin sensitivity, use of the glycemic index to modulate weight
and glucose
metabolism, sports nutrition and dietary supplementation issues;
3. Issues of food safety;
4. Dietary supplement use, abuse, fraud.
PUBLICATIONS
Steiber A., Barkoukis
H. Individualized Research Experiences in a Dietetic Internship
Program. Topics in Clinical Nutrition, 21(3):
176, 2006.
Steiber A., Barkoukis
H.
Healthy Eating Index Scores in a Nationally Representative Sample
of Individuals with End Stage Renal Disease. Journal of
the American Dietetic Association,
106(8): 6, 2006.
Barkoukis H., Marchetti C.,
Stetzer B., Gonzalez F., Kirwan J. VO2 Max and
Dietary Carbohydrate Determine the Variance in
Insulin Resistance Following Exercise in Obese Elderly. Medicine
and Science in Sports & Exercise,
May volume 36(5): 19, 2004.
Kirwan J., Marchetti C., Barkoukis H.,
Stetzer B., and Gonzalez F. Effects of Exercise and Dietary
Glycemic Load on Insulin Resistance in Obese Elderly. The
Gerontologist; (43): 430, 2003.
Barkoukis, H. Glycemic
Index: A Complementary approach to the diabetes exchange diet. NCC
Newsletter of The American Dietetic Association; Vol.
5(2): 23, 2002.
Barkoukis H., Fiedler
K.M., and Lerner E. A combined high-fiber,
low-glycemic index diet normalizes glucose tolerance and reduces
hyperglycemia and hyperinsulinemia in adults with hepatic cirrhosis. J.
Am. Diet. Assoc.; 102: 1503-7, 2002.
Barkoukis H.,
McCullough A.J., Lerner E., and Fiedler K. An Examination
of Substrate Utilization in Adults with Hepatic
Cirrhosis: The Impact of Meal Glycemic Index. Journal
of the American College of Nutrition; Vol. 21(5): 479, 2002.
Barkoukis, H. Genetic Nutritioneering (Book Review); J. Am. Diet. Assoc., 2000.
Barkoukis, H. Anti-aging Zone Diet (Book Review); J. Am. Diet. Assoc., 1999.
Barkoukis, H. Healing Anxiety with Herbs (Book Review); J. Am. Diet. Assoc., 1998.
Barkoukis, H. Insulin resistance. (SCAN Nutrition Newsletter); May 1996.
Barkoukis, H. The liver and its effect on endocrine function in health and disease. In Schiff L., Schiff E. (eds). Diseases of the Liver, 7th Edition. Philadelphia: JB Lippincott, 1993.
Barkoukis, H. Adolescent obstetric clinics. (National Dairy Council); Nutrition News, 1978.
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