NUTRITION

Hope BARKOUKIS, PhD, RD, LD

Associate Professor
Chair - SCAN (Sports, Cardiovascular, Wellness Nutrition)*
    * A practice group of the ADA


Hope Barkoukis is a registered dietitian who received her Ph.D. in Nutrition from Case Western Reserve University.  Prior to joining the faculty, she served as corporate nutrition consultant for Fortune 500 companies specializing in wellness and sports nutrition. She was also 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 - a Federally-funded program designed to foster the integration of nutrition education into public (K-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:


• NTRN 342: Food Science;
  
• NTRN 440: Nutrition for the Aging and Aged;
  
• NTRN 343: Dietary Patterns;
  
• NTRN 364: Vitamins;
  
• NTRN 388: Nutrition for Sports and Fitness.

in 2001, Dr. Barkoukis was the recipient of the 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.

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:


Barkoukis H.  Importance of Understanding Food Consumption Patterns.  Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 107(2): 234-236, 2007.

Barkoukis H., Marchetti C.M., Nolan B., Sistrun S.N., Krishnan R.K., Kirwan J.P.  A High Glycemic Meal Suppresses the Postprandial Leptin Response In Normal Healthy Adults.  Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, 51: 512, 2007.

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.