Lab Positions Available - Precision Ketogenic Therapy

An opportunity for undergraduate students has opened up in our lab starting this summer. We are looking for students to start as soon as possible.

 Task 1: Facilitate patient care by entering and auditing patient data of children receiving Precision Ketogenic Therapy for epilepsy

This is an opportunity for a student to participate in the custody of patient data that is used for patient care. Our lab provides Precision Ketogenic Therapy, a nutritional therapy, to people with intractable epilepsy (these patients do not respond to medications). Patient data is collected every 3 to 6 months at clinic visits and consists of daily data as well as data obtained at clinic. Additionally, recipes for patients on Precision Ketogenic Therapy need to be created or updated as the patient’s diet prescription changes. The overall goal of this task is to enter and audit clinic data and create and update patient recipes so that data can be used to facilitate patient care. Working knowledge of Microsoft office, particularly excel and word, is needed. There is an opportunity to start a research project as skills and understanding of our research program are developed.

 Contact information:

Peggy R. Borum, Ph.D.

Professor of Human Nutrition

572 Newell Drive

409 FSHN, PO 110370

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL, 32611

Phone: 352-392-7553

Fax: 352-392-8957

Email: prb@ufl.edu

Website: http://borum.ifas.ufl.edu/