MEASUREMENT OF COPPER DEFICIENCY IN HUMANS: CCS as a Novel Biomarker of Copper Status in Bariatric Surgery Patients

in nutrition science at Purdue University with a minor in biology. She spent two years in Dr. GletsuMiller’s lab where she completed an honors thesis and was part of the Transdisciplinary Obesity Prevention Research Science (TOPRS) program. Upon graduation she will continue doing research under a pediatric endocrinologist at the Indiana School of Medicine. She plans to attend medical school in the future. Nana Gletsu-Miller is currently an assistant professor of nutrition science at Purdue University. She obtained a PhD in nutrition and metabolism from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, in 1998. Her dissertation studies involved the effect of obesity on insulin signal transduction in the cell nucleus. Thereafter she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Pathology at Emory University, Atlanta, with Kenneth Bernstein, studying the transcriptional regulation of angiotensin converting enzyme. In 2002 she transitioned to focus on human studies in the field of bariatric surgery, in the Department of Surgery, Emory University, as a research instructor. In 2006 she became an assistant professor of research in surgery in the Hubert Department of Global Health. Her studies focused on the mechanisms responsible for resolution of type 2 diabetes following bariatric surgery Gletsu-Miller joined the Department of Nutrition Science at Purdue in 2011. Her studies investigate the nutritional status of bariatric surgery patients and focus on deficiencies in iron, copper, vitamin D, and essential fatty acids. MEASUREMENT OF COPPER DEFICIENCY IN HUMANS: CCS as a Novel Biomarker of Copper Status in Bariatric Surgery Patients