Dr. Nicola McKeown is a research professor in Nutrition Epidemiology at the Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Boston University. Her research largely focuses on the impact of diet quality on disease risk and healthy aging, with consideration of how genetics and other ‘omics’ may alter diet-disease risk as we age. She is the PI of an innovative project that created a publicly available dietary fiber database that captures current research linking dietary fibers to human health outcomes. She is a scientific advisor for the Whole Grains Council and on the scientific advisory board for the Grain Foods Foundation. Dr. McKeown is internationally renowned for her research examining the role of whole grains in promoting health. She was the 2014 recipient of the ASN General Mills Bell Institute of Health and Nutrition Innovation Award.