Title: Associate Professor
Department: Human Nutrition and Food Science
Contact Information: Room: 2-119
Phone: (909) 869-3793
E-Mail: Bburnswhitmo@csupomona.edu
Home Page: http://www.csupomona.edu/~bburnswhitmo/
BS: Microbiology Biology, Human Biology
La Sierra University (Formerly Loma Linda University )
La Sierra Campus (1993)
MPH: Masters, Public Health and Nutrition (1995), Loma Linda University School of Public Health, concurrent with the Loma Linda University Department of Dietetics and Nutrition requirements for Registered Dietitians
DrPH(c): Doctor of Public Health Nutrition (2005) Loma Linda University School of Public Health
Bonny Burns-Whitmore, DrPH, RD is a lecturer with Department of Human Nutrition and Food Science, California State PolyTechnic University, Pomona. She has been teaching at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona since 1995. She began teaching Biology while attending Loma Linda University, La Sierra Campus in 1991. While attending graduate school at Loma Linda University School of Public Health, she taught Medical Microbiology at La Sierra University as well as conducting research at Loma Linda University Medical Center and Jerry L. Pettis Vertern's Hospital. Following completion of her didactic program and internship, she became a Registered Dietitian. She recently completed her doctorate at Loma Linda University in Public Health Nutrition.
Online classes such as: Food and Culture Online and Nutrition Science and Health Online (FN 228 and FN 305), as well as traditional classes such as: Food and Culture, Community Nutrition and Lab, Nutrition, Science and Health, Introduction to Food Science Lecture and Laboratory, Nutrition Education Lecture and Lab, Experimental Foods Lecture and Laboratory, Current Issues in the Food Chain, Nutrition and the Integrated Being, Medical Nutrition Therapy lecture and lab, Basic Medical Microbiology Lecture and Laboratory, General Biology III Laboratory, Immunology Laboratory, Cellular Molecular Biology Laboratory, General Biology I Laboratory, General Biology II Laboratory.
Bonny has diverse research interests in both nutrition and biology. She has just completed research on a human feeding study that looked at omega-3 incorporation into red blood cells from walnuts and DHA eggs, lutein levels from egg feedings, and a comparison of blood cholesterol levels of eggs, DHA eggs and walnuts. Both the American Egg Commission ($50,000) and the Agriculture Research Initiative ($50,000) funded the research, Chino Valley Ranchers (al local egg supplier) supplied all the eggs and the California Walnut Commission donated the walnuts.
She recently finished an Egg Sensory Evaluation in a consumer panel between organic and n-3 fatty acid enriched eggs. The n-3 fatty acid enriched eggs were from chickens ed marine algae and from chicken fed flaxseed. Participants performed a duo-trio test, as well as a preference ranking. A poster will be submitted for IFT 2006.
Past studies include: She worked with Dr. Joan Sabate and Dr. Zaida Cordero-McIntyre at Loma Linda University on a free-living Walnut Feeding Study in 2001-2003. She completed a project for the California Egg Commission that involved gathering all the recent research that has been done on eggs within the last 10 years in 2000. She received a $10,000 grant for this project as well as an Agriculture Research Initiative Grant for $7,500. She worked with Kashi Company to determine optimum heating temperatures and consumer preference for a new Kashi cereal products. Her research group researched and successfully made liposomes that carried a phosphatase enzyme. She aided in the design, research and experimentation to determine post-traslational changes of the amino acids in the Streptomycin binding sites in E. coli ribosomes. She also attempted to grow and maintain a tumor line of a rare infantile fibrosarcoma to determine if it could be established as a true tumor line. Unfortunately, the cells were later found to be apoptosic.
Bonny was awarded membership in Gamma Sigma Delta in 1999 and is an honorary member of Phi Upsilon Omicron Honor Society. She is a Registered Dietitian with the American Dietetic Association and belongs to many professional organizations such as the American Public Health Association, A.P.H.A. Food and Nutrition Group, American Dietetic Association, California Dietetic Association, Vegetarian Practice Group, Educators' Group, Tri-Counties Dietetic Group, and The American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences. Bonny has developed numerous educational materials. For example, she has developed and designed class handouts, laboratory manuals as well as presenting numerous lectures. She has presented lectures to the Biology of Cancer class at Cal Poly Pomona regarding Nutrition and Cancer, has taught a Nutrition class at Western University, given a lecture to the Glendale Chiropractic Clinic regarding Heart Disease, Hypertensive and Diabetic Diets, and CAL-PRO-NET regarding Child Nutrition. She has written and published two chapters with Dr. A.S. Naidu Thiosulfinates from Garlic, and Glucosides. Narian Naidu, CRC Press, 2000, published these chapters in his book, Natural Food Antimicrobial Systems. She has also designed a new Introduction to Food Science Manual. She has developed educational handouts for An Objective Approach to Twenty Five Common Herbs and Their Indications, and presented this at Arcadia Methodist Hospital for physicians, nurses, dietitians and other health professionals. Staff writers of the San Gabriel Valley News, Pasadena Star, and the San Gabriel Tribune interviewed her regarding her research of herbs; and she has recently been interviewed by CNN and MSNBC regarding the health benefits of omega-3 fatty acids.
