Research Overview
Ellen Shanley joined the Department of Allied Health Sciences at the University of Connecticut in 2008 as the Director of the Coordinated Program in Dietetics and the Dietetic Internship in Allied Health Sciences.  She is a registered dietitian.  Professor Shanley has been at the University of Connecticut since 1985 and was the Didactic Program Director for Dietetics.  She is presently working on a USDA funded food safety education grant.  Her area of specialization is food service management and nutrition education.  She has a great deal of passion about the profession of dietetics and has held numerous positions in the Connecticut Dietetic Association as well as at the national level of the American Dietetic Association.  She most

Education
MBA, Babson College, 1977

Dietetic Internship, Massachusetts General Hospital, 1974

BS, Syracuse, Nutrition & Food Science, 1973

Featured Publications

            E.L. Shanley, MBA, RD, CD-N; C.A. Thompson, MS, RD; J.L. Rogers; J. Goyzueta, MPH; J.M. Douglass, DDM; E. Thibodeau, DMD, PhD, S.T. Reisine, PhD.  Nutrition Education Intervention for Pregnant Women with High Oral Mutans Streptocci Levels.  Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 2008: 108(9); A-90.

            C.A. Thompson, MS, RD; K. Jeffrey, MS; N.R. Rodriguez, PhD, RD; E.L. Shanley, MBA, RD, CD-N.  A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Traditional Classroom-Style Teaching to a Self-Paced Internet-Based Food Safety Education Program for Secondary School-Aged Students.  Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 2007: 107(8); A-61.

E.L. Shanley, MBA, RD, CD-N; K. Jeffrey, MS; N.R. Rodriguez, PhD, RD; C.A. Thompson, MS, RD. Assessing the Effectiveness of a Self-Directed Food Safety Education Program for Secondary School-Aged Students.  Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 2006:106(8).

A.B. Courville¹; C.A. Thompson, MS, RD¹; M.N. Cummings, PhD ²; J.S. Kurzynske, PhD, RD³; A. DePalma,PhD⁴, E.L. Shanley, MBA, RD, CD-N¹, ¹Univ. of CT., Nutr. Sci., Storrs, CT; ²NM State Univ., Family & Consumer Sci., Las Cruces, NM; ³Univ. of KY, Nutr. & Fd. Sci., Lexington, KY, ⁴Univ. of CT., Continuing Studies, Storrs, CT.  Food Safety Knowledge of High-Risk and Underserved Secondary School Students.  Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 2004:104(9).

              E.L. Shanley, MBA, RD, CD-N¹; C.A. Thompson, MS, RD¹; L.A. Leuchner, MS¹; Y. Zhao, PhD², ¹Univ. of Conn., Dept. of Nutritional Sciences, Storrs, CT, ² Oregon State University, Dept. of Fd. Sci. & Technology, Corvallis,OR.  Distance Education Is as Effective as Traditional Education when Teaching Food Safety.  Food Service Technology.  2004:(4); 1-8.

C.A. Thompson, MS, RD; E.L. Shanley, MBA, RD, CD-N.  Overcoming Childhood Obesity. Bull Publishing: Boulder. 2003.

            E.L. Shanley, MBA, RD, CD-N; C.A. Thompson, C.A., MS, RD.  Fueling the Teen Machine. Bull Publishing: Palo Alto. 2001.