Dr. Askew is Professor of Human Nutrition and the Director of the Division of Nutrition in the College of Health at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. He teaches metabolism, sports nutrition, nutrition for environmental extremes and conducts research on nutrition and human performance. He received his Ph.D. in nutritional biochemistry from the Institute of Nutrition, Michigan State University. Prior to his current position at the University of Utah, he was a Medical Service Corps Officer with the U.S. Army Medical Department; assignments included the U.S. Army Medical Research and Nutrition Laboratory, Denver, CO; Letterman Army Institute of Research, Presidio of San Francisco, CA; Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, HI; and the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick, MA, where he was Chief of Military Nutrition Research for the U.S. Army. His research involves the study of oxidative stress, biochemical adaptations to exercise training, the role of nutrition in physical performance, assessment of nutritional status, and nutrition for human performance in environmental extremes including heat, cold and high altitude. He is a member of the American College of Sports Medicine, the American Institute of Nutrition, the American Society for Clinical Nutrition, the American Dietetic Association, the International Society for Mountain Medicine, and the Wilderness Medical Society. He has served as a member of the United States Olympic Committee Nutrition Advisory panel and as a member of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Advisory Committee on Food Safety. He is currently a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Military Nutrition.
Research Statement
Influence of nutrition on human physiology and performance in extreme environments.