Kudos to Diane Berry, Ph.D.

Diane Berry, Ph.D., an associate professor of nursing at UNC-Chapel Hill, recently used preliminary data from an NC TraCS 50K pilot award to land an R21 grant from the National Institutes of Health. She and her colleagues will use the newly awarded grant to test an interdisciplinary intervention – including the benefits of breastfeeding, understanding gestational diabetes and risk of progression to prediabetes and type 2 diabetes, nutrition and exercise education, coping skills training and physical activity -- in predominantly minority low-income women diagnosed with gestational diabetes.

Berry serves as principal investigator on the $222,000 award, which she shares with Alison Stuebe, M.D., assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology (multiple PI); Sarah Verbiest, Dr.P.H., M.S.W., M.P.H., executive director, center for maternal and infant health (co-PI on both the R21 and the NC TraC$ 50K pilot award); and Todd Schwartz, Dr. P.H., assistant professor of biostatistics (co-PI).