Education

Baccalaureate (BASc) in Applied Human Nutrition University of Guelph(1989).

Master of Science, Nutrition, McGill (1991).

PhD, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Western Ontario (1997)

Academic Positions

Faculty member, Department of Family Relations and Applied nutrition, University of Guelph (1996-2011)

Schlegel Research Chair, Nutrition and Aging and Professor, Department of Kinesiology, University of Waterloo (2012 –)

Awards

New Investigator Award Canadian Institutes of Health Research (2000-2006)

University of Guelph President’s Distinguished Professor Award (2000/2001)

Distinguished Lectureship, The Max K. Horwitt Memorial Lecture, St. Louis University, School of Medicine (2004)

Fellow of Dietitians of Canada (2006)

Betty Havens Knowledge Translation Award from the Institute of Aging, Canadian Institutes of Health (2007)

Other

Dr Keller has participated in several national and provincial projects aimed at supporting the nutritional health of older adults, and has been part of consultative groups with this perspective.

In addition to guest reviewing manuscripts for a wide variety of nutrition and aging journals, she is on the editorial board for the Journal for the Elderly, Journal of the American Medical Directors Association and the Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research.

Dr. Keller is also involved in mentoring activities through Dietitians of Canada, and in reviewing proposals for both the Canadian Foundation of Dietetic Research and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Her research has been funded by national (Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada), provincial (Early Years Challenge Fund) and foundation funding agencies (Alzheimer Society of Canada and the Danone Foundation for Research).