Good Morning

My name is Jennifer Burris and I am currently a doctoral candidate in Nutrition at New York University. I am working on my dissertation research and a colleague in our department recently suggested your listserv.  I am reaching out to you today via email in hopes that I might be able to advertise our research study to Hunter Students?

In brief - we are investigating the relationship between eating patterns and acne.  We are hoping to recruit participants with and without acne.  The entire study will consist of two study visits, both lasting less than 1 hour.  Each visit will be conducted at the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at NYU.  During the study we will be asking participants to fill out a food record and complete a short questionnaire on skin and food beliefs.  We will also measure height, weight, waist circumference, body composition, and take a fasting blood draw (about 30 mL or 1 T of blood).   We will also take a picture of the participants face, which will be destroyed after the dermatologist categorizes the participant's acne or no acne.  Each participant will receive a copy of their individual results as well as a $25 incentive as a thank you for participating in our study.  Our goal was to recruit 60 participants.  We are almost at our goal!  We are only looking for a few more students and thought some of the students at Hunter College might be interested?

The study already has IRB approval from NYU.  I would be happy to provide you with documentation including a copy of the IRB approval, study flyers, study proposal, or methods. 

Thank you for your help, I really appreciate it.  I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Jennifer Burris

Jennifer Burris MS, RD, CNSC, CSSD, CDE