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Dean's Office

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Under the leadership of the Dean, this office strives to meet the needs of individual departments and programs, promote excellence across the Leahy College of Health Sciences as a whole, and to represent the priorities of the College of Health Sciences to the larger university community and external constituencies such as parents, alumni, grant-funding agencies, and the Leahy Clinic.

Victoria Hammer Castellanos, PhD, RD, is the Dean of the Leahy College of Health Sciences (LCHS) at the ³Ô¹ÏÌìÌÃ. The office has one associate dean and two assistant deans responsible for day-to-day management of the graduate and undergraduate programs.

Before becoming the Dean, she served as the Associate Dean of LCHS for 10 years.  Prior to joining the ³Ô¹ÏÌìÌÃ, Dr. Castellanos was Associate Dean of the ³Ô¹ÏÌìÌà Graduate School and Associate Professor of Nutrition at Florida International ³Ô¹ÏÌìÌà in Miami. Dr. Castellanos earned BS from Montana State ³Ô¹ÏÌìÌÃ, MS and PhD in Nutrition from the ³Ô¹ÏÌìÌà of California at Davis and completed an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Pennsylvania State ³Ô¹ÏÌìÌÃ. She has had numerous publications and grants in the area of nutrition care for frail older adults and served as the Director of the Long Term Care Institute in the National Resource Center on Nutrition, Physical Activity and Aging at Florida International ³Ô¹ÏÌìÌÃ.

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