Eleanor Schlenker
- Department Head (1988-98)
Biography
Eleanor Schlenker was HNFE's department head from 1988-1998. During that time, she led the accreditation of the undergraduate dietetics program and dietetic internship, facilitated the merger of HNF and the exercise science program, and managed a 10-year growth in undergraduate enrollment from less than 100 students to nearly 500.
Within Virginia Cooperative Extension, she implemented a community- and church-based diabetes education program with rigorous standards of evaluation that attracted more than $2 million in funding from the Obici HealthCare Foundation, Virginia Department of Health, and the National Institutes of Health.
The third edition of her textbook, Nutrition and Aging, was translated into Spanish for South American students. She has been the co-author of three editions of Williams Essentials of Nutrition and Diet Therapy, a textbook for degree-seeking nursing students.
Williams' Essentials of Nutrition and Diet Therapy by Eleanor Schlenker PhD, RD and Sara Long Roth PhD, RD, LD (Dec 1, 2010)
Nutrition in Aging by Eleanor D. Schlenker (Jan 1, 1998)
Keep Your Child Safe - Home - Virginia Cooperative Extension
Who Cares for the Caregiver? - Family and Consumer Sciences
Mold and Your Home - Home - Virginia Cooperative Extension
The 2010 Census: BE COUNTED - Family and Consumer Sciences
Home Safety - Home - Virginia Cooperative Extension
Safe Disposal of Household Chemicals: Protect Yourself and Your Community
Living Well Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 1
Living Well Newsletter, Volume 5, Issue 1
Living Well Newsletter, Volume 6, Issue 1
Member, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Held positions with the Council on Practice, the Committee on Health Care Reform and renewal of the Older Americans Act, and the Review Committee for Position Papers
Liaison to the National Council on the Aging and the National Voluntary Organizations for Independent Living for the Elderly
Served as Chair of the Gerontological Nutrition Section
Editorial board member for the Journal of Nutrition in Gerontology and Geriatrics
Served as the first editor of the quarterly Extension publication, Living Well (recognized for excellence by the National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences)
HNF 5110 (changed to 5114) Minerals in Human Nutrition
HNF 5620 Nutrition and Aging
Nutrition Across the Lifespan
Undergraduate Seminar
Ph.D., Michigan State University
M.S., Drexel University
B.S., Albright College