Norman Hord, PhD, MPH, RD

Norman Hord serves as an Associate Professor in Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Michigan State University (MSU), East Lansing, MI (USA). He received Bachelor of Science degree from Michigan State University, M.S. in nutrition from Clemson University, Ph.D. in nutrition from Purdue University, Master of Public Health degree from the Bloomberg School of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University and postdoctoral training as a Cancer Prevention Fellow at the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Hord has served as Chair of the Diet and Cancer Research Interest section of the American Society for Nutritional Sciences.

Dr. Hord supervises a research program that focuses on the role of dietary factors on phenotypes in colon epithelial cells related to colorectal cancer risk. His laboratory uses non-tumorigenic colon epithelial cell models to study dietary factor- and adipokine-induced cell behavior related to cancer risk. Dr. Hord has received grant support from the USDA Higher Education Challenge Grant program, the National Cancer Institute, the Kellogg Company, The J.F. Bell Institute for Health and Nutrition and various intramural funding sources. He has published research in nutrition, cancer research, cell biology and dietetics journals. He has served as a panel member of National Institutes of Health grant reviews, USDA NRI grant panel ad hoc reviewer and manuscript reviewer for cancer, cell biology, nutrition and dietetics journals.

Dr. Hord teaches courses in the undergraduate dietetics program and lectures in the Colleges of Human and Osteopathic Medicine as well as the Department of Epidemiology at MSU. He has served on the faculty of the Division of Cancer Prevention's Summer Curriculum in Cancer Prevention for the past ten years. He developed the MSU Dietetic Internship Program and currently serves as faculty coordinator for this program. This program recently received 10-year accreditation from The American Dietetic Association. Dr. Hord serves on numerous theses and dissertation committees as well as on departmental, college and university committees.