CONTACT INFORMATIONCREDENTIALSAWARDSPUBLICATIONSBridget E. Young, Ph.D.Contact InformationLocationsUniversity of Rochester Medical CenterSchool of Medicine and Dentistry601 Elmwood Ave, Box 690Rochester, NY 14642Faculty AppointmentsResearch Assistant Professor - Department of Pediatrics , Pediatric Allergy/Immunology (SMD) Research Assistant Professor - Department of Public Health Sciences (SMD) - JointBiographyResearchDr. Young studied Maternal and Child Nutrition at Cornell University where she received her PhD. She then pursued a postdoctoral fellowship in Pediatric Nutrition at the University of Colorado. She joined the faculty at the University of Rochester in 2018 and currently conducts clinical research among breastfeeding mothers and their infants. Bridget Young's research interests are on the impact of obesity and insulin resistance on breast milk composition, and resultant programming effects in the infant. She particularly focuses on the effect of oral insulin in human milk on infant pancreatic function and intestinal maturation in the neonate. Dr. Young also participates in research focused on providing breastfeeding support for mothers with insulin resistance.CredentialsEducation2005BA | Colgate UniversityMolecular Biology2011PhD | Cornell UniversityNutritional SciencesPost-doctoral Training & Residency2011 - 2014Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO. Research Mentor: Dr. Nancy Krebs, MD, MS.Awards2015Invited Symposium SpeakerSponsor: American Society of Nutrition annual meeting at Experimental BioLocation: Boston2014 - 2015Recipient of F32 Award, proposal "Differences in Breastmilk Composition and Infant Growth between Healthy and Overweight MothersSponsor: NICHD2014Travel Award - presentation at Bi-annual meetingSponsor: International Society of Research in Human Milk and Lactation2013 - 2014Women's Health Research Faculty Development AwardSponsor: University of Colorado Center for Women's Health ResearchLocation: University of Colorado2013 - 2014Child and Maternal Health Pilot AwardSponsor: Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences InstituteLocation: Colorado2012 - 2014Thrasher Research Fund Early Investigator Award2011 - PresentNational Institutes of Health Institutional Training GrantSponsor: National Institutes of Health Institutional Training2011Graduate Student Research Award and travel grant from the Nutritional Sciences CouncilSponsor: American Society for Nutrition2010Emerging Clinical Leaders Award and travel grantSponsor: American Society for Nutrition2009 - 2011National Institutes of Health Institutional Training Grant; "Training in Maternal and Child Nutrition"Sponsor: National Institutes of Health2009 - 2010Graduate Student Travel GrantSponsor: Cornell University, Ithaca, NYLocation: Cornell, NYVIEW ALL expand_morePublicationsJournal Articles11/2019Young BE, Borman LL, Heinrich R, Long J, Pinney S, Westcott J, Krebs NF. "Effect of Pooling Practices and Time Postpartum of Milk Donations on the Energy, Macronutrient, and Zinc Concentrations of Resultant Donor Human Milk Pools." The Journal of pediatrics.. 2019 Nov 0; 214:54-59. Epub 2019 Sep 23. 10/2018Young BE, Levek C, Reynolds RM, Rudolph MC, MacLean P, Hernandez TL, Friedman JE, Krebs NF. "Bioactive components in human milk are differentially associated with rates of lean and fat mass deposition in infants of mothers with normal vs. elevated BMI." Pediatric obesity.. 2018 Oct 0; 13(10):598-606. Epub 2018 Aug 09. 2018Young BE, Palmer C, Reynolds R, Rudolph M, MacLean P, Hernandez T, Friedman J, Krebs N. "Bioactive Components in Human Milk are Differentially Associated with Rates of Lean and Fat Mass Deposition in Infants of Normal Weight versus Overweight Mothers." Pediatric Obesity. 2018; .VIEW ALL PUBLICATIONS