Degrees:
Nutritional Sciences & Dietetics: B.S. 1971 Univ. of Illinois
Community Health: M.S. 1976 Univ. of Illinois
Nutritional Sciences: Ph.D. 1985 Univ. of Illinois

Research Interests:
Reducing dietary risk for chronic diseases, by use of behavioral models to improve food choice for fruit, vegetables and low fat dairy foods.  Recent and current projects have focused on the following populations: Limited income; Young adults; Middle school girls; Mothers of young children; African American men.
Supervises
Nutrition Assessment Laboratories. 
Current Research:

Courses: 

HNF 375 Community Nutrition

HNF 475 Community Nutrition Applications

HNF 843 Nutrition Assessment

HNF 891 Facilitating Change Theory Practice

Undergraduate Advising:  Dietetics

Graduate Advising:  Human Nutrition- focus on Community Nutrition. 

REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Omar MA, Coleman G, Hoer SL.   Healthy eating for rural low-income toddlers: caregiver’s perceptions.   Journal of Community Health Nursing.  2001;18(2):93-106.   

Murphy A, Hoerr SL, Youatt J.  School nutrition education and food service: a statewide assessment of parents= opinions. The Journal of Child Nutrition and Management, 2000, Issue 1.

 Golzynski DL, Kallen DJ, Hoerr SL.  Escaping the stigma, is there hope for obese adolescents?   Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 1999;38:451-467.

Petersmarck KA, Teitelbaum HS, Bond JT, Hoerr SM, Sowers MF.  Effect of weight cycling on blood lipids and blood pressure in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial population.  International Journal of Obesity.  1999;23(12):1-10.

Walton J, Hoerr SL, Heine L, Frost S, Roisen R, Berkimer M.  Physical activity and stages of change in fifth and sixth graders.  Journal of School Health.   1999;69(7):285-289.

Hoerr SL.  Risky dietary behaviors in adolescents--implications for pregnancy from a human ecological perspective.  Family Science Review 1998; 11(3):205-219.

Mohd Shariff Z, Doong JY, Hoerr SL, Bond JT.  Growth status of low income preschool children and the relation of birth weight to short stature and overweight.   Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences 1998;90(2):12-19.

Tsai CY, Hoerr SL, Song WO.  Dieting behavior in Asian college women attending a U.S. university.  Journal of American College Health.   1998;46:163-168.

Huang YL, Hoerr SL, Song WO.  Breakfast is the lowest fat meal for young adult women.  Journal of Nutrition Education 1997;29:184-188.

Georgiou CC, Betts N, Hoerr SL, Peters P, Stewart B, Voichick.  Among young adults, college students and college graduates make more healthful food choices than non-students. Journal American Dietetic Association. 1997;97:754-759.

Seymour M, Hoerr SL.  Inappropriate dieting behaviors and related lifestyle factors in young adults, are college students different?  Journal of Nutrition Education.  1997;29(1):21-26.

Yagalla M, Hoerr S, Song W, Enas E, Garg A.  Relationship of diet, abdominal obesity and physical activity to plasma lipid lipoprotein in Asian Indian  physicians residing in the U.S. Journal of American Dietetic Association 1996;96:257-261.

Schuette LK, Song WO, Hoerr SL.  Quantitative use of the food guide pyramid to evaluate dietary intake of college students.  Journal of American Dietetic Association 1996;96:453-457.

Chung SJ, Hoerr SL, Song WO, Shih C, Lentner D, Vanderbelt M, Lauderdale C, Huang YL, Koerner L. The Healthy Eating Index: design and implications. Journal of the American Dietetics Association 1996;96:751-752.  

Peters PK, Amos RA, Hoerr SL, Koszweski W, Huang Y, Betts N.  Questionable dieting behaviors are used by young adults regardless of sex or student status.   Journal of American Dietetic Association 1996;96:709-711. 

Song WO, Schuette LK, Huang YL, Hoerr SL.  Food group intake patterns in relation to nutritional adequacy of young adults.  Nutrition Research 1996;16:1507-1519. 

Betts N, Baranowski T, Hoerr SL.  Recommendations for planning and reporting focus group research.  Journal of Nutrition Education 1996;28:279-281.