Deana Ferreri, Ph.D.

Dr. Ferreri earned her Ph.D. in Cardiovascular Sciences in 2008 from Albany Medical College.  Her research on endothelial cell-cell adhesion has been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and she has written a chapter on endothelial cell-cell junctions in a graduate textbook.  Dr. Ferreri has taught undergraduate biology courses, graduate cardiovascular physiology lectures, and medical student cardiovascular and respiratory physiology labs; she received the Leonard Procita Prize for Excellence in Teaching from Albany Medical College in 2007.  As a scientist, Dr. Ferreri embraced Dr. Fuhrman’s dietary recommendations as the best practical application of the collective current knowledge in nutrition science.  Now, as a part of Dr. Fuhrman’s research team, she continues to study nutrition and works to translate the latest nutritional research into information that can be put into practice in the kitchen.