Heather Wopat

Heather hails from the Mississippi gulf coast and worked as a neuroscience nurse practitioner at NYU Medical Center prior to joining GWU. Her research projects as a Graduate Research Assistant have focused on nutrition, exercise, body composition, and chemotherapy tolerance in people with cancer. For her dissertation, she is studying how liver density, dietary intake, and iron regulation are associated with blood cell counts and chemotherapy receipt in women with breast and gynecological cancers.