Weds, March 15 @ 6-7:30pm CT via Zoom
Open to the Public!

Dr. Kristina Pettiston, from UW Health will join the Prostate Support group for an in-depth look at Nutrition and Prostate Health. She will examine the before, during and after implication of nutrition, and prostate health.

• How do nutritional factors affect the prostate?
• Which foods or dietary patterns are most prostate-healthy
• Are there foods that can delay the progression of prostate cancer?

Join us for great discussion, bring a friend, and your questions.

About Dr. Kristina Penniston:

Dr. Kristina Penniston is a scientist and registered dietitian nutritionist in Madison, Wisconsin.

She is the urology nutritionist at UW Health University Hospital and Clinics, providing nutrition therapy for patients with multiple urologic and genitourinary conditions. Dr. Penniston earned a PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She completed a dietetic internship at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics and is a certified dietitian member and fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Clinical and research experience. Dr. Penniston has provided clinical nutrition services to patients with kidney stones and other urologic diseases, such as urologic cancer and non- malignant urologic conditions, for 22 years. Dr. Penniston's research in the Department of Urology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health focuses on prevention of kidney stones. Specifically, her research aims to develop and test dietary interventions that prevent or ameliorate recurrent stones; promote patients' self-efficacy in managing their stone disease; and understand and improve patients’ health-related quality of life. Dr. Penniston has developed a porcine model of dietary-induced calcium oxalate urolithiasis as a platform for studying dietary influences on stone formation. She also was the primary developer of the Wisconsin Stone Quality of Life questionnaire (WISQOL), a stone- specific instrument to assess patients' health-related quality of life. Dr. Penniston is the PI of the North American Stone Quality of Life consortium, a clinical research collaboration comprised of 17 urology centers in the U.S. and Canada, the primary aims of which are to test and validate the WISQOL and understand how kidney stones affects patients’ health- related quality of life.

Professional accomplishments. Dr. Penniston is a fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She is a member of the American Urological Association (AUA) and a former AUA research scholar (2008-2010). She served as co-faculty for a course on nutritional prevention of kidney stones that was consecutively renewed from 2011 through 2019. She is a member of the Endourological Society. She is a member of the Research on Calculus Kinetics (ROCK) Society (since 2008) and was elected as secretary-treasurer, a 4-year position, in 2018. She has co-edited three books (Diagnosois and Management of Pediatric Nephrolithiasis, with Neil Paloian, MD; ©2021; Nutrition Therapy for Urolithiasis, with Patrick Lowry, MD; ©2018; Pocket Guide to Kidney Stone Prevention, with Manoj Monga, MD, and David Goldfarb; MD, ©2015). Dr. Penniston publishes regularly in urologic and nutrition journals, presents research at several meetings annually, and serves as a reviewer for more than a dozen urology and nutrition journals. She has been visiting professor at several institutions (including Penn State, Cleveland Clinic, University of Texas San Antonio, Cedars Sinai, University of Kentucky) and a plenary speaker multiple times at meetings of both the AUA and the World Congress of Endourology. She has been invited to speak about nutritional prevention of kidney stones and urologic cancers at multiple international venues including Chile, South Africa, the UK, France, Mexico, and India.

Zoom access is provided by our Technology Sponsors, the Wisconsin Cancer Collaborative and UW Carbone Cancer Center.