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Biography:
Dr. Biruete is an Assistant Professor and Registered Dietitian in the Department of Nutrition Science at Purdue University and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Division of Nephrology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. She completed her B.Sc. at Escuela de Dietética y Nutrición in Mexico City, her Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a postdoctoral fellowship in Nephrology at Indiana University School of Medicine. Her broad clinical interest is nutrition in kidney diseases. Dr. Biruete’s research aims to study the effects of nutritional and pharmacological therapies for chronic kidney disease on the gastrointestinal tract and gut microbiome. Additionally, Dr. Biruete is interested in improving outcomes in the Hispanic/Latine community living with chronic kidney disease, primarily through nutritional language and culturally concordant lifestyle interventions.