Kaitlyn is a current doctoral candidate in the Dr. Gail Cresci laboratory at the Department of Inflammation and Immunity at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute and Case Western Reserve University. She was previously a clinical dietitian at Mercy Health St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Youngstown, Ohio. She uses her previous clinical experience to inform her graduate work investigating mechanisms by which nutrition can attenuate alcohol-induced gut dysfunction and modulate gut-muscle crosstalk.