Bridget Young PhD, CLC

Dr. Bridget E. Young studied Maternal and Child Nutrition at Cornell University where she received her PhD. She then pursued a postdoctoral fellowship in Pediatric Nutrition at the University of Colorado. She joined the faculty at the University of Rochester in 2018 and is the Director of Research for the Division of Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine.

Bridget Young's research interests are in early infant nutrition. She studies the impact of obesity and insulin resistance on breast milk composition, and resultant programming effects in the infant. She particularly focuses on the effect of oral insulin in human milk on infant pancreatic function and intestinal maturation in the neonate. Dr. Young also studies how variation in infant formula ingredients impact long-term outcomes in the infant.