Dr. Maryanne Perrin is trained as a nutrition scientist, industrial engineer, and registered dietitian. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Nutrition Science at the University of North Carolina Greensboro where her research focuses on providing evidence-based guidelines for the processing, storage, and use of donor human milk. She has led studies to characterize the nutritional composition of donor human milk within the Human Milk Banking Association of North America network, and currently serves as the Principal Investigator on a National Institute of Health funded project to study the composition of donor human milk globally among low-, middle-, and high-income countries.