Experts Guide

Yadav is director of the USF Center for Microbiome Research. He is a leading expert in microbiome, gut health, probiotics and cognition and neurosurgery. His research focuses on the relationship between leaky gut caused by disturbances in the gut microbiome and the risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease and other age-related chronic diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer.

Prescott was a neonatal intensive care bedside nurse and educator for fifteen years before becoming a board-certified Neonatal Nurse Practitioner. While working at INOVA Children’s Hospital, a top 40 ranked, 108 bed, Level IV neonatal intensive care unit, she attended the University of Virginia to obtain her PhD, and then worked at the National Institutes of Health in the Laboratory of Integrative Immunology as a research fellow and then a postdoctoral trainee studying the microbiome and immune response to immunotherapy in the setting of advanced melanoma.