Dr. Kitchin is the patient educator and a researcher at UAB's Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment Clinic at the Kirklin Clinic. She is a weekly contributor on the popular Good Day Alabama morning news program, blogs at The Kitchin Sink and tweets at @DrBethK. She earned her BS in Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics from James Madison University, her MS in Human Nutrition and Foods from Virginia Tech, and her PhD in Health Education and Promotion from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.