Cindy Anderson is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Dakota College of Nursing. She received a B. S. N. from Salem State College in Massachusetts, a M.S. in Parent-Child Nursing and Ph.D. in physiology from the University of North Dakota. Dr. Anderson is board certified as a women's health nurse practitioner. The focus of her research is future cardiovascular consequences in mothers and their children after hypertension during pregnancy. Dr. Anderson investigates how changes in nutrition during pregnancy can influence the maternal development of preeclampsia and how the maternal nutritional environment can influence the developing fetus, leading to future cardiovascular disease. Cindy Anderson has been recognized for her teaching excellence as a faculty member at the University of North Dakota. She was selected as the 2005 American Nurse Foundation/Midwest Nursing Research Society Scholar and most recently received the New Faculty Scholar Award from the University of North Dakota and the 2008 Harriet Werley New Investigator Award from the Midwest Nursing Research Society. Her most recent publications are in the Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing, and the Journal of Nutrition and Biological Research in Nursing.