She is a Presidential Endowed Professor of Community Dentistry and Behavioral Science at the University of Florida.
[2] She is an internationally known researcher specializing in the chemical senses of taste and smell, having discovered that some people are supertasters.
Bartoshuk was the first to discover that burning mouth syndrome, a condition predominantly experienced by postmenopausal women, is caused by damage to the taste buds at the front of the tongue and is not a psychosomatic condition.
Bartoshuk's work at Yale was funded through a series of NIH grants.
[6] She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995.