Overview

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I am a Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, and I serve as the Associate Director of the Colorado Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC). I have a well-funded research program, and I have extensive leadership experience in NIH-funded NORC and DRC P30 programs. At the University of Michigan, I was Director of the Animal Studies Core and was on the T32 Advisory Committee for the DRC, and was Associate Director of the Pilot and Feasibility Program for the NORC. When transitioning my lab to CU-AMC, I joined the internal executive committee’s for both the NORC and DRC. Thus, I have been entrenched in NIH-funded NORC and DRC leadership for the last 8 years. Lastly, I have NIH-funding focused on supporting mentoring and recruitment of minoritized fellows to obesity research.