| |  | | Michael I. Goran
| TREC Director, Core Director (A), Principle Investigator: SANO-LA
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Dr. Goran is associate director of the Institute for Prevention Research at USC and Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Physiology and Biophysics
in the Keck School of Medicine. He is also the Dr. Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Chair in Childhood Obesity and Diabetes. His research focuses on the etiology and
prevention of obesity and Type 2 diabetes in children. Dr. Goran received his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester, UK prior to postdoctoral training in the US.
He previously served on the faculty of Medicine at the University of Vermont, and the department of Nutrition Sciences at UAB prior to coming to USC in 1999.
Currently, Dr Goran serves as the principal investigator of several National Institutes of Health grants and is Director of the USC center for Transdisciplinary
Research on Energetics and Cancer (USC C-TREC), a new $12 million grant just awarded from NCI. His work focuses on understanding the metabolic factors linking
obesity to increased disease risk during growth and development and using this information as a basis for developing new behavioral and community approaches for
prevention and risk reduction. He is also especially interested in ethnic disparities in obesity and obesity related diseases.
Dr. Goran has published almost 200 professional articles. He was the developer and executive producer of the IMPACT CD-ROM, an interactive computer game promoting
physical activity in children and editor of the "Handbook of Pediatric Obesity", published in 2006. He is currently heading the USC initiative on obesity to bring
together faculty from across all disciplines and campuses including Children's Hospital of Los Angeles.
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