MCOB Participating Faculty Members
Approved maternal and child obesity Obesity IDOT training grant Participating Faculty Members
| Name/Degree(s) | Rank | Primary (& Secondary) Appointment(s) | Research Interest |
| Adair, Linda/PhD | Professor | Nutrition (Carolina Population Center) | Maternal and child nutrition, how populations respond to nutritional stresses, early child growth patterns |
| Ammerman, Alice/PhD | Professor | Nutrition | Dietary intervention approaches for cardiovascular disease, risk reduction in underserved populations |
| Beck, Melinda/PhD | Professor | Nutrition | Nutritional biochemistry, virology and immune function |
| Bentley, Peggy/PhD | Professor | Nutrition (Carolina Population Center) | Anthropology: Eating and physical activity behaviors; Infant and child obesity |
| Berry, Dianne/PhD | Assistant Professor | Nursing | Weight management and prevention of Type 2 diabetes in black, Latino, and white children and parents |
| Brown, Jane/PhD | Professor | Journalism and Mass Communication (Carolina Population Center) | Mass media affects on health behavior |
| Bulik, Cynthia/PhD | Professor | Psychiatry | Genetics of eating disorders; Constitutional thinness |
| Campbell, Marci/PhD | Professor | Nutrition | Multi-level community interventions to promote healthy eating and physical activity |
| Coleman, Rosalind/MD | Professor | Nutrition | Lipid metabolism, triacylglycerol biosynthesis and its critical regulated pathways in liver and adipocytes |
| Evenson, Kelly/PhD | Research Associate Professor | Epidemiology | Physical activity epidemiology |
| Gordon-Larsen, Penny/PhD | Assistant Professor | Nutrition (Carolina Population Center) | Human nutrition; Physical environment in shaping obesity and obesity related behaviors |
| Guilkey, David/PhD | Professor | Economics (Carolina Population Center) | Econometrics; Extensive dietary, physical activity, and nutritional status |
| Harris, Kathleen/PhD | Professor | Sociology (Carolina Population Center | Contextual factors and the family; Poverty; Social Policy |
| Hodges, Eric/PhD |
Assistant Professor |
School of Nursing |
Early childhood obesity prevention, parenting, and familial developmental transitions from infancy through early childhood |
| Kotch, Jonathon/MD | Professor | Maternal and Child Health | Training child care health consultants to work with providers to improve children's diets and increase physical activity in out-of-home child care |
| Linnan, Laura/PhD | Assistant Professor | Health Behavior and Health Education | Multi-component interventions to increase awareness and change behaviors |
| Lund, Kay/PhD | Professor | Cell & Molecular Physiology (Nutrition) | Growth factors gastrointestinal growth, molecular biology, signal transduction, aging and memory loss |
| Mayer-Davis, Beth/PhD |
Professor |
Nutrition |
Diabetes, including children (type 1 & 2) and adults; epidemiology and interventions targeting prevention and treatment |
| Mohke, Karen/PhD | Assistant Professor | Genetics | Genetics of type 2 diabetes mellitus |
| North, Kari/PhD | Assistant Professor | Epidemiology | Genetic epidemiology; CVD; Diabetes links to obesity |
| Perrin, Eliana/MD | Assistant Professor | Pediatrics | Obesity management and prevention |
| Pomp, Daniel/PhD | Professor | Nutrition (Cell and Molecular Physiology) | Genetic architecture of complex traits, with an emphasis on obesity and body weight regulation |
| Popkin, Barry/PhD | Professor | Nutrition (Carolina Population Center) | Environment, diet, physical activity, and obesity; Nutrition transition |
| Rodriguez, Daniel/PhD | Associate Professor | City and Regional Planning | Urban transportation; Land use policy; Walkability |
| Siega-Riz, Anna Maria/PhD | Associate Professor | Epidemiology and Nutrition (Carolina Population Center) | Maternal obesity determinants; Health and pregnancy outcome consequences |
| Stevens, June/PhD | Professor | Nutrition | Obesity and coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and mortality; Minority health |
| Tate, Deborah/PhD | Assistant Professor | Nutrition (Health Behavior and Health Education) | Behavioral treatments for weight loss and maintenance, with particular emphasis on using technology to enhance or disseminate standard behavioral treatments for more public health application |
| Thompson, Amanda/PhD |
Assistant Professor |
Anthropology |
Early life determinants of body composition and obesity, infant and child feeding, and biological and cultural influences on infant growth and physiology |
| Ward, Dianne/PhD | Professor | Nutrition | Prevention of obesity through multi-component school and community interventions |
