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University of Southern California

Welcome to the Home Page of

Michael I Goran PhD
Professor of Preventive Medicine and Physiology and Biophysics,

The Dr Robert C and Veronica Atkins Endowed Chair in Childhood Obesity and Diabetes

Director of the USC Center for Transdisciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer (USC C-TREC)

Director of the USC Childhood Obesity Research Center (CORC)

Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California

Please Join us on April 10th 2008 at the USC Health Science Campus for a Symposium:

Childhood Obesity: Genes, Brains and Behavior

(click on the meeting link and enter CORC to get more information and to register for the event)

 

Contact Information

Office: (323) 442-3027
Office Manager: (323) 442-4101;
FAX: (323) 442-4103
E-mail: goran@usc.edu

 

Are you looking for a research position in obesity and diabetes in children?: Please Send me an email

Our Offices and Veronica Atkins Lifestyle Intervention Laboratory are located on the Health Science Campus

of the University of Southern California at:

2250 Alcazar, Room 212
Los Angeles, CA 90033

 

 

NEWS and NEW ADDITIONS

 

New textbook on pediatric obesity published in November 2005; click here for more details and ordering information

March 2006

International Association for the Study of Obesity (IASO) Launches the International Journal of Pediatric Obesity (IJPO): Please consider sending us research papers and reviews in any area of childhood obesity

Fall 2006

Resistance training improves insulin resistance in overweight Hispanic boys (Read the paper; AP news release; AP news video (coming soon)

IMPACT CD-ROM and teachers guide for promoting physical activity in children is now available for purchase through ToucanEd

January 2007

Formal Opening of the Veronica Atkins Lifestyle Intervention Laboratory

(click here for the TV news segment)