Michael I Goran, PhD
Professor of Preventive Medicine & Physiology and Biophysics
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California

Education & Training

1979-1982: BSc (Upper second class honours) Biochemistry, University of Manchester, UK

1983-1986: PhD, Department of Biochemistry & Medical Research Council Trauma Unit, University of Manchester, UK. Goran MI. (Title of PhD thesis: Metabolic responses to chronic endotoxin infusion in the rat.

1982-1983: Research Assistant, Department of Pharmacology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

1986-1987: Research Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, University of Bath, UK

1987-1989: Research Fellow, Metabolism Unit, Shriners Burns Institute, University of Texas medical Branch, Galveston, Texas

1989-1990: Research Fellow, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont

1990-1993: Research Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405.

1992-1993 Director, Clinical Physiology Facility, General Clinical Research Center, and, Sims Obesity/Nutrition Research Center, University of Vermont.

1992-1993: Named New Investigator, Sims Obesity/Nutrition Research Center.

1994-1997: Associate Professor and Director, Energy Metabolism Research Unit, Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

1996-1999: Secondary faculty appointments in Department of Pediatrics and Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

1998-1999: Core Laboratory Director, Physiology and Metabolism Core Laboratory, General Clinical Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

1997-1999: Professor & Director, Division of Physiology and Metabolism, Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham.