Michael I. Goran, PhD
Director, Program for Diabetes and Obesity
The Saban Research Institute
Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles
Co-Director, USC Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute
Professor of Pediatrics & Atkins Chair in Childhood Obesity & Diabetes
Keck School of Medicine of USC
Education & Training
1999-2018
Professor of Preventive Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, USC
1997-1999
Professor & Director, Division of Physiology and Metabolism, Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
1998-1999
Core Laboratory Director, Physiology and Metabolism Core Laboratory, General Clinical Research Center, 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.
1994-1997
Associate Professor and Director, Energy Metabolism Research Unit, Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham.
1988-1989
Instructor, Division of Human Nutrition, 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
1987-1989
Research Fellow, Metabolism Unit, Shriners Burns Institute, University of Texas medical Branch, Galveston, Texas
1986-1987
Research Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, University of Bath, UK
1982-1983
Research Assistant, Department of Pharmacology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
1983-1986
PhD, Department of Biochemistry & Medical Research Council Trauma Unit, University of Manchester, UK. (Title of PhD thesis: Metabolic responses to chronic endotoxin infusion in the rat).
1979-1982
BSc (Upper second class honours) Biochemistry, University of Manchester, UK
1992-1993
Named New Investigator, Sims Obesity/Nutrition Research Center.
1992-1993
Director, Clinical Physiology Facility, General Clinical Research Center, and, Sims Obesity/Nutrition Research Center, University of Vermont.
1990-1993
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405.