Karen E. PetersonKaren E. Peterson, ScD, is the Stanley M. Garn Collegiate Professor and inaugural Chair of the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, where she also holds joint appointments as Professor of Environmetal Health Sciences and Professor of Global Public Health. She earned her ScD in Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and BA in Foods and Nutrition from the University of Utah. Her research focuses on interactions of toxicants and diet on growth, maturation and cardiometabolic risk across the life course and the evaluation of interventions addressing lifestyle behaviors related to obesity and chronic conditions. Since 2010, she has served as Associate Director of the Michigan Nutrition and Obesity Research Center. She is an Associate Editor of Pediatric Obesity. She teaches courses on physical growth and maturation and on the evaluation of public health nutrition programs. Read More Read Less
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