Minnesota Obesity Center

Adminstrative Core

The Administrative Core serves the following functions:

  1. provides the long term vision for the Center programs,
  2. manages day to day operations,
  3. encourages obesity related research and research collaborations,
  4. oversees and establishes Core use policies,
  5. oversees the Pilot and Feasibility Program,
  6. provides communications system,
  7. coordinates and supports the Education/Enrichment Program, and
  8. solicits and integrate the counsel of Internal and External Scientific Advisory Committees.

 

Director:

Allen S. Levine, Ph.D.

Associate Director:

Charles J. Billington, M.D.

Program Coordinator:

Catherine C. Welch, Ph.D.

 

Executive Committee

  • Allen S. Levine, Ph.D.
    Dean, College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, UMN
  • Charles J. Billington, M.D.
    Department of Medicine, UMN
  • David A. Bernlohr, Ph.D.
    Department of Biochemistry, UMN
  • Scott J. Crow, M.D.
    Department of Psychiatry, UMN
  • Robert W. Jeffery, Ph.D.
    Division of Epidemiology, UMN
  • Michael D. Jensen, M.D.
    Endocrine Research Unit, Mayo Clinic

External Scientific Advisory Committee

  • Fredric B. Kraemer, M.D.
    Endocrinology, Gerontology & Metabolism, Stanford School of Medicine
  • Barry E. Levin, M.D.
    Neurology Service, VA Medical Center, East Orange, NJ
  • Michael G. Perri, Ph.D.
    Department of Clinical & Health Psychology, University of Florida
  • D. Scott Weigle, M.D.
    Division of Endocrinology, University of Washington School of Medicine
  • Denise Wilfley, Ph.D.
    Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine