معرفی
Dr. Shan Luo is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Southern California (USC) School of Medicine, specializing in obesity research, neuroimaging, and developmental health. Her work bridges clinical medicine, behavioral neuroscience, and metabolic regulation, focusing on maternal-child health interactions and dietary impacts on brain function.
- Key Research Areas: Obesity, Pediatric Neuroscience, Gestational Diabetes, Dietary Sugar Effects, Functional MRI
- Awards:
- Journal of Obesity: Top Five Winning Paper (2024)
- AFMR: Young Investigator Award (2024)
- NIH NIDDK Career Development Award (2018-2022)
- Publications: 15+ peer-reviewed articles analyzing obesity's neural correlates, prenatal programming, and metabolic neuroscience.
Her research explores how maternal obesity and gestational diabetes alter children's brain development, influencing appetite regulation and obesity risk. She investigates the neurocognitive impacts of dietary sugars, artificial sweeteners, and physical activity in pediatric populations using advanced neuroimaging techniques.
Dr. Luo's scientific contributions include groundbreaking studies on hippocampal alterations in children exposed to gestational diabetes, reward processing differences between sucrose and sucralose, and socioeconomic factors modulating breastfeeding's neurodevelopmental benefits. Her work informs interventions for childhood obesity prevention.
