Obesity Research Center
Saint Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
1111 Amsterdam Ave., Room 1017
New York, New York 10025
Tel: (212) 523-4176
Fax: (212) 523-4830
E-mail:
kz6@columbia.edu
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Certificate, European course: Recent Advances in Image Processing (6/1994)
Edinburgh Language Foundation, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Certificate, English (10/1993 -- 11/1993)
Beijing Institute of Language, Beijing, China
Certificate, English (9/1992 -- 1/1993)
- Zhang, K. (Principal investigator). Improving Energy Cost Estimation of Physical Activity (DK067976 ). NIDDK.
- Zhang, K. (Principal investigator). Intra and Inter-variation of spontaneous physical activity among lean and obese/over weight families; Physical Activity Patterns Changes during the Weight Loss. Pilot and Feasibility Program, New York Obesity Research Center.
- Zhang, K. (Sub investigator). Free-Living Physical Activity and Energy Expenditure (DK062152). NIDDK.
- Member of American Society of Biomechanics
- Member of American Obesity Association
- Member of North American Association for the Study of Obesity
2003 ~ present, Member, Gerson Lehrman Group's Council of Healthcare Advisors.
President of Columbia University Chinese Students and Scholars Association -
the largest foreign students organization in Columbia University.
(www.columbia.edu/cu/cucssa) (11/1998 - 11/1999)
- Sun Y, Zhang K, Gallagher D, Heymsfield SB, Pi-Sunyer FX. Gas Exchange Delay & Total Blood Flowrate Estimation With Hood Indirect Calorimetry & Oxmimetry. Obesity Research, Volume 4, Supplement 1, p46, 1996. [Abstract]
- Tan YX, Nunez C, Sun Y, Zhang K, Wang Z, Heymsfield SB. Medicine & Science in Sports and Exercise, New electrode system for rapid whole-body and segmental bioimpedance assessment, 4:1269-1273, 1997.
- Sun Y, Zhang K, Gallagher D, Heymsfield SB, Pi-Sunyer FX. The Analysis of Human External Mechanical Work with the Columbia Respiratory Chamber Indirect Calorimeter. The FASEB Journal, Volume 11, Number 3, page A372, 1997. [Abstract]
- Nunez C, Zhang K, Gallagher D, Heymsfield SB. Validity of Resting Metabolic Rate Prediction from Body Composition. Presented at the NAASO 1997 Annual Scientific Meeting November 9-13 in the city of Cancun, Mexico. [Abstract]
- Sun Y, Zhang K, Gallagher D, Heymsfield SB, Pi-Sunyer FX. Columbia Respiratory Chamber Indirect Calorimeter: System Calibration - Parameter Estimation. The FASEB Journal, Volume 11, Number 5, page A877. The FASEB Journal, Volume 12, Number 4, page A541, 1998. [Abstract]
- Zhang K, Weir J, Kovera A, Tan YX, Heymsfield SB. Skeletal Muscle Function and Aging: Methodology Issue. The FASEB Journal, Volume 12, Number 5, page A877, 1998. [Abstract]
- Zhang K, Su M, Kovera A, Werner P, Albu A, Pi-Sunyer FX, Boozer CN. A New Way to Examine Sleeping Metabolic Rate. Presented in the annul conference of North American Association for the Study of Obesity (NAASO) at Long Beach, California on October 29, 2000. [Abstract]
- Wang Z, Gallagher D, Heshka S, Zhang K, Boozer CN, Testolin C, Heymsfield SB. Resting Energy Expenditure (REE) Prediction Methods From Body Composition. Faseb Journal Volume 14, number 4, page A525, 2000. [Abstract]
- Reda TK, Kovera A, Fried S, Ashan A, Boozer CN, Zhang K, Pi-Sunyer FX, Albu J. Differential effects of Muscle Lipoprotein Lipase in Lean and Obese women. Faseb Journal Volume 14, number 4, page A565, 2000. [Abstract]
- Zhang K, Su M, Pi-Sunyer FX, Boozer CN. A Newly developed device for assessing daily physical activity (PA) in free-living conditions. Obesity Research, 2001; 9 (Suppl. 3): 99S. [Abstract]
- Wang Z, Heshka S, Zhang K, Boozer CN, Heymsfield SB. Resting Energy Expenditure: Systematic Organization and Critique of Prediction Methods. Obesity Research, 2001; 9:331-336.
- Zhang K. Measurement and Assessment of Human Energy Expenditure and Locomotion. PhD dissertation, Columbia University, May 2002.
- Zhang K, Sun M, Werner P, Kovera AJ, Albu J, Pi-Sunyer FX, Boozer CN. Sleeping metabolic rate in relation to body mass index and body composition. Int J Obes 2002; 3:376-383.
- Zhang K, Werner P, Sun M, Pi-Sunyer FX, Boozer CN. Measurement of Daily Physical Activity. Obesity Research 2003; 11:33-40.
- Zhang K, Pi-Sunyer FX, Boozer CN. Energy Expenditure Validation of a New Device to Measure Physical Activity. The FASEB Journal 2003; 17(4):A276. [Abstract]
- Zhang K, M. Sun, F. X. Pi-Sunyer, C. N. Boozer. Estimated Energy Expenditure of Physical Activity Confirmed by Force Platform. Obesity Research, 2003; 9 (Suppl):A98. [Abstract]
- Berk E., , Albert Kovera, Kuan Zhang, Carol Boozer, Marsha Wainright, F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer, Jeanine Albu. Systemic fat oxidation inflexibility in African American vs. Caucasian obese women. Presented at the American Diabetes Association's 63rd Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions in June 2003 in New Orleans.
- Zhang K, F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer, and Carol N. Boozer. Improving Energy Expenditure Estimation for Physical Activity. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc. 36 (5):883-889, 2004.
- Zhang K, K. Robinson and C.N. Boozer. Low Levels of Physical Activity in Adolescent Girls. Obesity Research, 2004; 12(Supplement): A123.
- Berk E, M. Wainwrite, A. Kovera, K. Zhang, C.N. Boozer, F.X. Pi-Sunyer, J. Albu. Insulin Resistance and Metabolic Inflexibility in African American Pre-Menopausal Women. Obesity Research, 2004; 12(Supplement): A136.
- Zhang K, Sun M, Lester DK, Pi-Sunyer FX, Boozer CN, Longman RW. Assessment of human locomotion by using an insole measurement system and artificial neural networks. Journal of Biomechanics, 2005 in press.
- Gaba A.M., K. Zhang , K.S. Marder, C.B Moskowitz, P. Werner C.N. Boozer. Energy Balance in Early-Stage Huntington's Disease. Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2005, accepted.