Carol Boozer, D.Sc.

CURRICULUM VITAE:

Dr. Boozer is a nutrition scientist with primary research interests in the area of energy metabolism. She conducts both basic and clinical studies to explore the role of high fat diets and substrate oxidation in the etiology of obesity. Dr. Boozer serves as Director of the Energy Metabolism Core and much of her research involves indirect calorimetry studies utilizing the human respiratory chamber or a small-animal indirect calorimeter in her own laboratory. She uses these systems to study 24-hour substrate oxidation and energy expenditure components and to assess factors that affect them. She is also interested in the interaction of genetic susceptibility to obesity with dietary macronutrient composition and physical activity. To pursue this study, she has established a colony of Diet Resistant and Diet Susceptible rats, selectively bred for these traits.

Dr. Boozer received her doctorate from Harvard (School of Public Health) where she studied the role of hypersecretion of insulin in the obesity of the ob/ob mouse with Dr. Jean Mayer. Her pre-doctoral training in nutrition include a B.Sc. (Michigan State University), a M.N.S. (Cornell) and M.Sc. (Harvard). After receiving her doctorate, she taught at Princeton University as an Instructor, in the Biology Department. She also worked as a systems nutritionist for a computer software company prior to taking a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical nutrition with Dr. Richard Atkinson at the V.A. Medical Center, Hampton, VA and Eastern Virginia Medial School (Norfolk, VA). In 1989, she was appointed Assistant Professor at EVMS. In 1994, she joined the NY Obesity Research Center with an appointment to Assistant Professor of Nutrition at the Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University. Her research is supported primarily by NIH (NIDDK) grants with some secondary funding from industry. She is active is several professional organizations and is currently Membership Chair of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Obesity Research Center: Babcock 1029
St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center
1111 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10025
Tel:(212) 523-4174 (office); -4176 (lab)
Fax:(212) 523-4830
E-mail: cnb7@columbia.edu

CORE LAB: Energy Metabolism

Human Respiratory Chamber: (212) 523-4994
Energy Metabolism Laboratory: (212) 523-4188

 
 
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