Faculty Profile

Julie Carroll Lumeng, MD
- Professor of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases
- Research Professor, Center for Human Growth and Development
- Professor, Nutritional Sciences
- University of Michigan Center for Human Growth and Development
- 300 North Ingalls Street, 10th Floor
- Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
Julie Lumeng is a developmental and behavioral pediatrician whose research focuses on the prevention of childhood obesity, particularly in low-income groups. She focuses in particular on the potential biological pathways underlying links between psychosocial stress, eating behavior, and obesity in young, high-risk children. Her work also investigates maternal feeding beliefs and practices and how these may relate to childhood obesity risk. She also directs a community based obesity prevention trial based in Head Start settings, as well as examining links between Head Start program characteristics and obesity risk.
- MD, , University of Michigan Medical School, 1997