About Michael Goran, PhD

Michael is Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, and Program Director for Nutrition and Obesity at The Saban Research Institute. 

Dr Goran is a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester, UK. His research on infant and childhood nutrition has been continuously funded by the NIH for the past 35 years, raising $80m in funding, and publishing over 400 peer-reviewed articles. In 2021 he founded the Southern California Center for Latino Health, a regional initiative focused on developing academic-community solutions to chronic disease disparities in Latino families and funded by a $25m grant from the National Institute for Minority Health Disparities.

He has received numerous scientific awards for research and teaching, including: The Nutrition Society Medal for Research (1996), The Lilly Award for Scientific Achievement from The Obesity Society (2006), the TOPS award for contributions to obesity research from The Obesity Society (2014), and the Rank Prize Lecture in Nutrition (2018).

Michael lives in Silverlake, LA, and likes to play tennis, cook, eat, hike, walk his dog and travel. He is the author of Sugarproof: Protect Your Family from the Hidden Dangers of Excess Sugar with Simple Everyday Fixes .