Monica Jeanne Hubal Associate Professor

Dr. Hubal's main research interests are elucidating what factors make some people more prone to obesity, Type II diabetes, and cardiometabolic disease (especially earlier in life) and identifying ideal intervention strategies to regain health. With dual training backgrounds in exercise physiology and genetic medicine, much of her research involves integrating genetic and molecular data with physiological phenotype information. Dr. Hubal's laboratory utilizes a range of human longitudinal weight loss models from exercise cohorts to bariatric surgery patients, as well as large scale population cohorts to study the effects of genetic variation on cardiometabolic health risks. They also address health disparities in the development of cardiometabolic disease by examining racial differences across multiple organ systems associated with obesity.

Expertise: 

• Chronic Disease
• Exercise Science
• Health Disparities
• Obesity
• Nutrition