Robert H. Lustig, MD, MSL

• Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, University of San Francisto School of Medicine

• Director Emeritus, UCSF Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health (WATCH) program

• President and Co-Founder, Institute for Responsible Nutrition

Dr. Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist, with basic and clinical training relative to hypothalamic development, anatomy and function. He has has become a leading public health authority on the impact sugar has on fueling the diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome epidemics, and on addressing changes in the food environment to reverse these chronic diseases.

He received his MD from Cornell University Medical College. He completed his pediatric residency at St. Louis Children's Hospital and his clinical fellowship in pediatric endocrinology at UCSF. He then worked at Rockefeller University as a post-doctoral fellow and research associate in neuroendocrinology. Before returning to UCSF, he was a faculty member at the University of Tennessee, Memphis, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and worked at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis.

He has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and reviews. He provides endocrinologic support to several protocols of the Children’s Oncology Group. He is the former Chairman of the Ad hoc Obesity Task Force of the Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrine Society, a member of the Pediatric Obesity Practice Guidelines Subcommittee of The Endocrine Society, a member of the Obesity Task Force of the Endocrine Society, a member of the Pediatric Obesity Devices Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a member of the Bay Area Board of Directors of the American Heart Association, and a member of the Steering Committee of Health Foods, Healthy Kids of the Culinary Institute of America. He also consults for several childhood obesity advocacy groups.

Clinical Interests

Childhood obesity, metabolic syndrome.

Education & Training

Medical School:
Cornell University Medical College

Residency:
Pediatrics- St. Louis Children’s Hospital

Fellowship:
Pediatric Endocronology- University of California, San Francisco Medical Center

Fellowship:
Postdoctoral fellowship in neuroendocrinology - Rockefeller University.

Accomplishments

Certification:
American Board of Pediatrics – Pediatrics
American Board of Pediatrics – Pediatric Endocrinology