Kurt Hong, MD, PhD

Dr. Hong is dual board-certified in internal medicine and clinical nutrition. He specializes in comprehensive approach to managing patients with obesity, metabolic diseases, and other nutrition-related disorders. Dr. Hong is committed to improving outcomes for patients through clinical and translational research. Current interests include study of macro and micro-nutrients affecting energy metabolism, impact of lifestyle intervention on healthcare utilization, nutrition support for aging, and innovative use computational phenotyping and machine learning for management of chronic diseases.

Dr. Hong is the founding director of Center for Clinical Nutrition and currently holds joint faculty appointments at USC Keck School of Medicine and USC Davis School of Gerontology. Dr. Hong received his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School in 1999. He completed his Internal Medicine training at Scripps Clinic and subsequent fellowship training in Clinical Nutrition at University of California, Los Angeles. He also received his Ph.D. degree (Cellular and Molecular Pathology) and research training in stem cell biology from UCLA. Dr. Hong is a reviewer for multiple medical journals, serves on committees of leading scientific organizations, and frequently invited to speak at hospitals and national conferences.

• University of California, Los Angeles: Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1994
• Harvard University Commonwealth Fund: Fellowship in Neuroscience Research, 1996
• Walter J. McKinley Prize for Research and Clinical Investigation, 1996
• Massachusetts Medical Society: Regents Scholarship, 1999
• David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA: Soloman Scholar, 2005
• UCLA Department of Medicine: Research Day Award, 2005
• Prostate Cancer Foundation: Young Investigator Award, 2008

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