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Guest Name
Kai-Lin Catherine Jen
Guest Occupation
Professor, Chair, Inventor, Reviewer, Doctor, Nutrition and Weight Loss Researcher, Editor, Writer
Guest Biography

Kai-Lin Catherine Jen, PhD, who is Professor and Chair of the Department of Nutrition and Food Science at Wayne State University and currently has a grant for over 5 million dollars to study “Intervention Procedures for Adherence to Weight Loss Recommendations in Black Adolescents.” She has 104 publications, 31 patents and has applied for several others. She is a reviewer for 12 journals including Physiology and Behavior, International Journal of Obesity, Obesity Research, Nutritional Research, and the Brain Research Bulletin. Dr Jen has held positions on several professional boards including the Chinese Association for the Study of Obesity, North American Association for the Study of Obesity, and the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cancer Survivorship. She has also been interviewed for many media events such as on FoxTV, Channel 2, Detroit: Detroit News; Raleigh News and Observer; Canadian Obesity Network; WWJ AM 950; WGPR FM 107.5; WCHB AM 1200; WZAX 99.3 FM; KNXV Channel 15; WILS 1320 AM; and others.