Julia M.w. Wong RD, PhD

Julia M.W. Wong, RD PhD, is currently an Instructor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and a Research Associate and Metabolic Nutrition Scientist at the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center, Boston Children’s Hospital. She is supported by a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) RCT Mentored Training Grant. Dr. Wong was trained as a Registered Dietitian, and completed her PhD in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto, and a postdoctoral fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital.

She has authored or co-authored 25 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, dealing with the influence of various dietary components and factors upon glycemic response and control, inflammation markers, hematologic risk factors for coronary heart disease, serum lipid profiles generally, blood pressure, body weight, and other health status indicators. She is the lead author of four such articles about the influence of diet/gut microbiota interactions upon cardiometabolic outcomes, or the influence of colonic fermentation upon lipid metabolism.