Awards & Recognition

Dr. Jasmin Alves Wins Award at DORI Symposium 2022

Congratulations to Dr. Jasmin Alves for winning Third place for her trainee speaking presentation on GDM exposure and autistic traits.

Dr. Page and Alexandra Yunker Present at 2020 DZD Research School

On October 1, 2020 Dr. Page gave an invited lecture, and trainee Alexandra Yunker presented a poster talk, on the brain regulation of nutrition at the virtual Deutsches Zentrum für Diabetesforschung (DZD) Diabetes Research School.

Pau Gasol Presents at DORI 2020 Symposium

Pau Gasol, Olympian and NBA All-Star, spoke about his work with the Gasol Foundation to combat childhood obesity at the 2020 USC DORI Symposium. Dr. Katie Page (DORI Co-Director) is pictured here with Pau Gasol and Dr. Tom Buchanan, Dr. Michael Goran, and Dr. Scott Kanoski.

Congratulations Elio!

Elio Morales, USC Keck School of Medicine student, presented his poster regarding 'Sleep and insulin sensitivity within children exposed to GDM in-utero' at the 2019 Medical Student Research Forum. He is pictured here with his Page Lab mentors and other team members.

Congratulations Brandon!

Brandon Ge, undergraduate research assistant in the Page Lab, presented a Presidential poster at The Endocrine Society Meeting in Chicago during March 2018.

Kathleen Page was awarded a prestigious Diabetes Research Accelerator Award

Kathleen Page was awarded a prestigious Diabetes Research Accelerator Award from the American Diabetes Association. The American Diabetes Association’s bold initiative, Pathway to Stop Diabetes, aims to accelerate transformative research approaches to stop diabetes. Read Diabetes Research Accelerator Award Grant Recipients and the Press Release.

Congratulations Hilary!

Hilary Dorton, 2nd year Neuroscience graduate student in the Page Lab, was awarded 1st place for her poster titled, Effects of chronic dietary sugar intake on brain response to food cues: ROI Analysis. Hilary presented at the USC Diabetes & Obesity Research Institute (DORI) Annual Research Symposium held this past February, 2016.

Graduation 2024!

Congratulations to lab member Sandhya Prathap on officially completing her program at Dornsife's 2024 Hooding Ceremony!

Alexandra Yunker Wins 1st Place Poster at DORI Symposium

Congratulations to Alexandra Yunker! She placed 1st at the 2020 USC Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute (DORI) Symposium for her poster titled "Effects of Sweet Taste Preference on Glucose-Linked Hypothalamic Activation".

Shan Luo, PhD Awarded DORI Pilot Grant

Congratulations to Shan Luo, PhD for winning a DORI Pilot Grant for her proposal titled "Neural correlates of impulsivity in obese and lean children exposed to maternal obesity".

Nate Overholtzer Places 3rd at DORI Symposium

Congratulations to our Research Assistant, Nate! He placed 3rd at the 2019 USC Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute Symposium for his poster titled "The Influence of Inhibitory Control on Dietary Restraint".

Christina Ramsey awarded ADA Fellowship

Christina has received an ADA Fellowship Award for work on our study Neural Mechanisms in Maternal-Fetal Programming for Obesity and Diabetes! Congratulations, Christina!

Kristen Hardy, Undergraduate Research Assistant awarded Merit Scholarship

Congratulations Kristen on being awarded a Merit Scholarship for Medical School at West Virginia School of Medicine. We are very excited for your journey to becoming a doctor!

Dr. Page awarded a new National Institute of Health (NIH) R01 Research Grant

Dr. Page and colleagues have been awarded a $2,700,000 grant to support a 5-year study titled, Neural Mechanisms for Appetitive Responses to High Reward Foods. The proposed studies implement a combination of neuroimaging, physiological and behavioral techniques that are being used in novel ways in humans to gain a more complete understanding of how sugars affect neuroendocrine pathways and eating behavior, and how alterations in these pathways may contribute to the development of

Sabrina Jones, PhD Awarded 3rd Place Oral Presentation at DORI Symposium

Congratulations to our post-doctoral fellow, Sabrina Jones! She placed 3rd at the 2020 USC Diabetes and Obesity Research Institute (DORI) Symposium for her oral presentation titled "The Role of the Hippocampus in Human Energy Regulation: Assessing Environmental Impacts on Hippocampal Functioning".

Happy Graduation!

A big congratulations to some of our graduating lab members! Pictured here is the Page Lab's (first!) graduating Neuroscience PhD candidate, Hilary Dorton, with our Research Assistant, Jada Hislop, who received her Bachelor's of Science from USC.

Nate Overholtzer presents at WMRC

Nate was invited to give an oral presentation at the 2019 Western Medical Research Conference in Carmel, California regarding his work on the effects of dietary added sugars and cognition in children. Congratulations, Nate!

Congratulations Jada!

Jada Hislop, undergraduate research assistant in the Page Lab, presented her poster for the SPIDOR summer research fellowship in August 2018.

Congratulations Brandon!

Brandon Ge, research assistant in the Page Lab, was awarded 1st place for his poster titled, Endocrine, Neural and Behavioral Responses to Acute Non-caloric Sweetener Ingestion. Brandon presented at the USC Diabetes & Obesity Research Institute (DORI) Annual Research Symposium held this past February, 2018.

Kathleen Page receives the American Heart Association’s Mark Bieber Award

Kathleen Page receives the American Heart Association's Mark Bieber Award for Outstanding Research in Nutrition at the AHA Epi/NPAM Scientific Sessions in San Francisco on March 20, 2014. This award honors the memory of Dr. Mark Bieber, one of the founding members of the AHA Industry Nutrition Advisory Panel, for his significant contributions to the field of nutritional science. The award is designed to recognize an early career investigator for outstanding nutrition-related research.