Linda Barbour, MD, MSPH, FACP Professor of Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology Divisions of Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Diabetes and Maternal-Fetal Medicine Co-Director Colorado Program for Nutrition and Healthy Development Director OB Diabetes and Co-Director High Risk OB Clinics University of Colorado School of Medicine Lynn Barbour is a Professor in Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes with a joint appointment in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology with special expertise and research interests in metabolic diseases in pregnancy and a member of the CCTSI Child and Maternal Health Advisory Board. She has a Master’s of Science in Public Health and chaired the Guidelines on the Management of Gestational Diabetes (GDM) for the state of Colorado. She is also the new Chair for the ADA Scientific Advisory Planning Committee for Pregnancy and Reproductive Health. Her research interests and expertise are in maternal metabolism, particularly obesity and GDM. She has developed a strong national reputation in the field of maternal obesity and nutritional fetal metabolic programming having garnered an individual NIH RO1, an R21, and R56 and co-mentored a number of MD, Ph.D., and Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM) and Pediatrics trainees. She is the Director of the Obstetric Diabetes Clinic at University Hospital and supervises the care of all providers in the management of pregnant women with diabetes. She has given multiple webinars sponsored by the CDC and Departments of Public Health in various states on obesity in pregnancy and gestational weight gain. The focus of her research is determining how the intrauterine metabolic environment in women with diabetes and obesity may program offspring to be at risk for pediatric obesity and metabolic syndrome. She serves as a peer reviewer for grant applications for the NIH, is Co-Editor of a textbook, has authored multiple original manuscripts, reviews, and textbook chapters and has given numerous national and international talks on obesity and diabetes in pregnancy. As Co-Director of the Colorado Program in Nutrition and Healthy Development, she supports translational and clinical research from young investigators in Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Medicine, and Public Health to promote nutritional and interventional strategies in obese and diabetic pregnancies to improve maternal and infant outcomes and long term risk of metabolic disease. In the last 5 years she has successfully co-mentored and helped to secure grant funding for a Pediatric Gastroenterologist researching the origins of pediatric Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD), a Pediatric Nutrition postdoc examining how breast milk composition effects postnatal fat development, a Pediatric Geneticist who is using metabolomics to understand metabolic signatures from offspring of obese diabetic mothers, a Pediatrics post-doc who is studying how the maternal and infant microbiome relate to metabolic risk and adiposity, a Pediatric Nutrition postdoc who is studying the adipogenic potential of cord blood mesenchymal stem cells from offspring of obese and GDM women, a MD/MPH General Internal Medicine junior faculty BIRWCH awardee who is examining mobile application strategies to facilitate postpartum weight loss, and an Epidemiology pre-doc examining maternal dietary composition and infant adiposity, all of whom have successfully competed for funding. Most recently, a RN/PhD investigator for whom she has been the primary mentor of for the last 10 years, successfully received NIDDK R01 funding for a RCT on diet interventions in GDM women. She is very pleased to serve as a research mentor for the Pediatric Nutrition T-32 and highly support this training mechanism which cultivates the development of highly promising junior investigators in maternal and infant nutrition toward the achievement of independent funding.