Lauren Gyllenhammer received a Bachelor of Science in Psychobiology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and is in her first year of the Preventive Medicine/Health Behavior Research Doctoral Program in the Keck School of Medicine. Currently, Lauren's graduate study is funded by USC Provost's Ph.D. Fellowship Program. Lauren is broadly interested in biological mechanisms in health and behavior change and in applying this to work amongst metabolically at-risk overweight children