Betsy Lozoff, M.D.
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Professor of Pediatrics, University of Michigan Medical School
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Research Professor, Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan
Betsy Lozoff, M.D., is Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Michigan Medical School and former Director of the Center for Human Growth and Development at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on iron deficiency anemia and infant behavior, including the effects of iron deficiency on the developing brain, primarily among children living in developing countries but also those growing up in poverty in the United States.
She has served on several review panels for the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, as well as on the Executive Council of the Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. She was a member of the Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development for the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences. She is a member of the National Academies Board on Children, Youth, and Families.
She earned an M.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
