Leigh Perreault is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology striving to transform our current clinical approaches to weight management and type 2 diabetes. Dr. Perreault’s overarching research interest lies in understanding the early events that lead to obesity, prediabetes and type 2 diabetes in order to identify novel strategies to restore normal body weight and normoglycemia. To this end, she works as a co-investigator on the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study (DPPOS), collaborates with other NIH-funded investigators, as well as with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).