Dr. He is a Professor at the Department of Health and Kinesiology, University of Texas at San Antonio. She received her MD and MSc from Sun Yat-Sen University of Medical Sciences, China, and her PhD in Nutrition and Health from the University of Hong Kong. She received her post-doctoral training at the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto, Canada. Dr. He has been working in the field of nutrition and health promotion for over 25 years. Her current research program addresses the problems of obesity and its comorbidities using both behavioral and metabolic approaches. She identified behavioral risk factors for obesity in minorities including Hispanics and helped improved nutrition behavior via school- and community-based interventions.