Dr. Linda A. Barbour, MD, MSPH, FACP

Dr. Barbour is a Tenured Professor in Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes and Maternal-Fetal Medicine with a Masters’ Degree in Public Health and Director of the University Hospital Diabetes and Endocrine Obstetric Clinic. She has been NIH-funded for >20 years along with her research partner, Dr. Teri Hernandez, and she was awarded the ADA 2018 Norbert Freinkel award for her research, teaching and clinical contributions in diabetes/obesity in pregnancy. She has mentored >25 MD, PhD trainees/junior faculty in OB-Gyn, Neonatology and Endocrinology on the influence of maternal obesity and diabetes on the intrauterine environment and their metabolic effects on infant body composition and later risk for childhood obesity. She served on the Editorial Board for “Diabetes Care”, is Past Chair for the ADA Scientific Planning Committee for Pregnancy and has served on multiple national guideline committees on thyroid disease and diabetes in pregnancy. She is currently serving on the Endocrine Society/European Endocrine Society Guidelines Committee on Diabetes in Pregnancy. She has been named in “Best Doctors in America” for >25 years and authored ~150 publications.
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Dr. Teri Hernandez, PhD, RN

Dr. Teri Hernandez is the Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship in the College of Nursing and a Professor of Nursing and Medicine at the University of Colorado. Over 20 years at CU with her research partner, Dr. Linda Barbour, she has conducted controlled clinical studies in pregnancy focused on nutrition, glucose and lipid metabolism, infant growth, and early life exposures. A cardiac nurse by training, and a Pediatric Nurse Scientist at Children’s Hospital Colorado, she has a dedicated commitment to understanding insulin resistance as both an adaptation and as pathology. She completed her undergraduate training at Northern Illinois University, and Master’s and PhD at the University of Colorado, USA. She is an educator in the Graduate School, is Chair of the Anschutz Medical Campus Perinatal Research Advisory and Facilitation Committee, is an elected member of the Perinatal Research Society, and is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
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Synneva Hagen-Lillevik, PhD, MS, RDN

Dr. Hagen-Lillevik is a NIH T32 nutrition postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Pediatrics, Section of Nutrition at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus under the mentorship of Dr. Teri Hernandez. She completed her PhD in Nutrition and Integrative Physiology at the University of Utah studying inborn errors of carbohydrate metabolism. Her prior postdoctoral work was sponsored by the Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists (ADCES), which focused on behavioral and qualitative research study design while working with women with gestational diabetes. Her current focus is helping women with gestational diabetes achieve optimal outcomes while promoting lifelong health through nutrition with a biobehavioral research lens.

Laurie Moss

Laurie Moss is our resident computer nerd. She takes care of all the forms, labs, and sample tracking data for all of our past and active studies. She has been with the University since 2000. She started with the Department of Public Health, managing their databases in Diabetes research. She has since moved on and now manages data for a multitude of Rheumatology and Endocrinology studies. She currently supports over ten physicians and their study research. She also supports over 25 staff members with their various data needs in these various studies.

Dr. Jayne Martin Carli, PhD

Dr. Martin Carli is a molecular biologist, Certified Lactation Counselor and postdoctoral research fellow mentored by Dr. Barbour and Dr. Hernandez. She earned her doctorate at Columbia University in New York, where she studied the effects of genetics on body weight and metabolism. She became fascinated with the metabolic benefits of breastfeeding after the birth of her daughter in 2016. She moved to Denver in 2018 to develop new ways to study the human breast during lactation by looking at the cells found in milk. Dr. Martin Carli is the Principal Investigator for the Milk Cell Study.

Emily Dunn, MS, RDN, CDE, CCRC

Emily Dunn is a Registered Dietitian, Certified Diabetes Educator, and Certified Clinical Research Coordinator. She earned her Master of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics degree at the University of Kansas. She moved to Denver from Kansas City, MO in 2014 and has been working with the Infant GOLD Research Team since 2017.

Evangelique Lopez, BA

Evangelique Lopez is a Research Services Professional with over five years of experience in the field. Since 2024, she has contributed to the BASSINET and TOTS studies, leveraging her expertise in data collection and study coordination. Evangelique holds a BA in Psychology from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2020 and is dedicated to advancing scientific knowledge through her work.

Our Team