Eduardo Bustamante, PhD

Dr. Bustamante is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He is also the founder and director the UIC Healthy Kids Lab. Prior to joining the UIC faculty, Dr. Bustamante was a Postdoctoral Fellow focused on pediatric obesity at Medical College of Georgia. His research explores the relationships between health behaviors, brain development, and mental health in youth, especially children with ADHD and disruptive behavior disorders. Dr. Bustamante is committed to promoting health in communities where childhood obesity, chronic disease, and mental health disorder rates are high and resources available to meet needs are low. Towards these ends, he partners with youth service organizations in the city to develop evidence-based interventions to simultaneously promote children's physical and mental health. His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and published in high-level peer-reviewed scientific journals.