Dr. Suzanne Lazorick is currently Chair of the Department of Public Health and Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health. In 2006, she joined the faculty at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University (ECU), where her focus is on childhood obesity. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) for medical school and to obtain her master’s degree in Public Health, and remained there for residency training in combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. She later returned to the UNC for a primary care research fellowship and Preventive Medicine residency. She is a Diplomat of the American Board of Obesity Medicine.