Claudia Toledo-Corral
Claudia Toledo-Corral is a PhD candidate in the Preventive Medicine department of the USC Keck School of Medicine. She obtained her B.S. in Psychobiology & Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and an M.S. in Biology from California State University, Northridge (CSUN). This academic background in both social and basic science qualified Claudia to pursue transdisciplinary diabetes research in an underserved population for her doctoral studies at USC. She has authored several manuscripts and received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) fellowship to complete her dissertation proposal on the metabolic syndrome and atherosclerosis risk in overweight Latino youth.
Aside from research, Claudia is also very committed to the teaching discipline. Beginning during her undergraduate years, she was a tutor and mentor in various school and community based programs at UCLA. Her formal college-level teaching experience ensued at CSUN, where she held a part-time faculty position as a Teaching Associate to various undergraduate biology courses, including human embryology and upper division cellular biology laboratory. At USC, she has been a popular Teaching Assistant in the Health Promotion department in classes such as Nutritional Epidemiology and Happiness & Well-being.