Dr. Rachael T. Leon Guerrero now heads theOffice of Research & Sponsored Programsfollowing several months as interim director and three and a half years as associate
director of the Western Pacific Tropical Research Center. In her new capacity, she
will collaborate with the University’s research centers on research agendas that support
UOG’s mission of engagement.
Dr. Leon Guerrero has been with UOG for 20 years, the majority of that time as a professor
of nutrition in the College of Natural & Applied Sciences. She is the principal investigator
of the U54 Cancer Research Partnership Grant and co-investigator of the Pacific Islands
Cohort on Cardiometabolic Health Study. She holds a 1989 bachelor’s in biology from
UOG, a 1992 master’s in nutrition from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and a 1998
doctorate in nutrition from Colorado State University.