Our Team

Vibha Singhal, MD, MPH

Principal Investigator

Dr. Singhal is Associate Professor of Pediatrics at University of California, Los Angeles, and the director of pediatric obesity in the department of Pediatrics at UCLA. She is board certified in Obesity Medicine and Pediatric Endocrinology. After finishing her medical school at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, she finished her pediatric residency at Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota. She did her endocrinology training at the Massachusetts General hospital and obtained a master’s in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health. She is a clinician scientist and has co-authored more than 80 original articles and written many reviews and book chapters. 

Clinical Interests: To provide efficient and evidence-based care to children and adolescents with obesity, especially the high-risk and marginalized population via the FIT for health clinic, a multidisciplinary obesity management clinic where we offer all levels of care- intensive healthy behavior and lifestyle treatment, pharmacological and surgical treatment for obesity. She is particularly interested in optimizing obesity care in individuals with developmental disability and has developed expertise in medical management in Down syndrome. She is also focused on developing the workforce needed to deliver this optimal care.

Research Interests: Her previous NIH funded grant evaluated the impact of sleeve gastrectomy on insulin secretion in adolescents in context of bile acids, microbiome, and metabolomics. Her passion involves improving obesity management via personalized obesity treatments.  Her current interest is in evaluating the reproductive outcomes and the effects of obesity and obesity treatments on the next generation.