Erica G. Soltero graduated from Rice University in 2011
with a bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology. Then, she entered an accelerated
doctoral program in the Department of Health and Human Performance at the
University of Houston. In 2016, she graduated with her doctorate and
transitioned into a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Health Promotion
and Disease Prevention at Arizona State University in Phoenix, Arizona. She
received an American Heart Association postdoctoral fellowship grant to examine
novel biomarkers of cardiovascular diseases in youth with obesity. She has also
received a pilot grant from the National Institute of Minority Health and
Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health to expand her expertise
on the relationship between physical activity and diabetes-related outcomes in
youth with obesity. In 2019, she returned to Houston and joined the faculty at
the Children’s Nutrition Research Center and the Department of Pediatrics at
Baylor College of Medicine. So far in her career, she has been highly
productive in her research efforts, with almost 30 publications, 40 abstract citations,
and 4 meritorious awards. In addition to her research efforts, she is an active
member of the Network for Minority Research Investigators as part of the
National Institutes for Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and an
active member in national professional societies such as The Obesity Society
and the Society of Behavioral Medicine.
