Email

wwong@bcm.edu

Positions

Professor

Pediatrics-Nutrition
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

Education

Postdoctoral Training at Texas A&M University

12/1978 - College Station, TX United States

PhD from Texas A&M University

12/1976 - College Station, Texas United States

MS from Texas A&M University

08/1974 - College Station, Texas United States

B.S. from Texas Lutheran College

01/1972 - Seguin, TX United States

Honors & Awards

Young Investigator Award

Award given to a highly productive junior faculty

USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center (03/1985)

Community Leadership Award

Recognition of leadership in a community-based healthy living promotion program among minority children

President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition (05/2012)

Educator Outstanding Service Award

Recognition for promoting awareness among the management and staff of the Houston Parks & Recreation Department on the epidemic of childhood obesity among minority children.

Texas Recreation & Park Society (03/2013)

Professional Statement

My main research interests involve studies of dietary supplementation to prevent chronic diseases, intervention of childhood obesity, and energy metabolism under healthy conditions and diseased states.

Websites

Professional Development

Applicability of the doubly-labeled water technique for energy expenditure measurement in man

Conference (Presenter, 1985)

Sponsor: USDA

Application of 2H and 18O isotopes in nutrition studies

Seminar (Presenter, 1987)

Sponsor: National Institutes of Health

Analytical considerations in the doubly-labelled water 2H218O method

Conference (Presenter, 1987)

Sponsor: University of Cambridge

Doubly-labeled water method: principles and analytical methods

Seminar (Presenter, 1990)

Sponsor: Shrines Hospital

Deuterium incorporation method for estimation of in vivo cholesterol synthesis

Seminar (Presenter, 1992)

Sponsor: NASA Johnson Space Center

Total energy expenditure of free-living humans can be estimated with the doubly labeled water method

Conference (Presenter, 1994)

Sponsor: Fort Wayne State Development Center

Gas-Isotope-Ratio Mass Spectrometry

Workshop (Presenter, 2014)

Sponsor: National Institute of Health and Nutrition

Safety of the DLW Method, Past and Future Applications

Workshop (Presenter, 2014)

Sponsor: National Institute of Health and Nutrition

Selected Publications

• Wong WW "90th Anniversary commentary: measurement of energy expenditure in free-living humans by using doubly labeled water." J Nutr. 2018 148 : 1660-2. Pubmed PMID: 30281104
• Shaw PA, McMurray R, Butte N, Sotres-Alvarez D, Sun H, Stoutenberg M, Evenson KR, Wong WW, Moncrieft AE, Sanchez-Johnson LAP, Carnethon MR, Arredondo E, Matthews CE, Mossavar-Rahmani Y "Calibration of activity-related energy expenditure in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHC/SOL)." J Sci Med Sport. 2019 22 : 300-6. Pubmed PMID: 30177242
• Ebbeling CB, Feldman HA, Klein GL, Wong JMW, Bielak L, Steltz SK, Luoto PK, Wolfe RR, Wong WW, Ludwig DS "Effects of a low-carbohydrate diet on energy expenditure during weight loss maintenance: a randomized feeding study." BMJ. 2018 363 : k4583. Pubmed PMID: 30429127
• Hoover JD, Wong WW, Apachi I, Brandt P, Jeewa A "Energy intake and expenditure in children with heart failure." Pediatr Clin Care Med. 2018 19 : e627-30. Pubmed PMID: 30095749

Memberships

American Institute of Nutrition

Member (03/1988)

Funding

Effect of PDE5 Inhibition on Adipose Metabolism in Humans - #1R01DK124845-01A1

$395,450.00 (02/01/2021 - 01/31/2025)

Grant funding from NIDDK

To understand the effect of PDE5 inhibition on adipose metabolism in obese humans.

Physiological Approach to Sodium Supplementation in Preterm Infants

$35,676.00 (01/01/2019 - 06/30/2021)

Grant funding from Thrasher Research Foundation

To understand the effect of sodium supplementation on energy metabolism and growth in preterm infants.