![[picture]](http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/pictures/comAF1.jpg) Bernard Gutin Collection
Dr. Gutin is Professor Emeritus of Applied Physiology and Education in the Department of Movement Science and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. He earned his A.B. at Hunter in 1960, and his A.M. and Ph.D. at New York University in 1961 and 1965, respectively. He completed postdoctoral training in stress physiology at the University of California, Santa Barbara Institute of Environmental Stress.
Dr. Gutin has been studying fitness and fatness since the 1970s, well before its lifelong impact on health was understood. He has been principal investigator on a half-dozen National Institutes of Health grants in the last 10 years examining the impact of fitness on fatness and vice versa. He and his colleagues are in the middle of the MCG FitKid Project, funded by a $3.3 million NIH grant, looking at whether after-school hours filled with physical activity, healthy snacks, homework and academic enrichment skills can help turn the tide of the 'obesogenic' environment of inactivity and unhealthy eating in which many children live.
Recently, Dr. Gutin, as a researcher at the Medical College of Georgia studying the relationship between fitness, fatness and health in children, has been selected a Fulbright Senior Specialist to help Spain deal with a growing childhood obesity problem.
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