His PhD is in human clinical nutrition, and he holds the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Certified Exercise Physiologist certification. His research interests include human clinical trials examining nutritional, physical activity, body weight, and metabolic outcomes. Dr. Apolzan has been part of research teams working with the pediatric population since 2004, at which time he worked on a randomized controlled trial (RCT) named ‘Camp Calcium’ where he measured resting metabolic rate and thermic effect of food in overweight and obese adolescents during a controlled feeding trial with varying calcium levels.