Dr. Perng holds an MPH and Ph.D. in Epidemiology, and completed two perinatal epidemiology postdoctoral fellowships through Harvard Medical School, followed by the T-32 Perinatal Epidemiology Program at Michigan State University. Dr. Perng joined the Department of Nutritional Sciences at UMPSH in 2015, where she launched her research project on metabolomics, obesity and metabolic disease risk in Project 2. In addition to her work in metabolomics, Dr. Perng oversees projects that involve the use of dietary data.