Keith Hazleton, MD, PhD

Keith Hazleton, MD, PhD, is an Attending Physician of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition and Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine of USC. He received is MD and his PhD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and completed his pediatrics specialty training at the Children's Hospital Colorado/University of Colorado. He has joined the liver and intestinal transplant team at CHLA and is researcher at the Saban Research Institute.

His research has focused on how what we eat can affect the intestinal infection caused by C. difficile as part of Dr. Catherine Lozupone's lab at University of Colorado. His work has shown that dietary fat and fiber can affect the severity of infection and led to a clinical trial using a low-fat, high-fiber diet to prevent C. difficile infection. His work is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health and previously received funding from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.