Board of Directors

Anupama “Anu” Chawla, MD, DCH, NBPNS

President

Professor of Pediatrics; Chief, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology
Program Director; Director of Celiac Disease Center
https://www.stonybrookchildrens.org/AnupamaChawlaMD
Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
Department of Pediatrics; Pediatric Gastroenterology Fellowship Program
Stony Brook Medical Center, Stony Brook, NY

Ruba Abdelhadi, MD, CNSC

Vice President

Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Director, Nutrition Services Programs, Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics

Ken Fujioka, MD

Past President

Director of Center for Weight Management
Director of the Nutrition and Metabolic Research Center Scripps Clinic
Dept. of Diabetes and Endocrine
Scripps Clinic, San Diego, CA

David McCarron, MD, FACP, FAHA

Secretary/Treasurer

Research Associate
Department of Nutrition
University of California at Davis

Zhaoping Li, MD, PhD

Past President

Director, Center for Human Nutrition
Chief, Division of Clinical Nutrition
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Melina B. Jampolis, MD

Past President
Center for Human Nutrition, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA

Michael M. Rothkopf, MD, FACP, FACN

Past President

Director, Metabolic Medicine Center
Morristown Medical Center
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
Mt Sinai School of Medicine

Jill R. Cherry-Bukowiec, MD, MS, FACS

Assistant Professor of Surgery
University of Michigan Hospital
Department of Surgery

Omer J. Deen, MD

Rancho Palos Verdes, CA

Refaat Hegazi, MD, PhD

Director, Global Medical Affairs
Director, Scientific and Medical External Engagement
Abbott Nutrition

Monica Agarwal, MD, MEHP, FACE

Professor, School of Medicine – Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism
Program Director, UAB Obesity Medicine Fellowship Program
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Berkeley Limketkai, MD, PhD, AGAF, FACG

Director of Clinical Research, UCLA Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Associate Professor, Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

STAFF CONTACTS

Dante Preciado
Executive Director
National Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists
9211 Corporate Blvd, Suite 300
Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Tel.: (240) 428-3640
E-mail: nbpns@nutrition.org
E-mail: dpreciado@nutrition.org

Griff Courtney
American Society for Nutrition
9211 Corporate Blvd, Suite 300
Rockville, MD 20850, USA
E-mail: gcourtney@nutrition.org