University of California at Los Angeles

Fellowship Director:
Zhaoping Li, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine
Lynda and Stewart Resnick Endowed Chair in Human Nutrition
Director, Center for Human Nutrition
Chief, Division of Clinical Nutrition
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
200 Medical Plaza, Suite 365
Los Angeles, California 90095
Phone: 310-206-1987
Website: clinicalnutrition.ucla.edu
E-mail: zli@mednet.ucla.edu

Nutrition is the cornerstone of health, prevention and treatment of diseases.  Medical nutrition is moving into the new era of Nutrition for Precision Health.  Division of Clinical Nutrition offers a one-year fellowship training in Medical Nutrition.  Fellows will see patients in our Clinical Nutrition Clinic, Nutrition Oncology clinic, COMET (bariatric surgery) Clinic, UCLA Medical Weight Management Program, Adult Enteral and Parental Nutrition clinics and inpatient consultation service.  Fellows will gain expertise in a wide range of nutrition-related conditions including adult obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, nutritional oncology, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, and malnutrition.   Despite this broad range, fellows have the opportunity to focus their areas of interest throughout their training.  Please contact Dr. Zhaoping Li (zli@mednet.ucla.edu) for more information.

Specialty : Internal Medicine

Subspecialty: Nutrition

Primary Focus: Adults

# of Positions: 1st Yr: 1-2; 2nd Yr: 1-2

Duration: 24 months

Eligibility Requirements : Internal Medicine, Family Practice

Recruiting for 2023?: No

# Fellows being recruited :

Positions obtained by fellows in last 10 years
Academic:
Private:
Industry:
Other (Specify):

Certification exams taken by fellows
ABPNS:
ASPEN:
ACN:
Other (specify):

Background of fellows before entering program
Internal Medicine:
Family Medicine:
GI (adult/peds):
Endocrinology:
Nephrology:
Cardiology:
Critical Care Medicine:
PM:
Other (specify):

 

Faculty

# Directors : 1

Director Fellowship Trained? :Yes

Director time (%) : 100

Additional Faculty? : 1

Time (%) : 100

Other Faculty (#) :

Time (%) :

Fellow Funding Source (%) :

Extramural : 25 (NIH)

Hospital :

Practice : 75

Department :

Other :

Fellow Time Allocation
Yr 1
Didactic:
Clinical: 25
Research: 75
Teaching:
Yr 2 Didactic:
Clinical: 25
Research: 75
Teaching:
Yr 3
Didactic:
Clinical:
Research:
Teaching:

Program Content Taught Through:
Self: 40
Supervised Clinical:
Lecture/Academic:
Lecture/Non-academic:
Clinical Conference: 25
Research Seminar: 35
Journal:
Other:

Courses
Biochemistry:
Clinical Nutrition:
Biostatistics: 2
Other: 2 (clinical research)

% Fellowship Devoted to Nutrition: 80-100%

% Fellowship Devoted to Nutrition Support: greater than 20%

# of Educational Conferences per Month :

Clinical : 4

Clinical Nutrition :4

Fellows expected :4

Basic : 4

Basic Nutrition : 4

Fellows expected : 4

Journal : 0

Journal Nutrition :0

Fellows expected :0

Research :2

Research Nutrition :2
Fellows expected : 2

Lab : 4

Lab Nutrition : 4

Fellows expected : 4