Board of Directors

Ruba Abdelhadi, MD, PNS
NBPNS President
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Director, Nutrition Services Programs, Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics
Anupama “Anu” Chawla, MD, DCH, PNS
Past 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
David McCarron, MD, FACP, FAHA, PNS
Secretary/Treasurer
Research Associate, Department of Nutrition
University of California at Davis
Zhaoping Li, MD, PhD, PNS
Director, Center for Human Nutrition
Chief, Division of Clinical Nutrition
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Melina B. Jampolis, MD, PNS
Center for Human Nutrition, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
Michael M. Rothkopf, MD, FACP, FACN, PNS
Director, Metabolic Medicine Center
Morristown Medical Center
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Mt Sinai School of Medicine
Jill R. Cherry-Bukowiec, MD, MS, FACS, PNS
Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery, University of Toledo
Omer J. Deen, MD, PNS
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Refaat Hegazi, MD, PhD, PNS
Director, Global Medical Affairs
Director, Scientific and Medical External Engagement
Abbott Nutrition
Monica Agarwal, MD, MEHP, FACE, PNS
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, PNS
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
Senthilkumar Sankararaman, MD, PNS
Co-Director, Pediatric Advanced Nutrition Program and Intestinal Rehabilitation
Cleveland Clinic
Paul E. Wischmeyer, MD, PNS
Professor of Anesthesiology, Professor, Department of Surgery
Duke University School of Medicine
Michael C. Garcia, MD, PNS
Assistant Clinical Professor, Medicine
UCLA Health
Michael C. Owen-Michaane, MD, MA, PNS
Assistant Director of Medical Nutrition
Columbia University Irving Medical Center

STAFF CONTACTS

Griff Courtney
American Society for Nutrition
2440 Research Blvd. Suite 430
Rockville, MD 20850, USA
E-mail: gcourtney@nutrition.org