Board of Directors

Ruba Abdelhadi, MD, CNSC
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
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
Secretary/Treasurer
Research Associate, Department of Nutrition
University of California at Davis
Zhaoping Li, MD, PhD
Director, Center for Human Nutrition
Chief, Division of Clinical Nutrition
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Melina B. Jampolis, MD
Center for Human Nutrition, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
Michael M. Rothkopf, MD, FACP, FACN
Director, Metabolic Medicine Center
Morristown Medical Center
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Mt Sinai School of Medicine
Jill R. Cherry-Bukowiec, MD, MS, FACS
Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery, University of Toledo
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
Senthilkumar Sankararaman, MD
Co-Director, Pediatric Advanced Nutrition Program and Intestinal Rehabilitation
Cleveland Clinic
Paul E. Wischmeyer, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology, Professor, Department of Surgery
Duke University School of Medicine
Michael C. Garcia, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor, Medicine
UCLA Health
Michael C. Owen-Michaane, MD, MA, CNSC
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