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Professor Emeritus and Founding Director
UCLA Center for Human Nutrition
Los Angeles, California, United States
Dr. Heber is Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Public Health at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and is internationally prominent in the field nutrition and cancer as well as in obesity, and age-related chronic diseases. He is also the Founding Director of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition and founding Chief of the Division of Clinical Nutrition in the UCLA Department of Medicine. He has published over 250 research papers. He has published books for the public which were national bestsellers including What Color Is Your Diet? (Harper –Collins, 2001) emphasizing color in getting diverse phytonutrients into the diet, and The LA Shape Diet (Harper –Collins 2005) both of which have been translated into multiple languages internationally. Dr. Heber is board-certified in Internal Medicine, and Endocrinology and Metabolism by the American Board of Internal Medicine and is a certified Physician Nutrition Specialist. He earned his MD at Harvard Medical School, and his Ph.D. in Physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Heber's primary areas of research are the role of nutrition, phytonutrients, and botanical dietary supplements in the prevention and treatment of common forms of cancer, obesity, and cardiovascular disease.
Thursday, June 16, 2022
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET
Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
Thursday, June 16, 2022
12:00 PM – 12:25 PM ET
Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.