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Professor
UCLA, California, United States
Zhaoping Li, MD, PhD is a professor of medicine, Lynda and Stewart Resnick endowed chair in human nutrition at David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA. She currently holds the positions of Director of Center for Human Nutrition, Chief of Division of Clinical Nutrition at UCLA.
Dr. Li currently is the council member of International Union of Nutrition Science. She has served as president of National Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists (NBPNS) and the Board of Directors of American Society for Nutrition (ASN) since 2017. Her passion is to advocate for nutrition science research and bring nutrition to the forefront of disease prevention and treatment. For nearly three decades, Dr Li’s research interest has focused on translational research in the role of macronutrients and phytochemicals in the prevention and treatment of obesity-related chronic diseases. She has been a principal investigator for over 100 investigator-initiated National Institutes of Health– and industry-sponsored clinical trials and published over 200 peer-reviewed papers in journals such as JAMA, Lancet, Annals of Internal Medicine, Nature Biotechnology, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and Journal of American Dietetic Association. She has Co-Authored “Primary Care Nutrition: Writing the Nutrition Prescription” and “Nutrition Oncology: Nutrition in Cancer Prevention, Treatment, and Survivorship” published by CRC Press.
Saturday, May 6, 2023
10:45 AM – 11:30 AM
Saturday, May 6, 2023
1:15 PM – 2:30 PM