Professor Dennis M . Bier

Professor of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas and Editor in Chief of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Expertise

Dennis M. Bier, M.D., is Professor of Pediatrics, Director of the USDA Children’s Nutrition Research Center, and Program Director of the NIH General Clinical Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine.  He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the American Society for Nutrition, a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science and Chairman of the Institute’s Food and Nutrition Board.

Dr. Bier serves as Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and Associate Editor of the Annual Review of Nutrition. He is Chairman of the Board of the International Life Sciences Institute Research Foundation, a member of the McDonald’s Global Advisory Council, and the ConAgra Foods Scientific Advisory Board. 

He has been President of the American Society for Nutrition (with Dr. Naomi Fukagawa), the American Society for Nutritional Sciences, the American Society of Clinical Nutrition, and the NIH General Clinical Research Centers Programs Directors Association. He has also been Editor-in-Chief of Pediatric Research, Councilor of the American Pediatric Society, Chairman of the NIH Nutrition Study Section, and Chairman of the NIH General Clinical Research Centers Committee.  In addition, he has served as a member of various other scientific advisory panels, including the U.S. 1995 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, the FDA Pediatric Advisory Committee and the FDA Food Advisory Committee. 

Dr. Bier has authored more than 250 scientific publications and, for his research work, he has received the Nutrition Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the E.V. McCollum Award from the American Institute of Nutrition, the Grace A. Goldsmith Award from the American College of Nutrition, the General Clinical Research Centers Award for Excellence in Clinical Research from the NIH, the Distinguished Service Award from Washington University School of Medicine and the Professional Achievement Award from Le Moyne College.

Recent publication

Bier DM. The phenotype of human obesity: the scope of the problem.

Nestle Nutr Workshop Ser Pediatr Program. 2008;62:97-106;

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