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 and the application of nutrition in common forms of cancer including prostate and breast cancer. 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 where he directed multiple NIH-funded research programs including the National Cancer Institute-funded UCLA Clinical Nutrition Research Unit, The NIH-funded UCLA Dietary Supplements Research Center: Botanicals and the NIH- National Institutes of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases UCLA Nutrition and Obesity Training Program where he oversaw the training of research fellows many of whom are currently in academic or industry positions. He has published over 250 research papers and numerous professional texts. Internationally. In 2014, he co-wrote a textbook with Dr. Bharat Aggarwal entitled Immunonutrition (CRC Press). Dr. Heber is board-certified in Internal Medicine, and Endocrinology and Metabolism by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He earned his MD at Harvard Medical School, and his Ph.D. in Physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2014, he was elected a Fellow of the American Society for Nutrition, the highest honor of the society. In 2017, he co-wrote a textbook for doctors together with Dr. Zhaoping Li, entitled Primary Care Nutrition: Writing the Nutrition Prescription (CRC Press, 2017).
Zhaoping Li, MD, PhD is the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Endowed Chair in Human Nutrition, Professor and Chief of the Division of Clinical Nutrition in the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is also the Vice Chair of Medicine at the Greater Los Angeles VA Health System and is the Director of the multidisciplinary UCLA Center for Human Nutrition which includes the renowned UCLA Weight Management Program, the Nutritional Medicine Consultation Service and a Nutritional Oncology Consultation Program serving cancer patients in over 80 practices within UCLA Health Care System. She has been working with Dr. Heber in the Division of Clinical Nutrition since 1997. Dr. Li is board certified in internal medicine, physician nutrition specialists, a fellow of American College of Physicians, and is a former President of the National Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Society for Nutrition. Her research interests span both basic and clinical research in obesity, cancer and other age-related chronic diseases and she supervises a faculty of MD clinical physician scientists and PhD laboratory scientists investigating gene-nutrient interaction, nutritional modulation of the microbiome, and health impacts of phytonutrients. Dr. Li 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 scientific papers. In addition to the present volume she co-wrote Primary Care Nutrition: Writing the Nutrition Prescription with Dr. David Heber, published by CRC Press in 2017.
Vay Liang W. Go, M.D. is a distinguished professor and co-director of the UCLA Agi Hirshberg Center for Pancreatic Diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Editor-in-Chief of Pancreas and co-founder of the American Pancreatic Association. Over a five-decade academic career, his research has focused on the regulation of the human exocrine and endocrine pancreas and gut-brain axis in health and disease. He expanded to nutrition and cancer prevention and the mechanism of action of phytochemicals on pancreatic diseases utilizing metabolomics technologies. He received his internal medicine and gastroenterology training and subsequently became a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic. From 1985 to 1988, Dr. Go served in three related capacities at the National Institutes of Health, all involving digestive diseases and nutrition. He became the Executive Chairman, UCLA Department of Medicine from 1988-1992. In 1994, he co-founded the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition with Dr. David Heber. He was the Associate Director of the NCI-funded Clinical Research Unit, director of the Nutrition Education program and co-principal investigator of the NIH funded nutrition curriculum development grants and the cancer prevention curriculum program. Dr. Go has authored and co-authored more than 400 peer reviewed manuscripts and mentored and trained more than 80 fellows in the field of gastroenterology, nutrition, endocrinology, and pancreatology, many of whom have attained leadership roles in their respective fields.
