Friday, June 26, 2015

“Nutrition Education and Research in an Era of Global Obesity and Diabetes – Thinking Outside the Box”

David M. Eisenberg, MD

Executive Vice President, Health Research and Education

Samueli Institute

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Auditorium E, Rubin Building, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center  

David M. Eisenberg is currently the Executive Vice President for Health Research and Education at the Samueli Institute and Adjunct Associate Professor of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His landmark national surveys (New England Journal of Medicine, 1993 and JAMA, 1998) documented the remarkable extent to which the US population routinely uses and pays for complementary, alternative and integrative medical therapies.  These data were referenced by the US Congress in its creation of the NIH Office of Alternative Medicine and, subsequently, the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, recently renamed the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health.