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Steven H. Zeisel, M.D., PhD.

Steven Ziesel is Associate Dean for Research at the University of North Carolna at Chapel Hill in the School of Public Health, Kenan Distinguished University Professor in Nutrition, as well as Director of the UNC Clinical Nutrition Center. He was recently named Director of the UNC School of Public Health's Nutrition Research Institute at the newly formed North Carolina research Campus in Kannapolis, North Carolina. He served as Chair of the Department of Nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1990-2005. He is a recent past-president of the American Society for Nutritional Sciences, and currently a member of the American Society for parenteral an Enteral Nutrition, American College of Nutrition and the Society for Pediatric Research, among others. He serves on the FASEB Journal editorial board, as well as the Annual Reivew of Nutrition's editorial committee.

Dr. Ziesel is a member of the World Cancer Research Fund's Expert Panel on "Food, Nutrition and the Prevention of Cancer: a global perspective". He serves as the principal investigator on multiple federally funded research projects that focus on human requirements for choline and the effects of this nutrient on brain development. He has authored more than 260 scientific publications. Dr. Zeisel earned his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1975, was a Resident in Pediatrics at Yale University from 1975-1977, and earned his PhD degree in nutrition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980.