Christopher Duggan

Christopher Duggan, M.D., M.P.H. is a pediatric gastroenterologist and nutrition physician at Boston Children's Hospital where he directs the Center for Nutrition (http://www.childrenshospital.org/nutrition). He is Medical Director of the Center for Advanced Intestinal Rehabilitation, one of the largest centers in the US for the care of children with intestinal failure/chronic diarrhea syndromes (http://www.childrenshospital.org/cair). In 2019, he was named Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, one of the top-rated peer-reviewed journals in the field of nutrition. He is Samuel Meltzer Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Division of Nutrition at Harvard Medical School, and a Professor in the Departments of Nutrition and Global Health and Population at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. He has twice received the Physician Nutrition Specialist Award from the American Society of Nutrition, was the 2015 recipient of the Fomon Nutrition Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics. With colleagues in Tanzania, India and other countries, he has been funded by NIH, WHO and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to study the role of nutrition in the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. He mentors post-doctoral, doctoral and undergraduate students at Harvard University.