Bruce Ryan Bistrian

Dr. Bistrian is Chief, Clinical Nutrition, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is board certified in Internal Medicine with previous subspecialty qualifications in Critical Care Medicine. He received his medical degree from Cornell University, his M.P.H. degree from Johns Hopkins University and his Ph.D. in Nutritional Biochemistry and Metabolism from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research interests are in protein calorie malnutrition, its pathophysiology and assessment, cytokine biology, and the nutritional support of critically ill patients. He is a former President of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. Dr. Bistrian previously served on the Council of the American Society of Nutritional Sciences and was both Secretary and President of the American Society for Clinical Nutrition. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Federation of American Society for Experimental Biology (FASEB) from 2001-2007 and President for 2005-2006. Dr. Bistrian serves on the editorial board of Critical Care Medicine. He formerly served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Nutrition Reviews, Journal of Nutrition, European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Journal of the American College of Nutrition, and Obesity and Behavior. He is the author or co-author of more than 400 original publications in the scientific literature. He received the AMA Goldberger Award in Clinical Nutrition for 2004 and the Lifetime Mentoring Award from Harvard Medical School in 2013.