Director
- Ferdinand G. Weisbrod Professor in Gastroenterology
- Director, Penn Center for Nutritional Science and Medicine
- Co-Director, PennCHOP Microbiome Program
- Co-Director, Center for Molecular Studies in Digestive and Liver Diseases
Steering Committee
Kyle Bittinger, PhD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Charlene Compher, PhD, RD, CNSC, LDN, FADA, FASPEN
Shearer Endowed Term Professor in Healthy Community Practices
Professor of Nutrition Sciences
Benjamin A. Garcia, PhD
Presidential Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Karen Glanz, PhD, MPH
George A. Weiss University Professor of Nursing & Epidemiology
Matthew R. Hayes, PhD
Associate Professor of Nutritional Neuroscience In Psychiatry
Lauren Hudson, MS, RD, LDN
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Jim Lewis, MD, MSCE
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
Hongzhe Li, PhD
Professor Of Biostatistics In Biostatistics And Epidemiology
Octavia Pickett-Blakely, MD, MHS
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Noel N. Williams, MD
Rhoads-Harrington Professor in Surgery
John Wherry, PhD
Richard and Barbara Schiffrin President’s
Distinguished Professor of Microbiology
Babette Zemel, PhD
Research Professor of Pediatrics
Staff
Lillian Chau, MS
Technical Director
chaul@mail.med.upenn.edu
William McKeever
Postdoctoral Fellow in Nutritional Epidemiology Research
william.mckeever@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Jessica Monkoski
Financial Administrator
jesmo@pennmedicine.upenn.edu