David Heber

Dr. Heber is Professor of Medicine and Public Health Director at the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition. He is the founding Chief of the Division of Clinical Nutrition in the Department of Medicine and the founding Director of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition. He received his PhD. in physiology from UCLA and MD from Harvard Medical School. Dr. Heber is Director at the NIH Center for Dietary Supplement Research in Botanicals (CDSRB). He also served as Director of the NIH Nutrition Training Program and Director of the Clinical Nutrition Research Unit. Dr. Heber is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, and Metabolism by the American Board of Internal Medicine and in Clinical Nutrition by the American Board of Nutrition. Dr. Heber is a Director of the American Board of Nutrition and past chair of the Education Committee of the American Society of Clinical Nutrition.

He has written over 70 peer-reviewed scientific articles and 25 book chapters, and two professional texts: Dietary Fat, Lipids, Hormones and Tumorigenesis, and Nutritional Oncology. Dr. Heber's primary areas of interest are in nutrition, botanical dietary supplements, and the role of phytochemicals and botanical dietary supplements in the prevention and treatment of common forms of cancer and cardiovascular disease.