 David
Heber
M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.P.,
F.A.C.N. Chairman,
Nutrition & Scientific
Advisory Boards United State
David Heber, M.D. serves as chairman of Herbalife’s
Nutrition Advisory Board made up of leading health
and nutrition experts, and the company’s
Scientific Advisory Board comprised of world—renowned
scientists whose work furthers the field of nutrition
science. The boards support the company’s
internal product development team by providing
expertise on obesity and human nutrition and educating
and training Herbalife independent distributors
on the principles of nutrition, physical activity
and healthy lifestyle.
Heber’s main research interests are obesity
treatment and nutrition for cancer prevention and
treatment. He is the director of the Centre for
Human Nutrition at the University of California,
Los Angeles*. Heber has been on the faculty of
the UCLA School of Medicine since 1978, and is
currently professor of medicine and public health
and the founding chief of the division of clinical
nutrition in the department of medicine.
He directs the National Cancer Institute (NCI)
funded clinical research unit and the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) nutrition and obesity
grants at UCLA. For five years, he also directed
the NIH-funded UCLA Centre for dietary supplement
research in botanicals.
Heber is included in “The Best Doctors in
America” and “Who’s Who in America.” In
addition to writing over 70 peer-reviewed scientific
articles and two professional texts, he has also
written four books.
Heber holds a B.S. in chemistry, Magna Cum Laude,
UCLA, 1969; M.D. from Harvard Medical School, 1973;
and Ph.D. in Physiology, University of California,
1978. He is board certified in internal medicine
and endocrinology and metabolism by the American
Board of Internal Medicine and in clinical nutrition
by the American Board of Nutrition.
The University of California as
a matter of policy does not endorse specific products
or services.
Dr. Heber’s credentials as a Professor are
for identification purposes only.
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