ASPEN
is honored to award the 2021 Rhoads Research Lecture to Thomas R. Ziegler, MD,
MS. Dr. Ziegler is Professor of Medicine, Emory University School of
Medicine, in Atlanta and Director of the Emory Center for Clinical and
Molecular Nutrition. Since 1994, he has served as the Co-Director of the
multidisciplinary Emory University Hospital Nutrition and Metabolic Support
Service, where he provides inpatient and outpatient nutritional care for adults
with intestinal failure, malabsorption, critical illness, and nutritional
depletion.
Dr. Ziegler received BS and MS degrees in Nutrition and a MD degree from
Michigan State University. After Internal Medicine training in Ann Arbor and
Boston, he completed sequential fellowships in Clinical Nutrition and then
Endocrinology/Metabolism at Harvard Medical School. His mentor at the Brigham
and Women’s Hospital in Boston was Douglas W. Wilmore, MD, a member of the
original team at Penn that developed parenteral nutrition with Dr. Jonathan Rhoads,
who was Dr. Wilmore’s mentor. Dr. Ziegler’s work in the Wilmore lab included
early clinical studies on gut permeability in burn patients, the anabolic effect
of growth hormone in patients requiring parenteral nutrition, the impact of
modified individualized diet, with glutamine and growth hormone, in short gut
patients, and studies on the safety and efficacy of glutamine-supplemented
parenteral nutrition in bone marrow transplantation. At Emory, his internationally
recognized research in nutrition and metabolism has been continuously funded by
NIH since 1996, and his research has resulted in >220 original
manuscripts. He is a standing member of the new NIH Nutrition and
Metabolism in Health and Disease (NMHD) Study Section. Dr. Ziegler is an
editor of the latest edition of the reference textbook Modern
Nutrition in Health and Disease.
Dr. Ziegler has worked closely with Emory Professor Dean P. Jones, PhD to
develop a clinical metabolomics research program at Emory and his more recent
human studies involve plasma high-resolution metabolomics in clinical cohorts,
including patients with tuberculosis, obesity, critical illness, and metabolic
bone disease.
Dr. Ziegler has a strong mentoring background in nutrition and metabolism; his
K24/NIDDK mentoring grant from 2007-2018 was entitled "Patient-Oriented
Research in Clinical Nutrition". He serves as the Program Director of the
Emory University Hospital Clinical Research Center. He has served on multiple
editorial boards (including JPEN from 1992-2019) and on several NIH grant
review panels.
Join your colleagues and learn more from Dr. Ziegler in his lecture on
“Nutritional Metabolomics: Back to the Future of Nutrition and Metabolic
Support.”
FACULTY
Thomas
Ziegler, MD, MS, Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism
and Lipids Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA; Director, Emory
Center for Clinical and Molecular Nutrition; Co-Program Director (TL1) Research
Education Programs, Georgia Clinical and Translational Science Alliance
(Georgia CTSA); and Director, Emory University Hospital Clinical Research
Center, Georgia CTSA Clinical Research Centers, Atlanta, GA
CE Credit: 1 hours
Level: Advanced
UAN: JA0002345-0000-21-044-L04-P