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Home / Symposium Speaker Spotlight / Symposium Speaker Spotlight: Dr. Zhaoping Li to discuss Optimal Nutrition

Symposium Speaker Spotlight: Dr. Zhaoping Li to discuss Optimal Nutrition

Professor of Medicine and the Director of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition, Dr. Li to present at the 13th Annual Symposium on Pancreatic Cancer

February 25, 2017

The Hirshberg Foundation is excited to have Dr. Zhaoping Li, joining us at the 13th Annual Symposium on Pancreatic Cancer to discuss the role that food and diet play in achieving optimal health.

Zhaoping Li, MD, is a Professor of Medicine and the Director of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition, Chief of the Division of Clinical Nutrition in the Department of Medicine, at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine and a Physician Nutrition Specialist.

Dr. Li’s primary areas of research are obesity treatment and prevention, the role of nutrition, phytochemicals, and botanical dietary supplements in the prevention and treatment of metabolic disease, common forms of cancer and cardiovascular disease. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in journals such as JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and Journal of American Dietetic Association.

We are excited to have Dr. Li will speak on Optimal Nutrition for pancreatic cancer at the 13th Annual Symposium at UCLA.

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