Christopher Duggan
Secondary Faculty

Christopher Duggan

Professor in the Department of Nutrition

Nutrition

Other Positions

Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Global Health and Population

Global Health and Population

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Samuel J. Meltzer, MD Professor of Pediatrics in the Field of Gastroenterology

Pediatrics-Boston Children's Hospital

Harvard Medical School


Overview

Christopher Duggan, M.D., M.P.H. is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He trained in Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Nutrition and Gastroenterology at Boston Children's Hospital, and Clinical Epidemiology at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. He is Samuel Meltzer Professor of Pediatrics in the Field of Gastroenterology and Director of the Division of Nutrition at Harvard Medical School and a Professor in the Departments of Nutrition and Global Health and Population at Harvard Chan. He is a pediatric gastroenterologist and nutrition physician at Boston Children's Hospital where he directs the Center for Nutrition. He is Medical Director of the Center for Advanced Intestinal Rehabilitation, one of the largest centers for the care of children with intestinal failure/chronic diarrhea in the US. His research interests include the nutritional management of acute and persistent diarrhea, clinical trials of micronutrient supplementation, and general aspects of nutritional support in catabolism. In 2019, he was named Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, one of the top-rated peer-reviewed journals in the field of nutrition.


Bibliography

The Association between Breastfeeding and Growth among Infants with Moderately Low Birth Weight: A Prospective Cohort Study.

North K, Semrau KEA, Bellad RM, Dhaded SM, Das L, Behera JN, Hoffman I, Mvalo T, Kisenge R, Sudfeld CR, Somji S, Mokhtar RR, Vesel L, Goudar S, Vernekar SS, Siddhartha ES, Singh B, Koujalagi MB, Panda S, Kafansiyanji E, Nyirenda N, Phiri M, Saidi F, Masoud NS, Moshiro R, Tuller DE, Israel-Ballard K, Duggan CP, Lee AC, Mansen KL, Young MF, Manji K.

J Pediatr. 2024 Mar 04. 114003. PMID: 38447758


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