Co-Founder and Senior Advisor, Global Health, MSIH
Professor of Nutrition, Pediatrics and Epidemiology, Columbia University
Director, Institute of Human Nutrition, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Medical Center
Dr. Deckelbaum is Professor of Nutrition, Pediatrics, and Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. He is the Director of theInstitute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is Co-Founder and Senior Advisor, Global Health at MSIH. Dr. Richard Deckelbaum has been dedicated to global health for decades. He has helped communities help themselves by improving local education, training and research. He also organized research programs between the Egyptian, Palestinian and Israeli populations, using health and science as a bridge between different populations in the Mideast, Africa and Asia. Dr. Deckelbaum has chaired task forces for the American Heart Association and the March of Dimes, and has served on advisory committees of the National Institutes of Health, RAND Corporation, and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He is widely published in medical and scientific journals such as Biochemistry, the Journal of Biological Chemistry and Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, and is a regular author in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Research Interests
Human plasma lipoproteins and the cellular effects of dietary fats and free fatty acids
Nutrition with risk factors of cardiovascular disease in children
Molecular biology of intestinal parasites with clinical and epidemiological manifestations of infection with emphasis on chronic diarrhea and malnutrition
Education and Training
B.Sc., McGill University
M.D., McGill University
Residency, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hadassah Hospital, McGill University
Residency, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Boston University
