Director, Center for Human Nutrition，UCLA

Zhaoping Li, MD, PhD, is the director of the Center for Human Nutrition, chief of the Division of Clinical Nutrition, and a Lynda and Stewart Resnick Endowed Chair in Human Nutrition at David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Currently, she is the President of National Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists, the president of the World Association of Chinese Doctors in Clinical Nutrition, and a member of American Society for Nutrition Medical Nutrition Council.

For nearly three decades, Dr Li’s research interest has focused on translational research in the role of macronutrients and phytochemicals in the prevention and treatment of obesity-related chronic diseases. She has been a principal investigator for over 50 investigator-initiated National Institutes of Health– and industry-sponsored clinical trials and published over 150 peer-reviewed papers in journals such as JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and Journal of American Dietetic Association.