Bruce Bistrian

Nutrition/Infection Laboratory, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, United States of America

Bruce Bistrian, M.D., Ph.D.

Academic positions:
- Chief of Clinical Nutrition, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

All industry positions (in last five years):
None declared

Research interests:
- Protein calorie malnutrition, its pathophysiology and assessment
- Cytokine biology,
- The nutritional support of critically ill patients

Any other information:
Dr Bistrian is the former President of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, Past President of the American Society for Clinical Nutrition, and member of the Board of Directors and President-Elect of the Federation of American Society for Experimental Biology.

He serves on the editorial boards of Critical Care Medicine, Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, Harvard Health Letter, and the Women's Health Watch. He formerly served on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Nutrition Reviews, Journal of Nutrition, Journal of the American College of Nutrition, and Obesity and Behavior.

Dr Bistrian's honors include:
Phi Beta Kappa
Army Commendation Medal
Sigma Xi
Scientific Research Society of America

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Faculty Member: Gastroenterology & Hepatology > Clinical Nutrition (since 11 November 2005)

Links

http://nutrition.med.harvard.edu/index.html

All recent recommendations

• 6.4
  Benefits and risks of tight glucose control in critically ill adults: a meta-analysis.
  Recommended by Bruce Bistrian, Ian Herrick
  
• 3.2
  Current practice in nutritional support and its association with mortality in septic patients--results from a national, prospective, multicenter study.
  Recommended by Bruce Bistrian, Jean-Charles Preiser
  
• 4.8
  Omega-3 free fatty acids for the maintenance of remission in Crohn disease: the EPIC Randomized Controlled Trials.
  Recommended by Jon Markowitz, Bruce Bistrian
  
• 8.3
  Probiotic prophylaxis in predicted severe acute pancreatitis: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.
  Recommended by Jan De Waele, Ingvar Bjarnason, Bruce Bistrian, Dhiraj Yadav
  
• 3.0
  Efficacy of antioxidant supplementation in reducing primary cancer incidence and mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis.
  Recommended by Bruce Bistrian
  
• 3.0
  Reevaluation of the protein requirement in young men with the indicator amino acid oxidation technique.
  Recommended by Bruce Bistrian
  
• 8.0
  Effects of bariatric surgery on mortality in Swedish obese subjects.
  Recommended by Bruce Bistrian, Lauren Gerson
  
• 3.0
  Fish consumption, n-3 fatty acids, and subsequent 5-y cognitive decline in elderly men: the Zutphen Elderly Study.
  Recommended by Bruce Bistrian
  
• 4.8
  Intensive intraoperative insulin therapy versus conventional glucose management during cardiac surgery: a randomized trial.
  Recommended by Bruce Bistrian, Jean-Charles Preiser
  
• 6.5
  A placebo-controlled trial of pioglitazone in subjects with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.
  Recommended by Bruce Bistrian, Marie Piquet, Stefano Bellentani
  
• 6.4
  Overweight, obesity, and mortality in a large prospective cohort of persons 50 to 71 years old.
  Recommended by Bruce Bistrian, Gunter Stalla
  
• 3.0
  Survival benefits of intensive insulin therapy in critical illness: impact of maintaining normoglycemia versus glycemia-independent actions of insulin.
  Recommended by Bruce Bistrian
  
• 3.0
  Reductions in portion size and energy density of foods are additive and lead to sustained decreases in energy intake.
  Recommended by Bruce Bistrian