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Digestive Health Symposium - October 2005 - Bios
Leo Treyzon M.D.
University of California at Los Angeles
Dr. Treyzon received his undergraduate degree from the University of California Santa Barbara in Political Science. He completed his medical training at the University of California at San Diego. He pursued both internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Cedars Sinai Medical Center.
Currently, he is a fellow within the Division of Digestive Diseases and Clinical Instructor in the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Although his early research interests included novel therapeutics and diagnostic imaging in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, his current clinical and research interests are in the field of obesity and nutrition for digestive disease prevention, such as in colon cancer. He is a clinical trialist in the field of interventions for obesity. He pursues advanced clinical research training within the school of biomathematics at UCLA (with an emphasis on research methodology).
Daniel D. Gallaher, PhD
University of Minnesota
Daniel Gallaher is a Professor in Nutrition in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs in the College of Human Ecology at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include dietary influences on colon cancer and cholesterol metabolism, particularly dietary fiber, whole grains, cruciferous vegetables, and fat, as well as bile acid metabolism, and dietary treatment of diabetes and chronic pancreatitis.
He is a member of the University of Minnesota Cancer Center and the Center for Plants and Human Health. He has served on the editorial board for the Journal of Nutrition for over ten years. He has also served as Director of Graduate Studies in Nutrition at the University of Minnesota for four years. He is a member of the American Society for Nutritional Sciences, Institute of Food Technologists, and Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine.
He has a strong interest in the use of multimedia in teaching. He has received the Outstanding Teaching of the Year for 2002-2003 by the College of Agriculture, Food, and Environmental Sciences Student Board and the College of Human Ecology McFarland Creative Teaching Award.
Phyllis E. Bowen, PhD, RD
University of Illinois at Chicago
Dr. Bowen received her Ph.D. as well as her M.S. degree in nutrition from Cornell University. She received a B.S. degree from Iowa State University in Food Science. She was a faculty member in the Department of Human Foods and Nutrition at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University for six years and has been part of the faculty of the Department of Human Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Illinois for 22 years and is currently an Associate Professor. She has held various departmental assignments including Acting Head, Associate Head, Director of Graduate Studies and Coordinated Undergraduate Program Director and Director of the Nutrition and Metabolism Laboratory.
She has received several teaching awards for her undergraduate and graduate teaching. She is also serving as Assistant Dean of the College of Applied Health Sciences in charge of developing the Urban Allied Health Academy. She was founding member and associate director of the Functional Foods for Health Research Program, a joint campus program of the University of Illinois with over 90 faculty members and 28 industrial affiliates. She headed the clinical trials that formed the basis of the Ensure plus Fiber nutritional formulas and reformulation of Regular and Ensure plus Fiber (Ross Products Div, Abbot Labs). She is internationally known for human metabolism/function studies on carotenoids, lipids, and vitamin E with over 75 publications in the field. She is founding member and past chair of the Carotenoids Interaction Research Group was on the founding steering committee for the International Carotenoids Society. She has served on the Council for Research and Chair of the Research Dietetics Practice Group is not Professional Issues Delegate and on the Research Committee in the American Dietetics Association. Her current research interests include the human metabolism of carotenoids and dietary factors that produce/reduce oxidative stress. Her current projects include studies of the effect of tomato, lycopene, dried plum and vitamin E consumption on DNA damage and lipid peroxidation in patients with prostate cancer, diabetes or dyslipidemia.
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