Meet Our Expert Team
Find Your Care
Our specialists help you prevent and manage health conditions and meet your goals with individualized, expert nutritional care. For help finding clinical nutrition care, call 310-825-7921. To reach the Medical Weight Management Program, please call 310-825-8173.
Improving Health for All
The UCLA Division of Clinical Nutrition is home to the research of internationally-renown scientists who are forging bold new paths in nutritional and lifestyle medicine. Our faculty collaborate with scientists throughout UCLA and at leading institutions around the world to conduct groundbreaking studies on issues in nutritional health, from gene-nutrition interactions and nutritional biochemistry to cancer. They frequently translate their findings from the bench to the bedside in clinical trials that move the field forward.
Leadership
Zhaoping Li, MD, PhD
Vijaya Surampudi, MD, MS
Gail Thames
Emeritus Faculty
Research Faculty
Devesha Kulkarni, PhD
Jieping Yang, PhD
Clinical Faculty
Registered Dietitian
Research Staff
Postdoctoral Researchers
Lab Staff