David Alpers, M.D.
David Alpers is the William B. Kountz Professor of Medicine in Geriatrics,
Co-Director of the Center for Human Nutrition, and Pilot and Feasibility Program
Director for the CNRU at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis. He also serves as co-director of the Nutrition Support Service at
Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St Louis. Dr.
Alpers received his MD degree from Harvard Medical School, and his house staff
training in Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston,
MA. After two years as a research
associate at the National Institutes of Health he completed a fellowship in
Gastroenterology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and was a junior faculty
member at Harvard Medical School for 5 years. He was the chief of the GI Division at Washington University Scbool
of Medicine from 1969-1996. Since
1998 he has served as the co-director of the Center for Human Nutrition, and
director of the pilot & feasibility studies of the Washington University
CNRU. In addition, since 1998 he has served part time as a senior consultant
to R&D (gastrointestinal, pain, and anti-inflammatory drug development)
for GlaxoSmithKline.
Dr. Alpers served the American Gastroenterological Association
as chair of the Research Committee, director of the Undergraduate Teaching
Project, and as President (1990-91). In 1997 he was awarded the Friedenwald
medal by the AGA for a lifetime of contributions to the field of gastroenterology.
He has served as editor for the Am J Physiology Gastrointestinal and Liver
Physiol (1991-1997), and for the Small Intestine and Nutrition sections of
Current Opinion in Gastroenterology (1996-present). He was associate editor
of the J Clinical Investigation and of Annual Reviews of Nutrition, and is
currently associate editor of the Textbook ofGastroenterology (Lippincott
Williams & Wilkins, T. Yamada, editor in chief), now in its 4th edition.
He is senior author of the Manual of Nutritional Therapeutics (Lippincott
Williams & Wilkins, 4th edition). He served on the editorial board of
the J Biological Chemistry from 1998-2003.