David Allison#
| Membership Number: | 4587 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://publichealth.indiana.edu |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 August to present: Dean and Provost Professor, School of Public Health-Bloomington, Indiana University
- 2016, October to August 2017: Associate Dean for Research & Science of the School of Health Professions, UAB
- 2011, July to 2017, July: Director, Nutrition Obesity Research Center, UAB
- 2011, July to 2017, July: Director, Office of Energetics, UAB
- 2011, July to 2016, September: Associate Dean for Science of the School of Public Health, UAB
- 2011, July to 2016, September: Distinguished Professor, Quetelet Endowed Professor of Public Health, UAB
- 2001, March to 2011, June: Professor of Biostatistics, Nutrition Sciences, Genetics, and Medicine, UAB
- 1999, April to 2001, March: Associate Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry), Columbia University
- 1998, December to 2001, June: Doctoral Program Subcommittee on Nutrition Member, Columbia University
- 1997, July to 2000: Assistant Professor (adjunct) of Psychology (in Psychiatry), University of Pennsylvania
- 1994, September to 1999, March: Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology (in Psychiatry), Columbia University
Fields of Scholarship
- Behavioral Medicine
- Biology
- Obesity
- Genetics
- Biostatistics
- Medical Psychology
- Research Methods
- Diabetes
- Nutrition
- Aging
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Invited to the White House by the Office of Science and Technology Policy to participate in symposium on STEM mentoring
- 2016 Recipient of the American College of Nutrition's Mark Bieber Professional Award
- 2016 Selected to deliver the Indiana University School of Medicine Corcoran Lecture and distinguished endowed lectureship
- 2015 Elected a Fellow of the American Heart Association, conferred by the Council of Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health
- 2015 Selected as Blackburn Lecturer, as a leader in Obesity Medicine, who gives a state-of-the-art lecture at Harvard
- 2014 Selected as Atwater Lecturer by the USDA and the American Society for Nutrition
- 2014 Elected as a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine
- 2014 Awarded the F1000 Faculty Member of the Year for the Diabetes & Endocrinology Faculty
- 2012 Elected to National Academy of Medicine (former the Institute of Medicine) of the United States National Academies
- 2012 Elected to Fellowship in the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- 2009 Recipient of the TOPS Research Achievement Award from The Obesity Society
- 2009 Elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- 2008 Elected as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association
- 2007 Elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, given to no more than 1/3 of 1% of the membership annually
- 2007 Elected as a Fellow of the American Psychological Society
- 2006 Recipient of the Presidential Award for excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM)
- 2002 Recipient of the Andre Mayer Award from the International Association for the Study of Obesity, given once every four year
- 2002 Recipient of the Lilly Scientific Achievement Award from the North American Association for the Study of Obesity
