Christopher D. Gardner | |
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| Born | July 13, 1959 |
| Spouse | Melissa R. Michelson |
| Children | 4 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | B.A., Philosophy, 1981, Colgate University MA, PhD, Nutrition Science, 1993, University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Acculturation and cardiovascular disease risk factors in immigrant hispanic men (1993) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Website | https://med.stanford.edu/nutrition.html |
Christopher David Gardner (born July 13, 1959) is an American nutrition researcher. He is the director of nutrition studies at the Stanford Prevention Research Center and the Rehnborg Farquhar Professor of Medicine at Stanford University.
Gardner is involved with the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the American Heart Association (AHA). In 2019, he was co-author of updated nutrition guidelines for the ADA. He served as a member of the AHA's Nutrition Committee from 2009 to 2013, and in 2020 he was appointed as a member of the AHA Lifestyle & Metabolic Health Council, and to a leadership position in the AHA Nutrition Committee (2020-2026). He appeared in the 2024 Netflix documentary You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment, about his Stanford University twins study. Gardner is an advocate and researcher of plant-based dietary patterns.[1][2]
- ^ Hansen, Jamie (2022). "5 Questions with Dr. Christopher Gardner on tackling food and health disparities while saving the planet". Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health.
- ^ Moskal, Emily (November 30, 2023). "Twin research indicates that a vegan diet improves cardiovascular health". Retrieved December 2, 2023.