Jean Andrews Distinguished Professor 2023

 Jamy Ard, MD

Dr. Jamy Ard is a Professor and Interim Associate Dean for Research at Wake Forest School of Medicine. He also serves as the Director of Participant Clinical Interaction for the Wake Forest Clinical and Translational Science Institute, as well as Co-Director of the Wake Forest Baptist Health Weight Management Center. Dr. Ard is a nationally and internationally recognized leader in obesity research and treatment. Dr. Ard's clinical research is focused on studying strategies to treat obesity in adults using a variety of state-of-the-art approaches, ranging from surgery and medications to lifestyle therapy with remote monitoring. His approach to treatment is highly informed by his research, which includes asking relevant research questions that expand how we treat obesity. Dr. Ard is particularly interested in treating adults who either suffer from obesity disparities or where obesity treatment is particularly challenging. This includes individuals from ethnic minority groups, older adults, and those with severe obesity. In the clinic, he is also exploring how to use new obesity treatments to improve the control or bring about the resolution of chronic diseases like type 2 diabetes. Dr. Ard is President-elect of The Obesity Society.

Past Speakers

2022 Dr. Emily Oken		Dr. Emily Oken is a Professor in the Departments of Nutrition at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health and Population Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute.  Dr. Oken’s ground-breaking research examines the role of nutrition, toxicants, and other modifiable factors on pregnancy, early childhood, and long-term maternal and child health.
2021 Dr. Anne McTiernan		Dr. Anne McTiernan is an internist and epidemiologist at the University of Washington Schools of Public Health and Medicine. Her research is focused on the role of obesity, diet, and exercise on breast cancer risk and prognosis.
2019 Dr. Kevin Hall		Dr. Kevin Hall is the Integrative Physiology Section Chief and a Senior Investigator in the Laboratory of Biological Modeling at the National Institutes of Health. He is a nationally and internationally recognized expert in the factors that regulate energy balance.
2018 Dr. Rob Knight		Dr. Rob Knight is a Professor at the University of California, San Diego. A world leader in gut microbiomes, he is the co-founder of the American Gut Project and the Earth Microbiome Project.
2017 Dr. Edward Giovanucci		Dr. Edward Giovanucci is a Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He spoke about nutritional, hormonal, and genetic factors related to various malignancies, especially those of the prostate and large bowel.
2016 Dr. Bruce Spiegelman		Dr. Bruce Spiegelman is the Stanley J. Korsmeyer Professor at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
2015 Dr. David Heber		Dr. David Heber is a Professor of Medicine and Public Health and Founding Chief of the Division of Clinical Nutrition in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.
2014 Dr. Randy Jirtle		Dr. Randy Jirtle is Professor of Epigenetics at the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Bedfordshire, Bedford, UK and a senior scientist at McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
2013 Dr. Walter Willett		Dr. Walter Willett is the Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health.
2012 Dr. John Milner		Dr. John Milner is Chief of the Nutritional Science Research Group in the Division of Cancer Prevention of the National Cancer Institute.

History of lectureship

The Jean Andrews Centennial Faculty Fellowship in Human Nutrition was established by the Board of Regents of The University of Texas System on June 17, 1983, for the benefit of the Department of Nutritional Sciences and the College of Natural Sciences. Gift funds were provided by Jean Andrews, Ph.D. of Austin, Texas, a 1944 graduate of The University of Texas at Austin College of Natural Sciences. 

 Dr. Jean Andrews