Darwin Deen, MD, MS

Dr. Darwin Deen is a nationally-recognized family physician who has been studying and teaching nutrition for thirty years. He is Professor of Clinical Family and Social Medicine and Director of Medical Student Education in the Department of Family and Social Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He is co-author of the Whole Grain Diet Miracle and Nutrition For Life, and is currently serving as Editor-In-Chief of the Complete Guide to Nutrition in Primary Care, to be published in 2007.

Dr. Deen believes that physicians must become role models to help patients improve their health by making significant diet and lifestyle changes. Dr. Deen incorporates nutrition into his practice of family medicine on a daily basis and recognizes the positive role that healthy eating and exercise play in preventing many medical problems.

Dr. Deen grauated from the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture at the University of New Hampshire where he began studying the science of nutrition. Noting that most physicians in the US are inadequately prepared in nutrition, Dr. Deen decided that his life's work would be to teach nutrition to physicians. He obtained a Masters of Science degree from the Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons and then an MD degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He began teaching nutrition to medical students while still a student himself. He completed a Family Medicine Residency at Montefiore Medical Center's Residency Program in Social Medicine, where he developed nutrition curriculum for primary care residents.

Beginning in 1986, Dr. Deen became the Director of the Regional Nutrition Center at the New York Academy of Medicine where he helped to create a consortium of medical school faculty dedicated to improving nutrition education in the medical schools in New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia. From 1998-2003 he served as co-investigator for the Nutrition Academic Award Program at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, a federally funded program to improve the nutrition teaching throughout the 21 medical schools funded by the program.

Dr. Deen has received national recognition and numerous awards for his dedication to teaching nutrition. He is well published and his editorial experience is extensive. He recently served on an Obesity Expert Panel of the American Academy of Family Physicians and serves as the nutrition expert on the editorial Board of the AAFP journal: American Family Physician. He co-edited the Physician's Curriculum in Clinical Nutrition: Primary Care, published by The Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Group on Nutrition, and is associate editor on the 3rd edition of Medical Nutrition and Disease, from Blackwell Publishing.

Darwin Deen, MD, MS
Director of Medical Student Education
Professor of Clinical Family and Social Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1300 Morris Park Avenue
Bronx, New York 10461

For Dr. Deen's PowerPoint presentations: http://www.aecom.yu.edu/family/ugdeenpresents.htm