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Clinical Nutrition Research
Key Insights into Patient Nutrition Support
For many decades, The Division of Clinical Nutrition has been engaged in pioneering research to advance knowledge in the field of nutrition. The goal of their research is to improve the safe delivery of nutrition care to patients, ensuring that every patient receives the most effective and appropriate support possible. Bruce Bistrian, MD, PhD, MPH, serves as chief of the Division and consistently produces impactful publications. Per research.com, Dr. Bistrian has a D-Index of 96 with more than 36,500 citations and 692 publications. In PubMed, there are 576 publications noted with Dr. Bistrian as an author or co-author with 15 publications in the last two years. He is engaged in analysis and write-ups of work previously conducted and he works with data sets from other former co-investigators. He also writes textbooks, chapters, and reviews; He recently published an article in Harrison's Textbook of Medicine that provides a major review of what he gleaned over many years of clinical work.
His particular focus recently has been in study of the potential modification of an over exuberant systemic response to inflammation as exemplified by the cytokine storm reaction sometimes complicating COVID-19 infection or a cytokine release syndrome following CAR T cell therapy using purified fish oil-based emulsions as potential anti-inflammatory therapy. This research is carried out with a former member of the Division of Clinical Nutrition, David Driscoll PhD, PharmD. Other work investigating the pathogenesis and management of severe iron deficiency following bariatric surgery is being conducted with a former fellow of the Division and former faculty member in the Department of Surgery, Peter Benotti, MD. Finally, investigating the role of omega 3 fatty acids in the modulation of cardiac structure and function has been per-formed with Francine Welty MD, PhD, a former faculty member in the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine. Dr. Bistrian is in his 40th year serving on the Institutional Review Board, first at the New England Deaconess Hospital and subsequently at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Publications
Dr. Bistrian and his co-investigators have authored numerous studies and papers over the years.
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