David S.  Ludwig , MD, PhD

Endocrinology

Medicine

nutrition

obesity

Endocrinology Program

Optimal Weight for Life (OWL) Program

TEDMED

Professor of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health

Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Pediatric Endocrinology

David S. Ludwig, MD, PhD is a practicing pediatrician and researcher at Childrens Hospital Boston. He holds the rank of Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health. Dr Ludwig is Founding Director of the Optimal Weight for Life (OWL) program at Children's Hospital, a multidisciplinary clinic for the care of overweight children. His research focuses on the effects of diet on hormones, metabolism and body weight. In particular, he has been developing a novel low glycemic diet (i.e., one that decreases the surge in blood sugar after meals) for the treatment of obesity and prevention of type 2 diabetes and heart disease. This work has been cited as providing a scientific basis for numerous popular diets, including The South Beach Diet, The Zone, SugarBusters, and The Glucose Revolution. Described as an obesity warrior by Time Magazine, Dr. Ludwig has fought for fundamental policy changes to restrict food advertising directed at young children, improve quality of school nutrition programs and increase insurance reimbursement for obesity prevention and treatment programs. Dr. Ludwig is a fellow of The Obesity Society and recipient of the E.V. McCollum Award (2008) of the American Society for Nutrition. He is Principal Investigator on numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health and has published over 100 scientific articles. Dr. Ludwig is author of a book on childhood obesity for parents entitled Ending the Food Fight: Guide Your Child to a Healthy Weight in a Fast Food/Fake Food World (Houghton Mifflin, 2007). He appears frequently in national print and broadcast media.

PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA  (1988)

MD, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA  (1990)

Pediatric Internship, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA  (1991)

Pediatric Residency, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA  (1993)

Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA  (1995)

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