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Samuel Klein, MD

William H. Danforth Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Science
Washington University School of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine
Saint Louis, Missouri, United States

Samuel Klein M.D. is the William Danforth Professor of Medicine, Director of the Center for Human Nutrition and Chief of the Division of Nutritional Science and Obesity Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Klein received an MD degree from Temple University Medical School, and an MS Degree in Nutritional Biochemistry and Metabolism from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He completed residency training in Internal Medicine and a Clinical Nutrition fellowship at Boston University Hospital, a Nutrition and Metabolism Research fellowship at Harvard Medical School, and a Gastroenterology fellowship at The Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, and Nutrition. He was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the American Association of Physicians, has had consistent R01 funding from the NIH since 1990 and published more than 500 papers in nutrition, metabolism, and obesity. He is also committed to training young investigators and clinicians in nutrition, metabolism and obesity and has provided mentorship to 54 trainees.

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