David Heber, M.D., Ph.D., is a world-renowned expert in nutrition, leading the battle against the global obesity epidemic. An accomplished professor, he is also the founding director of the Center for Human Nutrition at UCLA. For the past 25 years, he has been one of the country’s leading anti-obesity and nutrition expert. Additionally, he is the Program Director and Principal Investigator, UCLA Clinical Nutrition Research Unit, Nutrition and Obesity Training Program, and Center for Dietary Supplements Research in Botanicals, all funded by the National Institutes of Health.
As a speaker, his expertise is much sought-after by audiences around the globe and he has appeared on national television and in newspapers, including CNN, NBC, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times.
Dr. Heber holds a B.S. in Chemistry, Magna Cum Laude, UCLA, 1969; M.D. Harvard Medical School, 1973; and Ph.D. in Physiology, University of California, 1978. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology and Metabolism by the American Board of Internal Medicine and in Clinical Nutrition by the American Board of Nutrition.*
Louis Ignarro, Ph.DNutrition and Scientific Advisory Boards.
Louis Ignarro, Ph.D., is a member of Herbalife's Nutrition and Scientific Advisory Boards (NAB, SAB). The NAB is made up of leading experts around the world in the fields of nutrition and health who educate and train Herbalife independent distributors on the principles of nutrition, physical activity and healthy lifestyle.The SAB advises the company on advancements in the field of nutrition science.
Ignarro has made exceptional contributions to science. His efforts were recognized with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1998 for his discovery of nitric oxide and its range of benefits to the human body. His work has since led to additional research by scientists around the globe on nitric oxide. After working with Herbalife to develop NiteworksTM, a dietary supplement designed to boost the body's own production of nitric oxide, Ignarro became a member of the Company's Scientific Advisory Board.
Ignarro is currently a distinguished professor of pharmacology at the UCLA School of Medicine's Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology in Los Angeles, which he joined in 1985. Before relocating to California, he was a professor of pharmacology at Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, for 12 years. Previously, Ignarro was a staff scientist, research department, for the pharmaceutical division of CIBA-GEIGY Corporation in New York.
Ignarro has published numerous articles on his research. In addition to the Nobel Prize, he also received the Basic Research Prize of the American Heart Association in 1998, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the advancement of cardiovascular science. That same year, he was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences and the following year, into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He is the founder of the Nitric Oxide Society, and founder and editor-in-chief of "Nitric Oxide Biology and Chemistry." Ignarro holds a B.S. in pharmacology, Columbia University, 1962, and a Ph.D. in pharmacology, University of Minnesota, 1966. He also received a postdoctoral fellowship in chemical pharmacology from National Institutes of Health in 1968.
Luigi Gratton, M.D., M.P.H.Vice President, Medical Affairs and Education
As vice president, medical affairs and education, Luigi Gratton, M.D. coordinates the strategic management and direction of Herbalife's Nutrition Advisory Board to ensure Distributors have a thorough understanding of products, ingredients and their benefits. In addition, he manages the day-to-day operations of the Medical Affairs and Education Department, assuring all Distributor and medical inquires receive a quick and accurate response.
Gratton, a physician specialist in family medicine and clinical physician at the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition in the risk factor obesity program, works closely with
Distributor trainers around the world to ensure the dissemination of accurate product information. He also speaks at major Herbalife events, enhancing Distributors' knowledge about Herbalife products.
He has written numerous articles on nutrition and obesity and has appeared on television speaking on nutrition anti-aging medicine, sports nutrition and other medical topics.
Gratton earned an undergraduate degree in science and a masters in public health from University of California, Los Angeles. He was awarded a medical degree from Mount Sinai Medical School of New York University and fulfilled his residency in family medicine at Los Angeles County Hubert Humphrey Family Medicine Center. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in clinical nutrition at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Gratton has been awarded Diplomate of The American Board of Family Practice and The American Board of Physician Nutrition.
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