Cardiovascular Pharmacology: Open Access

Refaat A Hegazi

Biography

Dr. Hegazi is a graduate of Mansoura University Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura, Egypt in 1989. He had a Master of Occupational Health and Industrial Medicine, Mansoura University Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura, Egypt in 1995, a Master of Public Health, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh in 1998 and PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health University of Pittsburgh in 2002. He is certified by the American Board of Physician Nutrition Specialist in 2001. His research was funded by both the Cancer Research Foundation of America and the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America. Authored over twenty peer-reviewed publications and three book chapters. In 2006, Dr. Hegazi joined the Clinical Faculty at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. He then joined Abbott Nutrition as Medical Director of Adult Nutrition in February 2009. 

Research Interest

Gastroenterology; Nutrition and Dietetics; Nutritional Biochemistry; Diabetes; Clinical Nutrition; Nutrition and Exercise Performance; Nutritional Medicine; Inflammatory Bowel Disease