Dr. George J. Fuch's is a physician scientist with specialty training in pediatrics and subspecialty training in pediatric nutrition, pediatric gastroenterology, and pediatric infectious diseases. He joined LSU School of Medicine in 1986, on faculty at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences from 2001-2015 and joined the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in 2015 where he is currently a Professor in Pediatrics (CoM) as well as Epidemiology (CoPH) and previously Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs, Pediatrics and Chief of Pediatric GI. He was seconded and in residence at a research institute in Thailand and the iccdrb in Bangladesh for a 10-yr. continuous period from 1992-2001. While at the icddrb, he directed the Clinical Sciences Division, established and directed the Nutrition Programme, and was Interim Director of the Centre.
His areas of expertise include diarrheal disease, nutrition, low birth weight, and infection including the therapeutic and preventive interactions between micronutrients and infectious disease (diarrheal disease, pneumonia), and malnutrition. He has experience both as an investigator and director of research programs in child and maternal health and nutrition, clinical case management, community-based, program monitoring and evaluation, and operations and programmatic research. He has related to child and maternal health as well as nutrition policy through involvement with various health organizations including WHO, World Bank, NIH, USAID, UNICEF, American Academy of Pediatrics, and others. His work has been performed principally in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and United States.
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