Rehnborg Farquhar Professor Christopher Gardner

For more than 30 years, Christopher Gardner, Rehnborg Farquhar professor of medicine at Stanford and nutrition scientist, has studied what to consume and to avoid for optimal health and how best to motivate individuals to achieve healthy dietary behaviours. He currently serves on the US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee and is the chair of the American Heart Association’s Nutrition Committee. He has conducted and published dozens of human nutrition intervention trials, including trials of Mediterranean, Ketogenic, and Vegan diets and their effects on cardiometabolic health. Among his most cited studies are the A TO Z (JAMA 2007) and the DIETFITS (JAMA 2018) weight loss diet trials. He is currently working on personalised nutrition explorations with several colleagues, with a particular focus on the gut microbiome.