David B. Allison, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor in the School of Public Health and Quetelet Endowed Professor of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has been elected as a fellow of the American Heart Association, Council on Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health.
Election as a fellow of AHA recognizes an individual’s scientific and professional accomplishments and volunteer leadership and service. Fellowship is open to scientists, physicians, clinical professionals and academicians with a major and productive interest in nutrition, physical activity, obesity or diabetes.
Allison, who is also the associate dean for science in SOPH and the director of the Nutrition Obesity Research Center and Office of Energetics, received his Ph.D. from Hofstra University in 1990. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a second postdoctoral fellowship at the NIH-funded New York Obesity Research Center at St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Hospital Center. He joined the UAB faculty in 2001.
He has written more than 500 scientific publications and edited five books. He has won several awards, including the 2002 Lilly Scientific Achievement Award from The Obesity Society, the 2002 Andre Mayer Award from the International Association for the Study of Obesity, and the National Science Foundation Administered 2006 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring.
He was elected as a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2007, the American Psychological Association in 2008, the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2009, the NY Academy of Medicine in 2014 and the Gerontological Society of America in 2014, and was inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars in 2013. He holds several NIH grants, including one of the Common Fund’s NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award titled “Energetics, Disparities & Lifespan: A unified hypothesis.”