Dr. David Allison

David B. Allison is currently professor of biostatistics, head of the section on statistical genetics, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and director of the NIH-funded Clinical Nutrition Research Center. Previous positions held by Dr. Allison include a post-doctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a second post-doctoral fellowship at the NIH-funded New York Obesity Research Center at St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital Center. Dr. Allison was a research scientist at the NY Obesity Research Center and associate professor of medical psychology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons until 2001. He received his PhD from Hofstra University in 1990

Dr. Allison has authored over 300 scientific publications and edited five books. He has won several awards, including the 2002 Lilly Scientific Achievement Award from the North American Association for the Study of Obesity and the 2002 Andre Mayer Award from the International Association for the Study of Obesity and has been elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. He holds several NIH and NSF grants and has been a member of the Board of Trustees for the International Life Science Institute, North America, since January 2002. He is president-elect of NAASO and will become president in October 2009.