Professor of Pediatrics; Chief of the Part of Developmental Diet – Division of Pediatrics
At Arkansas Kids’s Analysis Institute, Dr. Mario Ferruzzi serves because the Director of the Arkansas Kids’s Diet Heart, a partnership between USDA-Agricultural Analysis Service and ACRI with a analysis give attention to maternal-child diet and bodily exercise in optimizing well being and growth. He acquired his BS in Chemistry from Duke College and Ph.D. in Meals Science and Diet from The Ohio State College. Earlier than coming to ACRI, Dr. Ferruzzi served as a David H. Murdock Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State College’s Vegetation for Human Well being Institute. Presently throughout the UAMS Division of Pediatrics, he’s a Professor and Chief of the Part of Developmental Diet. Dr. Ferruzzi additionally holds the Arkansas Kids’s Endowed Chair in Digestive Illness & Diet Analysis.
Dr. Ferruzzi’s analysis pursuits interface agriculture, meals, and diet sciences within the research of micronutrient and phytochemical bioavailability, metabolism and impression on human well being. He focuses on methods that may be leveraged to enhance meals merchandise’ dietary and practical high quality for at-risk populations. His major efforts have centered on the characterization of plant meals, together with exploring the chemistries and functionalities of bioactive phytochemicals and micronutrients. His group has emphasised finding out how meals formulation and processing impression the bioavailability, metabolism, and potential dietary and well being impacts of phytochemicals and micronutrients. Dr. Ferruzzi’s efforts have acquired constant analysis assist from federal, foundational and business sources. His efforts embrace important worldwide meals and diet analysis and translational collaborations with main tutorial and authorities analysis facilities and establishments in Italy, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Senegal, and South Africa.
Dr. Ferruzzi serves on the USDA’s Nationwide Agricultural Analysis, Extension, Schooling, and Economics (NAREEE) Advisory Board offering perception into meals and agriculture analysis priorities. He additionally guides key stakeholder teams, together with meals producers and associations, on the interface of meals and diet sciences and creating and assessing meals merchandise. He’s an expert member of the Institute of Meals Technologists, the American Society for Diet, the American Chemical Society, the Institute for the Development of Meals and Diet Sciences, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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