ASN Fellows
To be inducted as a Fellow of the American Society for Nutrition (FASN) is the highest honor that the Society bestows. Scientists who have had distinguished careers in the field of nutrition and are at least sixty-five years of age are eligible for consideration.
ASN Class of 2023 Fellows
The ASN Class of 2023 Fellows will be honored at the Fellows, Past Presidents, and 50-Year Member Luncheon held on Sunday, July 23 from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM at the Sheraton Boston during ASN’s annual flagship meeting, NUTRITION 2023. Members of this year’s class join more than 500 other ASN Fellows who have been recognized since the program began in 1952.
Learn more about 2023 Scientific Achievement AwardsAlan Berg
World Bank (global nutrition advocate)
Steven K. Clinton, MD, PhD
Ohio State University
Luigi De Luca, PhD
Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Nicolaas Deutz, MD, PhD
Texas A&M University, Center for Translational Research in Aging and Longevity
Jo Freudenheim, PhD, MS, RD
University at Buffalo
Mary Ann Johnson, PhD
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Carl Keen, PhD
University of California, Davis
Mark Levine, MD
National Institutes of Health
Joel Mason, MD
Tufts University
Richard Mattes, MPH, PhD, RD
Purdue University
Marian Neuhouser, PhD, RD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Ngozi Nnam, PhD
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Stephen O’Keefe, MBBS, MSc, MD
University of Pittsburgh and University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Juan Rivera, PhD
INSP: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, México
Dennis Savaiano, PhD
Purdue University
Daniel Tomé, PhD
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Meet the ASN Class of 2023 Fellows
Past Fellows
2022 Fellows
Steven Abrams, MD
Peter Aggett, MSc, MBChB
Susan Fried, PhD
Angel Gil, PhD
Donald Jump, PhD
Gregory D. Miller, PhD
Rachel Novotny, PhD, RDN
José Ordovas, PhD
Pamela Pehrsson, PhD
Aryeh Stein, PhD
June Stevens, PhD
Linda Tapsell, PhD
Nancy Turner, PhD
Xiang-Dong Wang, MD, PhD
2021 Fellows
Rebecca Costello, PhD
Teresa Davis, PhD
Ralph Green, MD PhD
Rachel Johnson, PhD, RD
Samuel Klein, MD
Martin Kohlmeier, MD PhD
Mary L’Abbé, PhD
Michael McBurney, PhD
David McCarron, MD
Neil Shay, PhD
Helmut Sies, MD
Maret Traber, PhD
Katherine Tucker, PhD
Susan Carlson
Michael Clandinin
2020 Fellows
Margaret (Peggy) Bentley
Robert A. Burns
Naomi Fukagawa
Catherine A. Geissler
Harry Lee Greene
William Harris
Fatma Huffman
Mindy Kurzer
Daniel J. Raiten
Sachiko St. Jeor
Judith Storch
Mary Story• Roger A. Sunde
Bruce A. Watkins
Keith West
2019 Fellows
Michele Forman
Douglas Heimburger
Michael F. Holick
Gordon L. Jensen
Nancy Krebs
Shiriki Kumanyika
Simin Meydani
Alanna Moshfegh
Denise Ney
Andrew Prentice
Jon Story
2018 Fellows
Kathryn Dewey
Michael Gibney
Eileen Kennedy
David Klurfeld
Alice Lichtenstein
Judith Marlett
Eric Ravussin
Linda Adair
Bruce Ames
Patsy Brannon
Nancy Butte
2017 Fellows
Roger A. Clemens
Gerald Combs, Jr.
Susan J. Fairweather-Tait
Katherine M. Flegal
James O. Hill
Kathryn M. Kolasa
Christine L. Taylor
Malcolm Watford
Steven Zeisel
Raymond Burk
2016 Fellows
Janet Greger
Jesse Gregory
Guy Johnson
Allen Levine
Bernadette Marriott
Barry Shane
Virginia Stallings
Robert Suskind
Connie Weaver
George Fahey
2015 Fellows
Benjamin Caballero
Mark Failla
Pamela Fraker
Barbara Hansen
Penny Kris-Etherton
Bo Lönnerdal
Martha Stipanuk
Ricardo Uauy
Richard Atkinson
Diane Birt
2014 Fellows
Lynn Bailey
Adam Drewnowski, PhD
David Heber, MD, PhD
Van Hubbard
Joseph R. Prohaska
Kathleen Rasmussen
Beatrice Rogers
Barbara Schneeman
Dale A. Schoeller
Allison A. Yates
2013 Fellows
Kenneth Brown
Paul Coates
Cutberto Garza
Reynaldo Martorell
Linda Meyers
John Milner
Catharine Ross
Jacob Selhub
Allen Taylor
Catherine Woteki
2012 Fellows
Lindsay Allen
Stephanie Atkinson
Lynne Ausman
Stephen Barnes
Adrianne Bendich
Werner Bergen
Jere D. Haas
Mohsen Meydani
2011 Fellows
Leann Birch
Peggy Borum
Robert Cousins
John Erdman
Frank Greer
Sooja Kim
Roy Martin
Barbara Rolls
Walter Willet
2010 Fellows
Gary Beauchamp
Jeffrey Blumberg Fergus Clydesdale
Richard Deckelbaum
Olle Hernell
Errol Marliss
Michael Pariza
Barry Popkin
Judith Stern
2009 Fellows
Margaret Cheney
William Dietz
Osman Galal
MRC Greenwood
Gail Harrison
Steven Heymsfield
Joanne Lupton
Noel Solomons
W Allan Walker
Elizabeth Yetley
2008 Fellows
D’Ann Finley
K.C. Hayes
David Jenkins
Ronald Krauss
Roland Leach
Forrrest Nielsen
Paul Pencharz
2007 Fellows
Richard Allison
Gladys Block
Junshi Chen
G. Harvey Anderson
Dennis Bier
Claude Bouchard
William Flatt
Rosalind Gibson
Janet King
Harriet Kuhnlein
Suzanne Murphy
Dale Romsos
Robert Russell
2006 Fellows
Barbara Harland
Joel Kopple
Orville Levander
Harry Mersmann
Charlotte Neumann
Gretel Pelto
Robert Rucker
2005 Fellows
David Baker
Bruce Bistrian
Elsworth Buskirk
Elizabeth Davis
Peter Furst
Leif Hambraeus
Joseph Hautvast
Melvin Mathias
Fernando Monckeberg
Marion Nestle
2004 Fellows
Billy Baumgardt
George Blackburn
Johanna Dwyer
Charles Elson
Jean Hankin
William Heird
Lennart Krook
Anthony Norman
Wilson Pond
2003 Fellows
David H. Alpers
Peter Greenwald
William E. Lands
George M. Owen
Quinton R. Rogers
Patricia B. Swan
Judith R. Turnlund
Fernando E. Viteri
Richard Wurtman
Vernon R. Young
2002 Fellows
Phyllis B. Acosta
Ransom L Baldwin IV
Carolyn D Berdanier
James D Cook
Jacqueline L Dupont
Walter H. Glinsmann
Charles Halsted
Leslie M. Klevay
Rachel A. Schemmel
Ethan Allen Sims
2001 Fellows
Jean Pierre Habicht
Margit Hamosh
Elaine Monsen
Xavier Pi Sunyer
Irwin Rosenberg
James C Smith
Louis Sullivan
Milton L. Sunde
William Thomas
Myron Winick
2000 Fellows
Kenneth Fisher
K. Michael Hambidge
Paul Lachance
Gilbert A. Leveille
Donald B. McCormick
Richard S. Rivlin
John W. Suttie
Barbara A. Underwood
Stanley Wallach
1999 Fellows
Andre Bensadoun
David Baird Coursin
Carlos Krumdieck
John Longenecker
George V. Mann
Paul Saltman
James Headon Shaw
Earl Shrago
Joseph John Vitale
Maija H. Zile
1998 Fellows
Hamilton Eaton
Peter Hahn
James Iacono
G. Richard Jansen
Norge Winifred Jerome
Fred A. Kummerow
Lawrence J. Machlin
Paul Baker McCay
Sanford A. Miller
Harold Sandstead
Conrad Wagner
1997 Fellows
George Bray
Lieber Charles
John Coniglio
Jack Cooperman
Leon Ellenbogen
Richard Freedland
Charles Richard Grau
John Kinney
M. Daniel Lane
Michael Latham
James G. Morris
Malden Nesheim
Buford L. Nichols
Alex Roche
1996 Fellows
Kiyoshi Ashida
Lewis A. Barness
Arthur L. Black
Ratko Buzina
William E. Connor
Joaquim Cravioto
Hector F DeLuca
Harold H. Draper
Richard Havel
Sheldon Margen
1995 Fellows
George Beaton
Cecile Edwards
Allan Forbes
Stanley Gershoff
Charles Hill
Stanley Levenson
Juan Navia
Duane Ullrey
Peter Van Soest
Elsie Widdowson
1994 Fellows
Ernest Beutler
Felix Bronner
Mary Carpenter
Hans Fisher
Paul Griminger
Avanelle Kirksey
Robert Neal
Ananda Prasad
Joyce Beare Rogers
Daniel Rudman
1993 Fellows
Virginia A. Beal
Charles S. Davidson
Stanley M. Garn
Robert P. Heaney
Victor Herbert
Jules Hirsch
Robert E. Hodges
Henry C. McGill
Donald S. McLaren
Al Mendelof
1992 Fellows
Abraham E. Axelrod
Myrtle Brown
Kenneth K. Carroll
Elaine B. Feldman
Norman Kretchmer
Kenneth P. McConnell
Gerhard Plaut
John R. Schubert
Al Tappel
Robert H. Wasserman
1991 Fellows
Aaron Altschul
Halvor Niels Christensen
Frank Chytil
George Graham
Helen Guthrie
Irvin E. Liener
Robert O. Nesheim
Raymond Reiser
William Shive
Eleanor Young
1990 Fellows
Charles E. Butterworth
Kenneth J. Carpenter
John E. Halver
Paul M. Newberne
James E. Oldfield
James A. Olson
Marion F. Robinson
Daphne A. Roe
Samuel B. Tove
Willard J. Visek
1989 Fellows
Doris Howes Calloway
Gerald F. Combs
Samuel J. Fomon
Norman L. Jacobson
Walter Mertz
Hugh Sinclair
Herta Spencer
Marian Swendseid
George Wolf
Donald B. Zilversmit
1988 Fellows
Guillermo Arroyave
Dena Cederquist
James S. Dinning
Clement A. Finch
Richard M. Forbes
Douglas V. Frost
Alfred E Harper
Lucille S. Hurley
Fred H. Mattson
Philip L. White
1987 Fellows
Stanley R. Ames
Lloyd J. Filer
R. Gaurth Hansen
F. Howard Kratzer
Willard A. Krehl
David Kritchevsky
Ruth L. Pike
Robert E. Shank
Maurice E. Shils
Theodore Van Itallie
1986 Fellows
John G. Bieri
George M. Briggs
Harry P. Broquist
LaVell Henderson
Ralph T. Holman
B. Connor Johnson
Jean Mayer
Robert E. Olson
Howerde E. Sauberlich
Milton L. Scott
1985 Fellows
Roslyn B. Alfin-Slater
Franklin C. Bing
Alexander Campbell
Fredric Hill
Max Milner
Alvin L. Moxon
Boyd L. O’Dell
Helen G. Oldham
Arnold E. Schaefer
Nevin S. Scrimshaw
1984 Fellows
George O. Burr
William J. Darby
R. W. Engel
D. Mark Hegsted
Ruth L. Huenemann
Herbert P. Sarett
Howard A. Schneider
Stanley S Slinger
1983 Fellows
Herbert R. Bird
Helen M. Linkswiler
John K Loosli
Olaf Mickelsen
Hamish N. Munro
Neige Todhunter
Andre van Veen
Harold H. Williams
Maxwell M. Wintrobe
Lemuel D. Wright
1982 Fellows
Harry G. Day
Karl Folkers
Max K. Horwitt
Esmond Snell
Madelyn Womack
1981 Fellows
George K. Davis
Paul B. Pearson
Fredrick J. Stare
E.L.Robert Stokstad
Harry M. Vars
1980 Fellows
Carl A. Baumann
Herbert E. Carter
Gladys A. Emerson
James M. Orten
1979 Fellows
Helen E. Clark
Robert S Harris
Max O. Schultze
1978 Fellows
R. H. Barnes
O. Lee Kline
Harold S. Olcot
1977 Fellows
Arthur R. Kemmerer
Ruth M. Leverton
Pearl P. Swanson
1976 Fellows
C. M. Coons
E. T. Mertz
C. A. Storvick
1975 Fellows
Mildred Adams
F. S. Doft
Ancel Keys
1974 Fellows
C. P. Berg
E. S. Eppright
G. A. Goldsmith
1973 Fellows
Lela E. Booher
W. B. Castle
T. H. Jukes Jukes
1972 Fellows
E.S. Nasset
M. E. Ohlson
M. S. Reynolds
1971 Fellows
T. S. Hamilton
Ruth Okey
James Waddell
1970 Fellows
Paul L Day
Charles N. Frey
Harold M. Scott
1969 Fellows
S. K. Kon
Karl E. Mason
Bernard L. Oser
1968 Fellows
Herman J. Almquist
Paul H. Phillips
Henry Sebrell, Jr.
1967 Fellows
Georgian Adams
Earle W. Crampton
L. Emmett Holt
1966 Fellows
Max Kleiber
Samuel Lepkovsky
John B. Youmans
1965 Fellows
Paul György
Genevieve Stearns
Raymond W. Swift
1964 Fellows
J. B. Brown
Henrik Dam
Hazel K. Stiebeling
1963 Fellows
Wendell H. Griffith
C. Glen King
Leo C. Norris
1962 Fellows
J. S. Hughes
Lydia J. Roberts
W. D. Salmon
1961 Fellows
R. Adams Dutcher
Helen T. Parsons
Arthur H. Smith
1960 Fellows
Icie Macy Hoobler
Paul E. Howe
Leonard A. Maynard
1959 Fellows
Albert G. Hogan
Agnes Fay Morgan
William C. Rose
1958 Fellows
Thorne M. Carpenter
George R. Cowgill
Eugene F. DuBois
Ernest B. Forbes
Casimir Funk
Elmer V. McCollum
Harold H. Mitchell
John R. Murlin
Harry Steenbock
Robert R. Williams
Application Portal has closed for the ASN Class of 2023 Fellows!
APPLICATION WEBSITE: ASN Foundation Portal
APPLICATION DEADLINE WAS: January 18th, 2023
Applications should be submitted by the individual interested in being considered for the ASN Class of 2023 Fellows.
The ASN Class of 2023 Fellows will be honored at NUTRITION 2023, ASN’s annual meeting which will be held July 22-25, 2023.
The deadline for applications is January 18th, 2023.
Any questions, please contact awards@nutrition.org.
Click here to download a PDF detailing ASN Class of 2022 Eligibility and Guidelines.
Application and Selection Process
All applications must be submitted via the ASN Foundation Portal. Incomplete or late applications will not be considered. Applications will be retained for 2 years. Applications received will be considered for 2023 and 2024 Fellows selection. Confidential selection juries are appointed each year. Juries rate the candidates based on the award criteria.
Eligibility
Applicants must:
- Be a scientist who has had a distinguished career in the field of nutrition
- Be at least sixty-five years of age
Applicant Guidelines
The following information will be required during the submission process. Please note that ASN recommends the application information first be written and saved in a Word document and then copied and pasted into the appropriate boxes during the application process.
Applicant’s contact information
Letter(s) of support author contact information
Application information:
- Letter(s) of support (maximum of 2 letters) to address the following:
- Impact of applicant’s contributions to the field
- Demonstrated excellence and/or commitment
- Reputation in the nutrition science/practice/education community
- Curriculum vitae of the applicant
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