Distinguished Fellows of the American Society for Nutrition (DFASN)

The Distinguished Fellow of the American Society for Nutrition (DFASN) program was established in 1952 as the highest honor that the Society bestows for notable lifetime achievements.

This recognition program has been elevated for 2025 to recognize and pay tribute to the lifetime achievements of outstanding scientists who have had distinguished careers in the field of nutrition. 

To date, the program has recognized more than 500 scientists who have had distinguished careers in the field of nutrition. Applicants must be scientists who have had a distinguished career in the field of nutrition and be at least thirty years of membership with ASN and from completion of their terminal degree.  

ASN Class of 2025 Distinguished Fellows

The ASN Class of 2025 Distinguished Fellows will be honored at the Distinguished Fellows, Past Presidents, and 50-Year Member Luncheon held in Orlando, FL during ASN’s annual flagship meeting, NUTRITION 2025. Members of this year’s class joined more than 500 other ASN Distinguished Fellows who have been recognized since the program began in 1952.

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Martha A. Belury, PhD, RD

The Ohio State University

Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, PhD

Hospital for Sick Children, Canada 

Wayne W. Campbell, PhD

Purdue University  

Cindy D. Davis, PhD

Agricultural Research Service, USDA 

Sharon M. Donovan, PhD, RD

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

Marta L. Fiorotto, PhD

Baylor College of Medicine 

Khursheed N. Jeejeebhoy, MBBS, PhD

University of Toronto, Canada 

Michael D. Jensen, MD

Mayo Clinic

Dwight E. Matthews, PhD

University of Vermont 

Michelle K. McGuire, PhD

University of Idaho 

Joshua W. Miller, PhD

Rutgers University – New Brunswick 

Naima Moustaid-Moussa, PhD

Texas Tech University 

Jack Odle, PhD

North Carolina State University

Nadine R. Sahyoun, PhD, RD

University of Maryland 

Sue A. Shapses, PhD, RD

Rutgers University – New Brunswick 

Rafael Perez-Escamilla, PhD

Yale University

Edward Saltzman, MD

Tufts University 

Robert J. Shulman, MD

Baylor College of Medicine 

Marie T. Ruel, PhD

International Food Policy Research Institute


David S. Seres, MD, SM

Columbia University Medical Center 

Janos Zempleni, PhD

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Meet the ASN Class of 2024 Distinguished Fellows

Past Distinguished Fellows


2024 Distinguished Fellows

Mona S. Calvo, PhD
Robert S. Chapkin, PhD
Elvira de Mejía, PhD
Earl H. Harrison, PhD
Christiani Jeyakumar Henry, PhD
Paul F. Jacques, DSc
Donald K. Layman, PhD
Harris R. Lieberman, PhD
Eric L. Lien, PhD
J. Alfredo Martínez Hernández, PhD, PharmD, MD
Luis A. Mejía, PhD
John R. Speakman, PhD, DSc
Valerie Tarasuk, PhD
Nimbe Torres, MSc, PhD
Armando R. Tovar, PhD



2023 Distinguished Fellows

Jo Freudenheim, PhD, MS, RD
Mary Ann Johnson, PhD
Carl Keen, PhD
Mark Levine, MD
Alan Berg
Steven K. Clinton, MD, PhD
Luigi De Luca, PhD
Nicolaas Deutz, MD, PhD
Joel Mason, MD
Richard Mattes, MPH, PhD, RD
Marian Neuhouser, PhD, RD
Ngozi Nnam, PhD
Stephen O’Keefe, MBBS, MSc, MD
Juan Rivera, PhD
Dennis Savaiano, PhD
Daniel Tomé, PhD


2022 Distinguished 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 Distinguished 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 Distinguished 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 Distinguished 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 Distinguished Fellows

Kathryn Dewey
Michael Gibney
Eileen Kennedy
David Klurfeld
Alice Lichtenstein
Judith Marlett
Eric Ravussin
Linda Adair
Bruce Ames
Patsy Brannon
Nancy Butte

2017 Distinguished 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 Distinguished Fellows

Janet Greger
Jesse Gregory
Guy Johnson
Allen Levine
Bernadette Marriott
Barry Shane
Virginia Stallings
Robert Suskind
Connie Weaver
George Fahey

2015 Distinguished Fellows

Benjamin Caballero
Mark Failla
Pamela Fraker
Barbara Hansen
Penny Kris-Etherton
Bo Lönnerdal
Martha Stipanuk
Ricardo Uauy
Richard Atkinson
Diane Birt

2014 Distinguished 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 Distinguished Fellows

Kenneth Brown
Paul Coates
Cutberto Garza
Reynaldo Martorell
Linda Meyers
John Milner
Catharine Ross
Jacob Selhub
Allen Taylor
Catherine Woteki

2012 Distinguished Fellows

Lindsay Allen
Stephanie Atkinson
Lynne Ausman
Stephen Barnes
Adrianne Bendich
Werner Bergen
Jere D. Haas
Mohsen Meydani

2011 Distinguished Fellows

Leann Birch
Peggy Borum
Robert Cousins
John Erdman
Frank Greer
Sooja Kim
Roy Martin
Barbara Rolls
Walter Willet
James Anderson

2010 Distinguished Fellows

Gary Beauchamp
Jeffrey Blumberg
Fergus Clydesdale
Richard Deckelbaum
Olle Hernell
Errol Marliss
Michael Pariza
Barry Popkin
Judith Stern
Thomas Badger
Dale E. Bauman

2009 Distinguished Fellows

Margaret Cheney
William Dietz
Osman Galal
MRC Greenwood
Gail Harrison
Steven Heymsfield
Joanne Lupton
Noel Solomons
W Allan Walker
Elizabeth Yetley

2008 Distinguished Fellows

D’Ann Finley
K.C. Hayes
David Jenkins
Ronald Krauss
Roland Leach
Forrrest Nielsen
Paul Pencharz

2007 Distinguished 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 Distinguished Fellows

Barbara Harland
Joel Kopple
Orville Levander
Harry Mersmann
Charlotte Neumann
Gretel Pelto
Robert Rucker
Gary Beecher
Donald Beitz
Andrew Clifford

2005 Distinguished Fellows

David Baker
Bruce Bistrian
Elsworth Buskirk
Elizabeth Davis
Peter Furst
Leif Hambraeus
Joseph Hautvast
Melvin Mathias
Fernando Monckeberg
Marion Nestle

2004 Distinguished Fellows

Billy Baumgardt
George Blackburn
Johanna Dwyer
Charles Elson
Jean Hankin
William Heird
Lennart Krook
Anthony Norman
Wilson Pond

2003 Distinguished 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 Distinguished 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 Distinguished 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 Distinguished 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
Norlin Benevenga

1999 Distinguished 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 Distinguished 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 Distinguished 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 Distinguished 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 Distinguished Fellows

George Beaton
Cecile Edwards
Allan Forbes
Stanley Gershoff
Charles Hill
Stanley Levenson
Juan Navia
Duane Ullrey
Peter Van Soest
Elsie Widdowson

1994 Distinguished Fellows

Ernest Beutler
Felix Bronner
Mary Carpenter
Hans Fisher
Paul Griminger
Avanelle Kirksey
Robert Neal
Ananda Prasad
Joyce Beare Rogers
Daniel Rudman

1993 Distinguished 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 Distinguished 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 Distinguished 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 Distinguished 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 Distinguished 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 Distinguished 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 Distinguished 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 Distinguished 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 Distinguished 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 Distinguished 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 Distinguished 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 Distinguished Fellows

Harry G. Day
Karl Folkers
Max K. Horwitt
Esmond Snell
Madelyn Womack

1981 Distinguished Fellows

George K. Davis
Paul B. Pearson
Fredrick J. Stare
E.L.Robert Stokstad
Harry M. Vars

1980 Distinguished Fellows

Carl A. Baumann
Herbert E. Carter
Gladys A. Emerson
James M. Orten

1979 Distinguished Fellows

Helen E. Clark
Robert S Harris
Max O. Schultze

1978 Distinguished Fellows

R. H. Barnes
O. Lee Kline
Harold S. Olcot

1977 Distinguished Fellows

Arthur R. Kemmerer
Ruth M. Leverton
Pearl P. Swanson

1976 Distinguished Fellows

C. M. Coons
E. T. Mertz
C. A. Storvick

1975 Distinguished Fellows

Mildred Adams
F. S. Doft
Ancel Keys

1974 Distinguished Fellows

C. P. Berg
E. S. Eppright
G. A. Goldsmith

1973 Distinguished Fellows

Lela E. Booher
W. B. Castle
T. H. Jukes Jukes

1972 Distinguished Fellows

E.S. Nasset
M. E. Ohlson
M. S. Reynolds

1971 Distinguished Fellows

T. S. Hamilton
Ruth Okey
James Waddell

1970 Distinguished Fellows

Paul L Day
Charles N. Frey
Harold M. Scott

1969 Distinguished Fellows

S. K. Kon
Karl E. Mason
Bernard L. Oser

1968 Distinguished Fellows

Herman J. Almquist
Paul H. Phillips
Henry Sebrell, Jr.

1967 Distinguished Fellows

Georgian Adams
Earle W. Crampton
L. Emmett Holt

1966 Distinguished Fellows

Max Kleiber
Samuel Lepkovsky
John B. Youmans

1965 Distinguished Fellows

Paul György
Genevieve Stearns
Raymond W. Swift

1964 Distinguished Fellows

J. B. Brown
Henrik Dam
Hazel K. Stiebeling

1963 Distinguished Fellows

Wendell H. Griffith
C. Glen King
Leo C. Norris

1962 Distinguished Fellows

J. S. Hughes
Lydia J. Roberts
W. D. Salmon

1961 Distinguished Fellows

R. Adams Dutcher
Helen T. Parsons
Arthur H. Smith

1960 Distinguished Fellows

Icie Macy Hoobler
Paul E. Howe
Leonard A. Maynard

1959 Distinguished Fellows

Albert G. Hogan
Agnes Fay Morgan
William C. Rose

1958 Distinguished 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

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