Zhaoping Li, MD, PhD is Director of the Center for Human Nutrition at University College Los Angeles (UCLA). She is also Professor of Medicine; Chief of the Division of Clinical Nutrition; and the Lynda & Stewart Resnick Endowed Chair in Human Nutrition, at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Dr. Li is board certified in internal medicine, physician nutrition specialists, a fellow of American College of Physicians. She is a former President of the National Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists and a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Society for Nutrition.

Dr. Li has been a principal investigator for over 100 investigator-initiated National Institutes of Health and industry-sponsored clinical trials and published over 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers. She has co-Authored textbook “Primary Care Nutrition: Writing the Nutrition Prescription” in 2017, and is a co-editor of “Nutritional Oncology” in 2021, both published by CRC Press.