Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease Nutrition Desk Reference

"Preface The gastrointestinal tract is concerned with ingesting, digesting, and absorbing nutrients and the liver is a metabolic engine that transforms nutrients, synthesizes plasma proteins, and detoxifies bacteria and toxins absorbed from the gut. It is therefore not surprising that gastrointestinal and hepatic diseases have a major impact on the nutritional state of the individual. The text is easily referred to, integrating the gastrointestinal tract and nutrition, and is a valuable addition to the literature of the practicing gastroenterologist. The desk reference is edited by Dr. Gerard Mullin, who directs the integration of nutrition and gastrointestinal disease at Johns Hopkins Medical Centre, Dr. Laura Matarese, who directs the nutritional care of persons who are undergoing intestinal rehabilitation or have undergone bowel transplant at the University of Pittsburgh, and Dr. Melissa Palmer, the medical director of hepatology at New York University in Plainview. They have track records and currentinterests suited to such a reference. The book has a total of 32 chapters. The chapters cover a range of topics relevant to being a reference integrating nutrition with gastrointestinal disease. Three chapters, entitled "Major Components of the Gastrointestinal System and their Role in Digestion," "The Role of the Gut Microbiota and Probiotics in Gastrointestinal Disease Prevention," and "Anatomy and Physiology of the Liver," give the reader an understanding of the normal state. Other sections cover the role of nutrition in gastrointestinal and liver disease, including alcoholic and nonalcoholic liver disease, malabsorption, colorectal disease, transplantation, pancreatitis, and inflammatory bowel disease"--

Gerard E. Mullin, MD, is an associate professor in the department of medicine as well as director of integrative gastroenterology nutrition services at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is an internist, gastroenterologist, and nutritionist and the only physician in the United States who is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine for Gastroenterology, National Board of Nutrition Support Certification, American College of Nutrition, and the American Board of Nutrition Physician Specialists.

Laura E. Matarese, PhD, RD, LDN, FADA, CNSD, is an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and director of nutrition for the Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplantation Center at the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. She is the author of over 150 books, chapters, manuscripts, abstracts, and videos and currently serves on the editorial boards of several journals.

Melissa Palmer, MD, is medical director of hepatology at New York University Hepatology Associates Plainview and clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center. She graduated from Columbia University with a BA and was trained in hepatology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. She is the author of the best-selling book Dr. Melissa Palmer’s Guide to Hepatitis and Liver Disease and runs the popular liver website www.liverdisease.com.