MOVE! Weight Management Program

Samuel Klein, MD William H. Danforth Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Science Director of the Center for Human Nutrition Director of the Weight Management Center Associate Program Director, General Clinical Research Center Washington University School of Medicine Samuel Klein, MD is the William H. Danforth Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Science, Director of the Center for Human Nutrition, Director of the Weight Management Center, and Associate Program Director of the General Clinical Research Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. He also serves as Medical Director of the Nutrition Support Service at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Dr. Klein received an MD degree from Temple University Medical School in 1979 and an MS Degree in Nutritional Biochemistry and Metabolism from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984. He completed residency training in Internal Medicine and a Clinical Nutrition Fellowship at University Hospital in Boston, a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Nutrition and Metabolism Research Fellowship at Harvard Medical School, and a Gastroenterology Fellowship at The Mt.Sinai Hospital in New York. He is Board-Certified in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, and Nutrition and is also a Certified Nutrition Support Physician. Dr. Klein is Associate Editor of Gastroenterology and serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Physiology (Endocrinology & Metabolism) and the Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. His research is focused on the regulation of substrate metabolism in humans in vivo, particularly the pathophysiology of lipid metabolism in obesity.