George A. Bray
| George A. Bray | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 25, 1931 Evanston, Illinois |
| Fields | Endocrinology |
| Education | Brown University, Harvard Medical School |
| Known for | Obesity research |
| Notable awards | 1988 Osborne and Mendel Award from the American Institute of Nutrition, 1994 Joseph Goldberger Award from the American Medical Association |
| Spouse | Yes |
| Children | 4 |
George A. Bray is an American obesity researcher. As of 2016, he is a University Professor emeritus and formerly the chief of the division of clinical obesity and metabolism at Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center (PBRC) in Baton Rouge. He is also a Boyd Professor emeritus at PBRC, and a professor of medicine emeritus at the Louisiana State University Medical Center.
Bray was born on July 25, 1931 in Evanston, Illinois. He received his A.B. from Brown University in 1953 (Summa cum Laude and valedictorian), and his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1957 (Magna cum Laude). He subsequently interned on the Osler Service of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD, served as a Research Associate at NIH (Mentor: Robert W. Berliner, MD), was a fellow at the National Institute for Medical Research (Mill Hill: Mentor: Rosalind Pitt-Rivers, PhD) and was a fellow at the New England Medical Center, Boston, MA (Mentor Edwin (Ted) Astwood, MD, PhD).
Bray began his academic career at the Tufts-New England Medical Center, in Boston MA in 1964 and in 1970, Bray became the director of the Clinical Research Center at the Harbor–UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA. In between his time at UCLA and his move to the University of Southern California in 1982 as Chief of Diabetes,Bray served as the first Nutrition Coordinator in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health in the US Dept of Health and Human Services in Washington DC. In 1989, he became the first executive director of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, a position he continued to hold until 1999 when he returned to his research career . In 1976, he founded the International Journal of Obesity with Alan Howard, and in 1982, he founded the North American Association for the Study of Obesity (since renamed The Obesity Society). In 1993, he established the journal Obesity Research (now known as Obesity), and served as its editor-in-chief from then until 1997. He was also the founder of the journal Endocrine Practice, serving as its editor-in-chief from 1995 to 1996.
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