Mark Meskin

Title: Associate Professor, Graduate Coordinator, and Director Didactic Program in Dietetics

Department: Human Nutrition and Food Science

Room: 7-116

Phone: (909) 869-4877 Fax: (909) 869-5078

E-Mail: msmeskin@csupomona.edu

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Tenure:

Education:

BA, Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles (1976)
MS, Food and Nutritional Sciences, California State University, Northridge (1983)
Ph.D., Pharmacology and Nutrition,
University of Southern California, School of Medicine (1990)

Biography:

Dr. Meskin is Associate Professor, Graduate Coordinator, and Director Didactic Program in Dietetics in the Department of Human Nutrition and Food Science, College of Agriculture, at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He has been a Registered Dietitian since 1984 and is also a Certified Nutrition Specialist (1995).

Dr. Meskin was a postdoctoral fellow in cancer research at the Kenneth Norris Jr. Cancer Hospital and Research Institute in Los Angeles from 1990 to 1992. He received his academic appointment at the University of Southern California, School of Medicine in 1992 and served as Assistant Professor of Cell and Neurobiology and Director of the Nutrition Education Programs from 1992 to 1996. While at the University of Southern California, School of Medicine, he created, developed, directed and taught in the Master's Degree Program in Nutrition Science. Dr. Meskin has also served as a faculty member of the Department of Family Environmental Sciences at California State University, Northridge and the Human Nutrition Program at the University of New Haven, Connecticut.

Teaching Areas/Expertise:

Basic nutrition; nutritional biochemistry; clinical nutrition; food and nutritional toxicology; food science and technology; phytochemicals; health fraud.

Research Areas/Expertise:

He has several major areas of research interest including: (1) hepatic drug metabolism and the effects of nutritional factors on drug metabolism and clearance; (2) the role of bioactive non-nutrients (phytochemicals/herbs/botanicals/nutritional supplements) in disease prevention and health promotion; (3) fetal pharmacology and fetal nutrition/maternal nutrition/pediatric nutrition; (4) nutrition education; (5) the development of educational programs for improving science literacy and combating health fraud.

Awards/Recognition/Professional Activity:

Dr. Meskin is a member of numerous honor societies including Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Gamma Mu, Phi Kappa Phi, Omicron Nu, Omicron Delta Kappa, Phi Upsilon Omicron, and Sigma Xi. He was elected a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition in 1993 and was Certified as a Charter Fellow of the American Dietetic Association in 1995. He received the Teacher of the Year Award in the College of Agriculture in 1999.

Dr. Meskin has been involved with both the local and national Institute of Food Technologists for over twenty years. He has served as Chair of the Southern California IFT and remains active in SCIFT as a Counselor and member of the Executive Board. Dr. Meskin has been an active Food Science Communicator for the national IFT and is a member of the IFT Expert Panel on Food Safety and Nutrition. He is also involved in several IFT divisions including the Nutrition Division and the Toxicology and Safety Evaluation Division.

Dr. Meskin is a Scientific Advisor for the Food, Nutrition and Safety Committee of the International Life Sciences Institute, North America. He is a long time Advisory Board Member of the Marilyn Magaram Center for Food Science, Nutrition and Dietetics at California State University, Northridge, where he helps guide the educational mission of the center and plan symposia. He has been involved with the Southern California Food Industry Conference for many years. He has also been a member of the Medical Advisory Board of the Celiac Disease Foundation.

Dr. Meskin is regularly invited to speak to a wide variety of groups and writes for several newsletters. He has been a consultant for food companies, pharmaceutical companies, HMOs and legal firms. He is a member of many professional and scientific societies including the American Dietetic Association, the American Institute of Nutrition, the American College of Nutrition, the Society for Nutrition Education, the American Council on Science and Health, the National Council Against Health Fraud, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the New York Academy of Sciences.

11/29/01