NUCC taxonomy code
Physician Nutrition Specialist (Surgery)
2086P0122X
- Grouping
- Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians
- Classification
- Surgery
- Specialization
- Physician Nutrition Specialist
Definition
A physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of primary nutritional diseases (e.g., undernutrition, overnutrition, and genetic or acquired errors of metabolism) and adjunctive nutritional therapeutics (e.g., nutritional therapy or support of diseases states with a metabolic component). Physician Nutrition Specialists also provide services for nutritional disease prevention, including diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer’s, hospital malnutrition screening, and perioperative nutrition.
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