Chief, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology; Vice-Chair, Clinical Affairs, Department of Pediatric
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
George Fuchs is a physician scientist with specialty training in pediatrics and subspecialty training in pediatric infectious diseases, pediatric gastroenterology, and pediatric nutrition. Dr. Fuchs joined LSU School of Medicine in 1986, was on faculty at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences from 2001-2015, and joined the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in 2015 where he is currently a Professor in Pediatrics. He was seconded and in residence at research institutes in Thailand and Bangladesh for a 10 yr continuous period from 1992-2001. His area of expertise is nutrition, low birth weight, diarrheal disease, and infection including the therapeutic and preventive interactions between micronutrients and infectious disease (diarrheal disease, pneumonia), malnutrition, and low birth weight. Dr. Fuchs has experience both as an investigator and director of programs in child and maternal health and nutrition case management, community-based public health, program monitoring and evaluation, and operations and programmatic research. He has related to child and maternal health as well as nutrition policy through involvement with a variety of global health organizations including WHO, World Bank, USAID, UNICEF, and others. His work has been performed principally in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Latin America, and United States. Dr. Fuchs’ work has been published in over 170 peer reviewed journal articles, working reports, and book chapters.