Iona M. Monteiro

She is a Professor of Pediatrics and the Division Director of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. She is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Gastroenterology and runs a busy clinical pediatric gastroenterology practice. Her research interests are obesity and the microbiome. Currently, she is studying the changes in the microbiome in obese and overweight in collaboration with researchers at the Public Health Research Institute, Rutgers University. She has been the principal investigator on various grants for basic science and clinical trials. She has published on a wide range of topics from basic research to clinical case reports. She has published a review article on the Diagnosis and management of Inflammatory bowel disease in the British Medical Journal. Her most recent publication is on the effects of immigration on infant feeding practices in an inner city, low socioeconomic community. She has been an invited speaker at local, regional, national and international meetings. She is very active in the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition and is currently their liaison to the American Gastroenterological Association?s section on Pediatric Gastroenterology and Developmental Biology.