Gerard E. Mullin, MD, MS, CNSP

Gerard E. Mullin, M.D., C.N.S.P.Dr. Mullin graduated from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School in 1985 as a member of the Alpha-Omega-Alpha honor society. He completed his training in internal medicine at the Mount Sinai Hospital in 1988 where his research in AIDS and immunology merited several publications and several research awards including the American College of Physicians. Dr. Mullin then moved to Baltimore, Maryland to train in the field of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at the Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1988-1991. He concomitantly performed basic research at the National Institutes of Health from 1989-1991. His area of interest was the immunological pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease. In 1991 he joined the faculty at North Shore University-Cornell University College of Medicine. His area of interest expanded to nutrition and in 1994 he earned a Masters of Science in nutrition at the University of Bridgeport and mentored under Dr. Shari Lieberman, a CAM specialist. At North Shore, Dr. Mullin was promoted to; program director of Gastroenterology in 1998, Director of Nutrition Support in 2000 and Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology in 2002 and Associate Professor of Medicine in 2003. Dr. Mullin has become an authority in functional gastroenterology and has lectured nationally and internationally on this subject. He is boarded in Gastroenterology and is separately boarded by two different nutrition societies (American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition-ASPEN, American Board of Physician Nutrition Specialist-ABPNS). Dr. Mullin has also served as President of one of the countries larges chapters of ASPEN’s nutrition society (LISPEN) in 2003-4. He is nationally recognized for his expertise in gastrointestinal nutrition and will be chairing a session on Probiotics and delivering a state of the art lecture on CAM in Gastroenterology at ASPEN’s annual meeting in January, 2007. He is the Director of Nutrition Services and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) for the Division of Gastroenterology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Dr. Mullin has made many novel discoveries and was awarded the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation’s young investigator of the year in 1991 and again in 1993. Marquis has recognized him in; Who's Who in US Health and Medical Services, 1990, Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 1993, 2003, 2004, Marquis Who’s Who in the World, 1994, 1996, Marquis Who’s Who in America, 1996, 2005, 2006, Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, 1998. In 1998 he was recognized for his accomplishments by his undergraduate university and was awarded the William Paterson University Distinguished Alumni Award. His peers have recognized him as a clinician by being listed in America’s Registry of Outstanding Professionals in 2003, Long Island Magazines Top Doctors (2003-4) and Consumer’s Research Council of America, “America’s Top Physicians” (2004-5, 2005-6).