Christopher Duggan

Biography

Christopher Duggan, M.D., M.P.H. is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He trained in Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Nutrition and Gastroenterology at Boston Children's Hospital, and Clinical Epidemiology at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. He is Samuel Meltzer Professor of Pediatrics in the Field of Gastroenterology and Director of the Division of Nutrition at Harvard Medical School and a Professor in the Departments of Nutrition and Global Health and Population at Harvard Chan. He is a pediatric gastroenterologist and nutrition physician at Boston Children's Hospital where he directs the Center for Nutrition. He is Medical Director of the Center for Advanced Intestinal Rehabilitation, one of the largest centers for the care of children with intestinal failure/chronic diarrhea in the US. His research interests include the nutritional management of acute and persistent diarrhea, clinical trials of micronutrient supplementation, and general aspects of nutritional support in catabolism. In 2019, he was named Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, one of the top-rated peer-reviewed journals in the field of nutrition.

Publications

• Safety and long-term effectiveness of teduglutide in children with intestinal failure due to short bowel syndrome: a multicenter, post-marketing cohort study.

  Jimenez L, Ray A, Mercer D, Kocoshis S, Kinberg S, Martinez M, Gumer L, Merritt R, Corkins MR, Vanderpool C, Cohran V, Wendel D, Thompson J, Sudan D, Van Buren KW, Kaufman S, Carey AN, Sabrdaran S, Mitchell P, Dahlberg SE, Weller E, Duggan CP. Pediatr Res 2026 Sep 17

  PMID: 42754721

• Genetic sequencing of children with malrotation and midgut volvulus: A cross-sectional study.

  Salazar JA, Rockowitz S, French CE, Shao W, Elman DM, Carey AN, Jaksic T, Sliz P, Tan WH, Duggan CP. JPGN Rep 2026 Aug 14

  PMID: 42602198

• Gestational weight gain and maternal immediate perinatal and postpartum outcomes in low and middle income countries: individual participant data meta-analyses.

  Partap U, Costa JC, Liu E, Cliffer IR, Wang D, Wang M, Nookala SK, Subramoney V, Briggs B, Ibraheem Abioye A, Accrombessi M, Adu-Afarwuah S, Ahmed S, Akurut H, Ali H, Ali A, Alves JG, Andra T, de Araújo CAL, Argaw A, Arifeen S, Artes R, Ashorn P, Ashorn U, Azizi F, Banda B, Bawah AT, Bhandari N, Bhutta ZA, Briand V, Calvo EB, Cardoso MA, de Castro MC, Cecatti JG, Chico-Barba G, Chowdhury R, Christian P, Collins S, Costello A, Dewey KG, Divala TH, Dombrowski JG, Drehmer M, Duggan CP, Dwarkanath P, Elliott AM, Enkhmaa D, Erchick D, Estrada-Gutierrez G, Fair FJ, Friis H, Fritz J, Gandevani SB, Ganmaa D, García-Guerra A, Gernand AD, Gomo E, Gondwe A, González-Ludlow I, Grais R, Guindo O, Hallamaa L, Hamer DH, Hanley-Cook G, Hien A, Huybregts L, Isanaka S, Jehan F, Kac G, Kajubi R, Kakuru A, Kasaro MP, Katz J, Khatry SK, Krebs NF, Kumar P, Kurpad AV, Lachat C, Lama TP, Lamadrid-Figueroa H, Lanou H, Lartey A, Laufer MK, Loy SL, Lipoeto NI, López LB, Luzia LA, Mahmud A, Maiya GA, Maleta K, Manandhar DS, Manary MJ, Mangani C, Marinho CRF, Martínez-Rojano H, Matias SL, Matijasevich A, McClure EM, Mengue SS, Miller JD, Moore SE, Mohamad M, Jan Mohamed HJ, Mridha MK, Mugusi FM, Muhammad A, Muhihi A, Muñoz-Rocha TV, Mutale W, Neufeld LM, Nguyen PH, Nunes MAA, Ome-Kaius M, Osrin D, Patson N, Pembe AB, Perichart-Perera O, Peterson KE, Premji Z, Prentice AM, Quezada-Sánchez AD, Rahman N, Ramachandra P, Ramakrishnan U, Rizvi A, Roberfroid D, Rodrigues PL, Rogerson SJ, Rondó PH, Roth DE, Sámano R, Saville NM, Schmidt MI, Semrau KE, Shafiq Y, Shaikh S, Shrestha BP, Da Silva JR, Soltani H, Soofi S, Martorano RM, Souza RT, Stein DJ, Stringer JS, Sudfeld CR, Taneja S, Tehrani FR, Thomas T, Tielsch JM, Toe LC, Unger HW, Urassa W, Vaz JDS, Victor A, Webb EL, West KP, Widen E, Workman L, Wright RO, Wu LSF, Young SL, Zar H, Zeng L, Fawzi WW. BMJ Med 2026

  PMID: 42445525

• Inconvenient for the investigator but convenient for science: trial registration in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

  Duggan CP, Bier DM. Am J Clin Nutr 2026

  PMID: 42386246

• Maternal Aflatoxin Exposure, Birth Outcomes, and Infant Growth in Uganda.

  Ausman LM, Namirembe G, Mezzano J, Lauer JM, Shrestha R, Agaba E, Bashaasha B, Griffiths JK, Marino-Costello E, Wang JS, Erhardt JG, Gewirtz AT, Duggan CP, Webb P, Ghosh S. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2026 Jul 01

  PMID: 42097135