Physician Nutrition Specialist (Family Medicine)
12 active NPIs list Physician Nutrition Specialist (Family Medicine) (taxonomy code 207QP0002X) as their primary specialty.
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.