President’s Address: A Gut Feeling – The Story of Short Bowel Syndrome (SA10)

Dr. Jain is a professor of pediatrics, pharmacology, and physiology at Saint Louis University School of Medicine in Saint Louis, Missouri. He also serves as chief of the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition; director of Pediatric Liver Transplantation; and director of the Healthy First Program at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital. 

His interest in nutrition began in medical school when he cared for babies needing parenteral nutrition (PN). While PN sustained them, many had liver injuries that progressed as they stayed on PN and, thus, needed liver transplants. This motivated Dr. Jain to focus on novel strategies to mitigate the injuries and side effects of PN on patients. 

Dr. Jain has received research funding from the National Institutes of Health and various foundations. Dr. Jain’s seminal contributions include groundbreaking work in parenteral nutrition-associated multisystem injury, interrogating pathways, and leading the development of novel systems to study pathogenesis, diagnosis, and therapeutic approaches for appropriate nutrition delivery and rehabilitation. He is also credited with developing unbiased discovery platforms and excellence in diagnostic and therapeutic testing of pediatric liver diseases and pediatric obesity. 

An active and engaged ASPEN member, Dr. Jain has chaired the Research Committee and served on the Stanley Dudrick Research Scholar Award Committee, the Physician Engagement Committee, the Conference Program Committee, and the board of the ASPEN Rhoads Research Foundation. Dr. Jain has been on the ASPEN Board of Directors since 2020.