Fima Lifshitz, M.D. is Editor-in-Chief of Growth, Genetics & Hormones (GGH) and is Senior Nutrition Scientist and Director of Pediatrics at Sansum Medical Research Institute. He is also President of Pediatric Sunshine Academics, a nonprofit organization committed to pediatric nutrition and endocrine research and education.
Dr. Lifshitz holds academic appointments as Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Miami, School of Medicine and at the State University of New York Health Science Center, Brooklyn , New York. Previously, he was Chief-of-Staff at Miami Children’s Hospital and Chair of Nutrition Sciences; Chairman of Pediatrics at Maimonides Medical Center; Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Nutrition and Vice Chairman of Pediatrics at North Shore University Hospital and Professor of Pediatrics at Cornell University Medical College. Dr. Lifshitz is the author of more than 350 scientific papers, review articles and book chapters, the author or editor of 18 books, including Pediatric Endocrinology now in its 4th edition. Dr. Lifshitz has been on the editorial board of GGH since its inception in 1985 and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American College of Nutrition from 1993-1998, as well as Editor-in-Chief of International Pediatrics from 1998-2002.
Dr. Lifshitz earned his M.D. from University of Mexico UNAM. He obtained his pediatric endocrine fellowship training at The Johns Hopkins Hospital; he has trained 34 fellows in the field. He is particularly proud of having a metabolic unit at the Escola da Medicina da Universidade Federal da Bahia, in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil named for him.