Martin Hewison, PhD, Univ of California-Los Angeles, Calabasas, CA Disclosure: Nothing to Disclose
Dr Hewison is currently a Professor at UCLA where his group has an established interest in the role of vitamin D in human physiology, and in particular the interaction between vitamin D and the immune system. Dr Hewison gained his PhD from the University of London (Guy’s Hospital Medical School) in 1986 and then spent 9 years as research fellow in the Department of Medicine at University College London. He then moved to the University of Birmingham where he established the UK’s major vitamin D research group, leading to an appointment as Professor of Molecular Endocrinology in 2004. In 2005 he moved to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles but was then recruited to neighboring UCLA at the end of 2007. He currently has a team of four postdocs and a clinical fellow and his work is supported by funds from the NIH and March of Dimes.