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3-A-Day of Dairy
 Robert Heaney, MD, FACP, FAIN
Robert Heaney, MD, FACP, FAIN, is a professor of medicine at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Creighton. He completed his internship and residency training in internal medicine at St. Louis City Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri, and served research fellowships at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Heaney has held faculty appointments at the University of Oklahoma, George Washington University, and Creighton, where for nine years he served as Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine from 1961-1969. He was Creighton's first Vice President for Health Sciences, a position he held from 1971-1984, and since 1984 has held the all-university chair named in honor of the University's founder.
Dr. Heaney serves or has served on the editorial boards of all the major scientific publications in the field of bone biology and chaired the Scientific Advisory Panel on Osteoporosis for the Office of Technology Assessment (U.S. Congress). He is a past member of the Board of Directors of Loyola University of Chicago and of the Association of Academic Health Centers, and is currently an emeritus member of the Board of Trustees of the National Osteoporosis Foundation. He served as a panel member on the Calcium and Related Nutrients of the Food and Nutrition Board (National Academy of Sciences) that recently established DRIs for bone-related nutrients.
Dr. Heaney has worked for over 45 years in the field of osteoporosis and human calcium physiology. He is the author of three books and has published over 300 original papers, chapters, monographs, and reviews in scientific and educational fields. He has received numerous honors and awards, including the Kappa Delta Award of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the Alumni Achievement Citation of his alma mater. In 1990, he was awarded honorary membership in The American Dietetic Association, and in 1993 he was elected Fellow of the American College of Nutrition, both in recognition of his work in delineating human calcium absorptive performance and in defining human calcium requirements. In 1994, he received the Frederic C. Bartter Award from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research in recognition of his career in clinical research. He received three awards in 2003: France's Institute Candia awarded him with their Scientific Prize for his significant contributions to raising awareness of calcium and its health benefits, the E.V. McCollum Award from the American Society for Clinical Nutrition in recognition of his contributions to nutritional science and medicine, and the McCollum International Lectureship from the American Society of Nutritional Sciences.
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