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Wayne W. Campbell, PhD

Professor
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States

Wayne W. Campbell, MS, PhD, a Professor of Nutrition Science at Purdue University, earned undergraduate, masters, and doctorate degrees in Nutrition Science from the University of Delaware, University of Maryland, and Tufts University, respectively. During his career, he has conducted human clinical research integrating nutrition, exercise physiology, and geriatrics at Tufts University, The Pennsylvania State University, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, and Purdue University. Dr. Campbell, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Society for Nutrition, has served on the U.S. federal government 2018 Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee and the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee; one of only three scientists to have served on both national committees. He has also served as a panelist for 18 scientific review committees of five federal agencies: National Institutes of Health; U.S. Department of Agriculture; National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Federal Aviation Administration; U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine. Dr. Campbell has authored >230 peer-reviewed publications and >250 abstracts presented at national scientific conferences. His multidimensional research program has a broad positive impact on our understanding of dietary protein from nutrient, food, and dietary pattern perspectives. His research helps inform dietary protein requirements and needs of adults and older adults, and the impacts of consuming healthy dietary patterns with varied quantities and food sources of protein, without or with concurrent exercise and (or) weight loss, on body composition, muscle strength and function, appetite, ingestive behaviors, and indexes of cardiometabolic health.

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