Vanderbilt Center for Human Nutrition

Associate Professor of Surgery & Medicine

Jose J. Diaz, Jr, MD, CNS, FACS, FCCM, is the Director of Emergency General Surgery and the Surgical Co-Director of Adult Nutritional Support Services.

Education

Medical School
University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas

Internship
University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky

Residency
Meridia Huron/Hillcrest Hospitals, Cleveland Clinic Foundation Affiliated Health Systems, Cleveland, Ohio

Fellowship
Trauma & Surgical Critical Care, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee

Postgraduate Training

Dr. Diaz is board certified in general surgery with added qualification in surgical critical care.

Also, he is a Certified Nutrition Specialist by the American College of Nutrition.  His special interests with active clinical research are in adult critical care nutrition, reoperative gastrointestinal surgery, repair of giant hernias, surgical infections, and the overall medical, nutritional, and surgical management of intestinal fistulas.