Research:

FocusClinical Nutrition
Micronutrient deficiencies and treatments
Nutritional anemia
Nutrition support in critically ill patients
Pharmaco- and nutrient kinetics after bariatric surgery or bowel resection

Lingtak-Neander Chan is a Professor of Pharmacy in the School of Pharmacy, and an Interdisciplinary Faculty of the Graduate Program in Nutritional Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle. He was formerly a faculty member of the College of Pharmacy and College of Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a board-certified nutrition support pharmacist, an elected fellow of the American College of Nutrition and an elected fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.

His primary research focus is on the absorption kinetics of micronutrients and drugs after bariatric surgery and other GI tract repairs. Other key areas of interest include micronutrient deficiencies, intestinal failure, critical care nutrition.

Dr. Chan is the 43rd president of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) in 2019-2020