Nutrigenomics and Obesity: It’s about prediction not restriction

Steve C. Zicker

MS, DVM, PhD Diplomate ACVN and ACVIM (LAIM)

Dr. Zicker received his MS in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1982, his DVM from the University of California-Davis in 1986 and his PhD in Nutrition from the University of California-Davis in 1993. He also served an internship in medicine and surgery at Texas A&M University and a residency in medicine at the University of California-Davis. Following his graduate education, Dr. Zicker spent one year as a lecturer and postgraduate researcher at the University of California-Davis and 18 months in private practice in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He joined Hill’s Pet Nutrition as a Veterinary Clinical Scientist in 1996. He is currently in the Global Professional Veterinary Affairs group at Hill’s Pet Nutrition Inc. Dr. Zicker is a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and the American College of Veterinary Nutrition. He also served as a Fulbright Scholar to Mekelle University, Ethiopia from 2006-2007. His major professional interests are comparative nutrition and nutrition education.