Rate My Professor David Nieman

Dr. David C. Nieman, DrPH, FACSM, is a professor in the Department of Biology at Appalachian State University and director of the Human Performance Laboratory at the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis, North Carolina. He is a pioneer in the research area of exercise and nutrition immunology and helped establish that regular moderate exercise lowers upper respiratory tract infection rates while improving immunosurveillance, that heavy exertion increases infection rates while causing transient changes in immune function, and that carbohydrate and flavonoid ingestion by athletes attenuates exercise-induced inflammation. Dr. Nieman’s current work centers on investigating unique nutritional products as countermeasures to exercise- and obesity-induced immune dysfunction, inflammation, illness, and oxidative stress using a multi-omics approach. He has received more than $10.9 million in research grants and published more than 370 peer-reviewed publications in journals and books. He is the author of nine books on health, exercise science, and nutrition, including Nutritional Assessment (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2019, now in its 7th edition). Dr. Nieman served as vice-president of the American College of Sports Medicine, president of the Southeastern American College of Sports Medicine, and two terms as president of the International Society of Exercise and Immunology. He is Editor-in-Chief of the sports nutrition section of the journals Nutrients and Frontiers in Nutrition and sits on 10 journal editorial boards. Dr. Nieman’s Google Scholar h-index is 101, and his publications have been cited more than 41,000 times. He received the “100 Scholars Faculty Research Award” from Appalachian State University in 1997, the Montoye Scholar Award from the Southeastern American College of Sports Medicine in 2006, the Appalachian State University College of Fine and Applied Arts researcher of the year award in 2006, the American College of Sports Medicine’s Citation Award in 2013, and represented Appalachian State University four times as the Oliver Max Gardner nominee.