C. Wayne Callaway, M.D., received his medical training at Northwestern University, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine and at Harvard University. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Clinical Nutrition, and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. A Fellow of the American College of Endocrinology he has held academic appointments at Harvard Medical School, Mayo Medical School, George Washington University and at numerous other institutions as a visiting professor. Currently, he is in private practice in Washington, DC.

Dr. Callaway has been Director of the Nutrition Clinic and Nutrition Consulting Services, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota; Director of the Lipid Clinic at Mayo; and Director of the Center for Clinical Nutrition, George Washington University Medical Center.

Dr. Callaway has served as Medical Officer of the Nutrition Program, National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive Diseases. He also was Chairman of the Nutrition Education Subcommittee of the Nutrition Coordinating Committee, National Institutes of Health; and was Acting Executive Secretary of the Nutrition Coordinating Committee, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Dr. Callaway was involved in the development of the first edition of Nutrition and Your Health: Dietary Guidelines for Americans (1980), and was a member of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee for the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services for the third edition (1990). He served as Senior Editorial Advisor to the Nutrition Policy Board (DHHS) for The Surgeon General’s Report on Nutrition and Health (1988) and was Senior Science Consultant to the Food and Nutrition Board, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, during development of Diet and Health: Implications for Reducing Chronic Disease Risk (1984) and the Recommended Dietary Allowances 10th Edition (1984).

Dr. Callaway is a member of the American Society for Clinical Nutrition and the American Society for Nutrition Sciences, and has served as Chairman of their joint Public Information Committee and their Publications Management Committee, as well as Chairman of the Finance Committee and Treasurer of the American Society for Clinical Nutrition. He has been a member of the Board of Directors, Secretary-Treasurer, and Vice President of the American Board of Nutrition. Additionally he has been a member of the Nutrition Committee, American Heart Association ; the Nutrition Advisory Group, American Medical Association ; and the editorial boards of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Eating Disorders Review and Endocrine Practice. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (1991-1995), as well as State chair for the District of Columbia. Currently, he serves as a member of the Board of Directors for The Center for Communications, Health and the Environment.

Dr. Callaway’s major clinical and research interests have been in human obesity, including the heterogeneity of human obesities and the metabolic adaptations seen on semi-starvation diets. He co-chaired (with M.R.C. Greenwood) an NIH workshop on Methods for Characterizing Human Obesity and was a member of the Planning Committee for the NIH Consensus Conference on Health Aspects of Human Obesity. He served as Special Expert for the Working Group on Obesity and the National Task Force on Obesity, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH. In 1990, he was an invited scientific witness for the congressional hearings on "Deception and Fraud in the Diet Industry – Part I," before the Subcommittee on Regulation and Business Opportunities, Committee on Small Business, U.S. House of Representatives.

Dr. Callaway chaired the Scientific Task Force for the American Dietetic Association’s Dietary Recommendations for Women (1986) and served as a spokesperson for the Joint Statement on Vitamin and Mineral Supplements (1987), put out by the American Dietetic Association, the American Institute of Nutrition, the American Society for Clinical Nutrition, and the National Council Against Health Fraud.

Dr. Callaway received the Food and Drug Administration Commissioner’s Special Citation for his contributions to the development of dietary guidelines and his advice on issues involving human obesity (1983). He was the recipient of a Preventive Cardiology Academic Award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health (1986-88). In 1987, Dr. Callaway was made an honorary member of the American Dietetic Association. He was selected for the Alumni Wall-of-Fame, University of Delaware (1992). He is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Science and Technology, Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare, International Authors and Writers Who’s Who, and The Best Doctors in America.

Dr. Callaway’s publications have been primarily on obesity and nutrition-related issues and have appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Annals of Internal Medicine, the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, and the International Journal of Obesity, among other publications.

He is co-author (with Dr. Michael Albert) of Clinical Nutrition for the House Staff Officer (Williams and Wilkins, 1992), and author of two mass market books (with Catherine Whitney), The Callaway Diet: Successful Permanent Weight Control for Starvers, Stuffers, and Skippers (Bantam, 1990)
and Surviving With AIDS: A Comprehensive Program of Nutritional Co-Therapy (Little, Brown and Company, 1991). He was the Medical Editor of the American Medical Association Family Health Cookbook (Pocket Books, 1997), which was the recipient of a James Beard Award in 1998.

For the past two decades, Dr. Callaway has been a widely quoted interpreter of scientific data for the media, the food industry, and the general public. He has done extensive consulting for both government agencies and private sector clients, including Proctor & Gamble, Quaker Oats, Nabisco, Monsanto, and many others.

He has been interviewed on NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, PBS, ESPN, and numerous affiliates, and has appeared on the McNeill-Lehrer Newshour, the Today Show, Good Morning America, Phil Donahue, Larry King Live, and other nationally syndicated news and talk programs. His views on diet and health are frequently published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, and Wall Street Journal, as well as in numerous magazines (Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, Business Week, Vogue, Elle, Glamour, People, Self, Health, Prevention, and others). Throughout his career, Dr. Callaway has offered a consistent voice for moderation, and for a broader, balanced perspective on eating and health.