About Martin D Fried, MD

Martin D Fried, M.D. has been involved in nutrition and medicine for over 27 years. Doctor Fried is a member of an elite group of physicians who are certified Physician Nutrition Specialists. With his nutrition certification and his pediatric board certification, doctor Martin Fried is extremely qualified to to help solve the unhealthy obesity and overweight epidemic in children and adults
He began his education at SUNY Stony Brook, where he received his Bachelors of Science in Biology in 1980. He was a double major in biology and electrical engineering. Doctor Fried was a member of Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society and a charter member of Etta Kappa Nu- the electrical engineering honor society. He graduated with his Medical Degree from SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse in 1985. In 1985, Doctor Fried was awarded an American Medical Association scholarship in Clinical Nutrition. Doctor Fried then interned and completed his residency at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Pediatric training Program in New Brunswick, NJ from 1986-1989. Dr. Fried has been the recipient of several prestigious awards and certificates throughout his career. He received the Tisdall Award for Pediatric Research while in training in Nutrition at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto in 1991. Twice Doctor Fried won the Attending category Publication award for original research at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, NJ in 1996 and 1999.
Doctor Fried was certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in 1992, 1999 and 2006. He was elected to be a committee member for the development of medical student teaching in 1994 by Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. He is committed to teaching and has been a resident physician instructor at Jersey Shore University Medical Center for over 12 years. Doctor Fried is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (FAAP), a diplomat of the American Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists, a member of New Jersey Medical Society, North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology Hepatology and Nutrition. Dr Fried is also a member of the Monmouth County chamber of commerce.
Doctor Fried has extensively researched obesity and preventative health relating to exercise and nutrition. He also cared for, diagnosed and treated all kinds of weight issues while he trained in Nutrition at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
Dr Fried is also an accomplished abstract artist specializing in acrylic painting and oil pastels. You will notice his artwork displayed throughout this website for your viewing pleasure.
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Medical School: SUNY Syracuse, MD 1985
Honors: Scholarship in Clinical Nutrition. Doctor Fried used this scholarship to train in enteral and parenteral nutrition at the hospital of the university of Pennsylvania in 1985. He presented a speech to the physicians of the nutrition support staff on the topic of "The respiratory quotient and feeding of critically ill respirator dependent patients"

Residency: Pediatrics, RW Johnson Hospital, 1986-89
Doctor Fried had no nutritional mentor during his residency so he decided to train at one of the best hospitals in North America that teaches physicians about nutrition. ( The hospital for Sick Children in Toronto- see below)

Subspecialty Training:
Nutrition, Hospital for Sick Children, 1989-91
In 1989 Doctor Fried was responsible for managing the nutrition of the inpatients and the outpatients at the hospital for sick children in toronto. A year later he was performing original nutrition research with children and teenagers with cystic fibrosis as well as original nutrition research with quadraplegic children and teenagers.

Honors: Award for research on nutrition in handicapped children . Doctor Fried designed and developed a research study that showed one type of nutritional formula (whey based) emptied faster than a casein based formula in quadraplegic patients who were fed through a feeding tube.

Pediatric Gastroenterology and nutrition, Babies Hospital, 1991-92
During his training at Columbia Presbyterian Medical center's babies Hospital in NY, Doctor Fried augmented his nutritional training while learning expertise in endoscopy and colonoscopy in children. From 1991-1993, doctor Fried published four nutrition research projects that he had completed at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.


Appointments:
Assistant Professor RW Johnson Medical School
Doctor Fried has supervised the training of pediatric doctors and medical students including teaching them about nutrition

Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition at Jersey Shore University Medical Center and Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank, NJ
Doctors in training for the last 15 years at Jersey Shore University Medical Center have been trained by doctor Fried. He tought them nutrition as well as gastroenterology while maintaining an outpatient practice.


Committees and Medical Societies:
Chairman, Nutrition task force of the American Academy Pediatrics, NJ Chapter
Food Allergy Awareness Committee- Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Doctor Fried helped bring allergy awareness to food servers in NJ
North American Society Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition
Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America
Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (FAAP)


Certifications:
American Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists Certified 2006
American Board of Pediatrics certified 1992,1999, 2006
New Jersey State License
New York State License

Original Research:

1. Video Conference – Co infections associated with Abdominal Pain, Dr Martin Fried, Philadelphia, PA
http://www.lymediseaseassociation.org/Videos_Philadelphia_Medical_Conference.html


2. Fried MD, Adelson M and Mordechai E. Multiple Gastrointestinal Coinfections occur simultaneously in children and adolescents . Practical Gastroenterology. 2004(Nov) 78-81

3. Fried MD, Pietrucha D, Madigan G, and Bal A. Borrelia burgdorferi Persists in the Gastrointestinal Tract of Children and Adolescents with Lyme disease. J Spirochetal and Tick-borne Diseases. 2002 (9) 11-15.

4. Fried MD, Schairer J, Madigan G, and Bal A. Bartonella henselae is associated with heartburn, abdominal pain, skin rash, mesenteric adenitis, gastritis and duodenitis. JPediatr Gastroenterol Nutr, 2002(35) 3. #158

5. Fried MD, Abel M, Pietrucha D, Kuo YH, and Bal A. . The Spectrum of Gastrointestinal Manifestations in Children with Lyme disease. J Spirochetal and Tick-borne Diseases. 1999 (6) 89-93.


6. Fried MD, Pietrucha D and Duray P. Gastrointestinal Pathology in children with Lyme Disease. J Spirochetal and Tick-borne Diseases. 1996 (3) 101-104

7. Khoshoo V, Fried MD and Pencharz P: Incidence of Gastroesophageal reflux with casein and whey based formulas. J Pediatr Gastroentol Nutri 1993 (17) 116.

8. Azcue MP, Fried MD and Pencharz P: Validation of the use of tetrapolar bioelectrical impedance in the measurement of total body water in people with cystic fibrosis. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 1993(16) 440-445. Body composition was analyzed by Doctor Fried in people with cystic fibrosis most of whom had good nutritional status

9. Fried MD, Khoshoo et al: Decrease in gastric emptying and episodes of regurgitation in children with spastic quadraplegia fed a whey based formula. J Pediatrics 1992 (120) 569-572. This is the article Doctor Fried wrote about whey and casein based nutritional formulas and how they affect the rate of stomach emptying and vomiting in spastic quadraplegics.

10. Fried MD and Pencharz P: Energy and nutrient intakes in children with spastic quadraplegia. J Pediatrics 1991(119) 947. In this article Doctor Fried analyzes and documents the nutritional needs including energy, protein, vitamins and minerals in quadraplegics who are formula fed.

11. Fried MD, Durie P et al: The cystic fibrosis gene and resting energy expenditure. J Pediatrics 1991(119) 913-916 Doctor Fried shows that increasing nutrition energy requirements in well nourished people with cystic fibrosis is more related to deteriorating lung function than to gene type.