Biography:

Dr. Pribis is a native of Slovakia, a small country in central Europe (it used to be a part of Czechoslovakia until 1993). He graduated in 1988 from School of Medicine at King Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. In 1996 he graduated from Loma Linda University, School of Public Health with Dr.P.H. (Doctor of Public Health) in nutrition and epidemiology.

After graduation he worked as nutritional epidemiologist for the Adventist Health Study.  He returned to Czech Republic in 1997 and worked as medical advisor and health consultant to several health promoting institutions. In 2000, he moved to Germany where he worked as health director responsible for health ministry at both German unions. Since 2004, he has worked as Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Wellness at the Nutrition and Wellness Department at Andrews University in Berrien Springs. He conducts research in the area of healthy lifestyle and longevity, and publishes in peer reviewed and lay magazines. He is an enthusiastic speaker about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle and a promoter of evidence-based lifestyle medicine.

Dr. Pribis is married and has two daughters.

Current Research or Professional Activities:

Selected Publications:

1. Gary E. Fraser, Dale Sumbureru, Peter Pribis, Richard L. Neil & M. Anthony C. Frankson. Association among Health Habits, Risk Factors, and All-Cause Mortality in Black California Population. Epidemiology 1997; 8:168-174.

2. Peter Pribis, Gary E. Fraser, Georgia Hodgkin & Joan Sabate. Dietary Vitamin E and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in California Seventh-day Adventists. (Abstract)  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1999; 70: 625S

3. Peter Pribis, Joan Sabate & Gary E. Fraser. Food consumption among vegetarian and nonvegetarian California Seventh-day Adventists. 1994-1996. (Abstract) American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1999; 70: 633S

Poster Presentations:

Joan Sabate, Peter Pribis, Synnove Knutsen & Gary E. Fraser. Macronutrients Intake in a Health Conscious Population According to Levels of Meat Intake.  Poster presented at 16th Intenational Congress of Nutrition, Montreal, Canada, 1997

Peter Pribis & Gunter Hanke. Fast reduction of serum cholesterol by a 19-Day low fat vegetarian diet. Poster presented at 4th International congress on vegetarian nutrition, Loma Linda, 2002