Allan Kornberg, MD, a pediatrician, is executive director for Nutrition for Families (NFF), which
provides support, community, tools, and educational materials on healthy plant-based nutrition (PBN)
for pediatricians and other pediatric clinicians, and families. Allan’s PBN work includes serving as a
medical advisor to Balanced, an NGO focused on nutrition security and public health advocacy.
Balanced, NFF, and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine work together on health school
meals.
Additionally, Allan serves as a board member with Physicians Association for Nutrition, another NFF
partner. PAN is a global NGO determined to reduce, and aspirationally eliminate, diet related
morbidity and mortality. He is board treasurer with Dharma Voices for Animals, where he supports
faith-based diet change with emphasis on healthy nutrition and serves as board chair with the Global
Federation of Animal Sanctuaries.
Allan practiced both primary care and emergency pediatrics. He co-edited ‘Child Abuse and Neglect-
A Medical Reference,‘ and served as Vice-Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of
Buffalo (UB), and Chief of both Emergency Medicine and General Pediatrics there.  He was
Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at UB, and Associate Clinical
Professor of Pediatrics at Brown University .  Allan’s additional healthcare roles included co-founder
of Orchard Park Pediatrics, and first medical director, then CEO of Network Health – a healthplan in
Massachusetts serving impoverished individuals.
Dr. Kornberg has held addition leadership positions with medical, humanitarian and animal protection
organizations, including chief medical officer of the National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare
Quality, president of the Erie County (NY) Commission on Rape and Sexual Assault, and executive
director for both World Animal Protection-USA and Farm Sanctuary.
He received his S.B. from MIT in Biology, M.D. from the Ichan School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, and
M.B.A. from the University of Rochester.  He was resident and chief resident in Pediatrics at the
University of Buffalo School of Medicine.