Dr. Erdman's training and expertise encompass the nutritional and physiological biochemistry of man and animals. He has authored over 260 original research articles on these subjects and has over 400 total publications including other articles and chapters. His h-Index in the Scopus is 65. He is a member of a variety of professional organizations including the American Society for Nutrition (ASN), the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), and the American Heart Association (AHA). He is past President of the American Society for Nutritional Sciences (now ASN), has been elected Fellow for ASN, AHA and IFT. He has served on 28 committees for the Institute of Medicine (generally through the Food and Nutrition Board [FNB]), National Academy of Sciences (NAS). He served on the FNB for 9 years, 6 as Vice Chair and as Chair of the Standing Committee on the Scientific Evaluation of Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) and Chair of the Committee on Military Nutrition Research. This committee published the report "Nutrition and Traumatic Brain Injury" in 2011. Currently, he is Chair, Standing Committee to Review the Dietary Reference Intakes Framework for the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. For his extensive contributions to the NAS, he was named as Lifetime National Associate of the NAS in 2001 and was elected as a Member of the Institute of Medicine (now National Academy of Medicine) in 2003.