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PROFESSOR
MARK WAHLQVIST (CHAIR)
Director, International Health and Development
Unit, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Mark L. Wahlqvist AO, BmedSc, MD BS (Adelaide), MD (Uppsala), FRACP, FAFPHM, FACN, FAIFST, is generally regarded as Australia’s most eminent nutritionist whilst also a major figure in medicine and public health. He has held chairs in either human nutrition or internal medicine for more than 2 decades, is currently President of the International Union of Nutrition Sciences, with UN responsibilities in WHO and FAO, and he plays a key role in food regulation and policy. He has developed or chaired many community, state, national and international initiatives and committees from the arts to the sciences and medicine, often of a humanitarian nature. His research and writings have led to paradigm shifts in thinking about food and health with some 450 scientific papers and 20 books. A recurrent theme in his work has been internationalism and the discovery of cross-cultural solutions to health and other problems. Of particular relevance to the Asia Pacific Region, he is the immediate past President of the Asia Pacific Clinical Nutrition Society, and has been the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition for 10 years. He was awarded Sweden’s Charlotta Medal for his work on migration and made an Officer of the Order of Australia on Australia Day 2000. |
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PROFESSOR
JIM MANN
Professor of Human Nutrition,
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Professor Jim Mann has been Head of the Department of Human
Nutrition at the University of Otago and Consultant Physician
(Endocrinology) in Dunedin Hospital for the past 13 years. His
research and clinical work have principally been in the fields
of lipids and carbohydrates, coronary heart disease and diabetes.
He has been author and co-author of 210 papers published in
peer reviewed journals and written and edited several popular
books and textbooks, most recently the "Essentials of Human
Nutrition" (co-edited with Professor Stewart Truswell) which
was published in 1998 by Oxford University Press. He has been
involved with a number of national and international organisations
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PROFESSOR
IAN PUDDEY
Department of Medicine, University
of Western Australia
Professor Ian Puddey is Professor of Medicine at the University
of Western Australia. He is Head of the School of Medicine and Pharmacology in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Western Australia. He is currently a member of the Executive Committee
of the High Blood Pressure Research Council of Australia and
is a member of the International Society of Hypertension. He
has had longstanding clinical and research interests in all
aspects of diet, alcohol use and lifestyle as they pertain to
modification of cardiovascular risk factors and prevention of
coronary artery disease and stroke. More recently, this has
lead to a series of intervention studies assessing the influence
of dietary and beverage flavonoids and isoflavonoids on blood
pressure, serum lipids and endothelial function. Professor Puddey’s
research interests also focus on the broader question of the
role of oxidative stress in hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidemia,
and the relative importance of oxidative stress (and its therapeutic
modification) for the atherosclerotic process.
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PROFESSOR
GRAEME YOUNG
Professor of Gastroenterology,
Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, Australia.
Graeme Young graduated MB,BS in 1969 from the University of Melbourne and after attaining Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, studied overseas on a Fogarty International Fellowship and RACP Travelling Scholarship at Washington University, St. Louis. He graduated MD in 1981, his thesis addressing aspects of intestinal epithelial biology. He was appointed the inaugural Professor of Gastroenterology at Flinders University of South Australia, and Head, Gastrointestinal Services at Flinders Medical Centre and Repatriation General Hospital, Daw Park in 1997. In 2002, he was additionally appointed as Director of Development, Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer Care, Prevention and Research.
He has been actively involved in research, clinical care and academia in the broad area of gastrointestinal sciences for over twenty five years. He has an international reputation, especially in the area of bowel cancer and its prevention. He has published well over 100 scientific papers and other pieces which has included articles on intestinal epithelial biology, mechanisms of dietary prevention, screening and surveillance and public health issues related to bowel health and bowel cancer. He is the editor of several comprehensive textbooks on the subject of the prevention of bowel cancer.
He heads a large research and clinical team which is integrated with that of his medical and surgical colleagues to form the Flinders Centre for Digestive Health. The funding for the Centre comes from hospital, university, government, industry and private sources. In addition, he has participated in and/or chairs national committees or boards of the NHMRC, Australian Cancer Society, National Cancer Control Initiative, and Gastroenterological Society of Australia, which have addressed the broad area of health and disease of the gastrointestinal tract. He has recently been appointed to the newly-formed National Screening Pilot Study Implementation Committee (Australia). All of these activities form the basis for his recent appointment to direct the cancer centre at Flinders. |
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MR SHANE LANDON
Shane is one of Australia's best known professional nutritionists with over ten years experience consulting to the Australian food industry. He is a member of the Dietitian's Association of Australia, the Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology and is an Accredited Practising Dietitian.
He has consulted to the Sydney Kings Basketball team and the Australian Rugby Union Team. In addition, leading communications agencies regularly seek Shane's advice when creating nutrition campaigns for their clients.
He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree, Post-Graduate Diploma in Nutrition and Dietetics, a Graduate Certificate in Marketing and a Master of Business Administration degree from Macquarie University.
Shane has extensive media experience, including a weekly nutrition program on 2UE with John Stanley plus a number of television appearances. In addition to his regular radio segment, Shane has authored a number of nutrition articles for popular Women's magazines including Family Circle, New Idea, New Women and Super Food Ideas reinforcing his credentials as a reputable and highly skilled expert on nutrition, food and health.
In addition to his extensive media activities, Shane also manages a communications consultancy specialising in the field of effective nutrition and health communications.
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