Job title: Head of the School of Psychology
Prof Jason Halford is Head of the School of Psychology at the University of Leeds, and President of the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO). His research has focused on eating behaviour and weight management, and the role of psychological factors in weight gain and weight loss, with a recent focus on stress and coping.
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Job title: Assistant Professor of Medicine
Neha J Pagidipati is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and cardiovascular disease prevention specialist. Since 2011, she has conducted research on cardiometabolic disease prevention, lifestyle modification and weight management. She is currently an NIH K12 scholar in Implementation and Dissemination Science.
Dr Pagidipati is building the Duke Cardiometabolic Disease Prevention Program, which…
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Dr Marc Evans is a Consultant Diabetologist at the University Hospital Llandough and previously a lecturer in diabetes and endocrinology at the University of Wales College of Medicine.
Dr Evans has multiple ongoing academic and clinical interests, particularly in relation to the health economics of chronic disease. He has been involved in various innovative studies evaluating different aspects…
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Job title: Director of the Obesity, Metabolism & Nutrition Institute
Dr Lee Kaplan is Director of the Obesity, Metabolism & Nutrition Institute, founding director of the Weight Center at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Dr Kaplan's clinical expertise is in the areas of obesity medicine, gastroenterology and liver disease. The author of more than 150 medical and scientific papers, he has a special…
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Job title: Professor of Medicine
Dr Robert Eckel is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Colorado, US.Dr Eckel has held appointments such as the Charles A. Boettcher II Endowed Chair in atherosclerosis research at the University of Colorado, director of the Lipid Clinic at University of Colorado Hospital, and program director of the…
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Dr McDermott has devoted her career to advancing our understanding of peripheral artery disease (PAD), making significant contributions to medical knowledge in this field. As the Jeremiah Stamler Professor of Medicine and a professor of preventive medicine in epidemiology at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, she is a board-certified general internal medicine physician and a…
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