Editors

Editor-in-Chief

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  Nikhil Dhurandhar MS, LCEH, PhD, FTOS

  Texas Tech University, Lubbock, United States
  • Biography

    Former president of The Obesity Society (2014-2015), current professor and chair of the department of Nutritional Sciences and Helen Devitt Jones Endowed Chair at Texas Tech University, Nikhil Dhurandhar has over 37 years of experience as a physician and nutritional biochemist. During this time, he treated over 15,000 patients for obesity. Having published over 160 scientific articles and book chapters, and received 47 patents, Nikhil also coined the term "Infectobesity" to describe obesity of infectious origin. His research team was the first to identify adipogenic effects of adenoviruses that cause obesity in animals, and are associated with obesity in humans and non-human primates. His team also identified a novel adenoviral protein that is being investigated for its potential as an anti-diabetic drug. His current research focuses on molecular biological aspects of obesity and diabetes, as well as clinical treatment of obesity. His life and work have been featured by numerous media outlets and documentaries, including the New York Times, National Geographic, BBC-UK, and CNN.

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  David Stensel BA(Hons), MSc, PhD

  Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
  • Biography

    David is Professor of Exercise Metabolism in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University, UK, where he has worked in a variety of roles (including Associate Dean for Research and Associate Dean for Enterprise) since 1999. Prior to this David worked as an Assistant Professor in the School of Physical Education at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore (1993 to 1999). David has researched topics relating to physical activity, health, and obesity for over 30 years, beginning with his PhD work (sponsored by the British Heart Foundation) which examined exercise and lipid metabolism. More recently David’s work has focused on appetite hormones and central (brain) appetite responses to exercise. Much of David’s work has been completed within the NIHR funded Leicester Biomedical Research Centre. David is co-editor of the textbook Physical Activity and Health: The Evidence Explained which is widely used on exercise science courses in the UK and internationally. In addition to David’s position at Loughborough University, he is Professor of Exercise Metabolism in the Faculty of Sport Sciences at Waseda University, Japan, and he holds an Adjunct Professorship in the Department of Sports Science and Physical Education at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. David is also a member of the British Nutrition Foundation Scientific Committee.

  • Research website

    • https://www.lboro.ac.uk/schools/sport-exercise-health-sciences/people/david-stensel/

Associate Editors

• Andrew W. Brown PhD

  University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, United States
  • Biography

    Andrew W Brown, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Biostatistics Core Director for the Center for Childhood Obesity Prevention with Arkansas Children’s Research Institute. He has conducted research using simulation, in vitro, ex vivo, animal, and human observational and interventional models. He conducts “research on research” through qualitative and quantitative research summaries, characterizing reporting practices that perpetuate scientific misinformation, and evaluating methodological and statistical choices that may lead to misinterpreted research. He has received local, regional, and national recognition, including the Mead Johnson Award from the American Society for Nutrition for work accomplished within 10 years of postgraduate training. He is a Fellow of The Obesity Society, and has served in leadership roles with the American Society for Nutrition, The Obesity Society, and the American Public Health Association, and is a member of AAAS, American Statistical Association, and Sigma Xi. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Biochemistry from Iowa State University with a graduate minor in Statistics, earned his doctoral degree from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln in the Interdepartmental Nutrition Program with a minor in Statistics, and completed postdoctoral training with the UAB Nutrition Obesity Research Center, emphasizing meta-research, rigor, reproducibility, and transparency.

  • ORCiD Profile

    • https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1758-8205
• Carl-Erik Flodmark MD, PhD

  Lund University, Lund, Sweden
  • Biography

    Carl-Erik Flodmark, MD, Ph D and associated Professor/Reader (Docent) at Lund University, Sweden has been treating childhood obesity since 1986 and presented his thesis on this subject in 1993. A regional Childhood Obesity Unit was started as a project in 2001 at Skåne University Hospital in Malmö. In 2004 the Unit became an official tertiary referral center for the Skåne Region, Sweden and since 2006 its responsibilities increased to cover the Hospital Regional Collaboration of South of Sweden. From 2002 until 2004 he was the President of the National Swedish Family Therapy Association. He has over 40 years of experience as a physician and treated over 3000 children for obesity. Currently he serves as peer reviewer for several journals. He has developed a new treatment model for childhood obesity using solution focused brief therapy and structural family therapy (SOFT – Standardized Obesity Family Therapy). He has been the founding President of SPOC (Scandinavian Pediatric Obesity Conference), which organized the pediatric satellite meeting at the International Conference on Obesity in Stockholm in 2010. He is also a board member and from 2012 until 2016 the President of the Swedish Association for the study of Obesity and a board member of the Pediatric Obesity Association of the Swedish Medical Association since 2015. Since 2015 he is working as a medical officer at the National Board of Health and Welfare but still continuing obesity research at Skåne University Hospital in Malmö. In 2016 he was co-chair of the program organizing committee of European Obesity Summit in Gothenburg, Sweden.

• Sujoy Ghosh PhD

  Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, United States
  • Biography

    Dr. Sujoy Ghosh is an Associate Professor in the Program for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disorders and Centre for Computatinal Biology at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. He also directs the Laboratory of Computational Biology at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, USA. Dr. Ghosh obtained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from University of Notre Dame, USA, and completed postdoctoral training at Duke University, USA. Prior to arriving at Singapore, Sujoy was a Group Leader and Medical Genetics Advisor at GlaxoSmithKline, USA. He was also a Senior Research Scientist and Director of Research at the Center for Translational Health Equality Research at North Carolina Central University, USA. Dr. Ghosh’s research employs integrative bioinformatics and machine learning tools for investigating the genetic and genomic architectures underlying cardiometabolic disorders, with a special focus on biological pathways and interaction networks, and with the goal of identifying and functionally validating novel disease gene candidates and biomarkers of disease processes. His lab collaborates extensively with national and international investigators for analysis and interpretation of complex next generation sequencing datasets from diverse therapeutic areas. Dr. Ghosh has published over 125 peer reviewed articles and received competitive funding from the NIDDK, NIMHD, American Heart Association and Ministry of Education, Singapore.

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  Elanor C. Hinton PhD

  University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
  • Biography

    Elanor Hinton is a Senior Research Fellow at the NIHR Bristol Biomedical Research Centre at the University of Bristol. A psychologist by background, Elanor was awarded a BA in Psychology from the University of Sheffield, followed by a MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience from Imperial College, and received her doctoral degree from the University of Cambridge. Post-doctoral research positions at Cardiff University and the University of Bristol consolidated her continuing interest in understanding the regulation of appetite and obesity, with a view to designing and testing novel interventions for weight management to help young people and adults living with overweight and obesity. Recent grant awards include NIHR Research for Patient Benefit funding to co-develop a novel therapeutic intervention for young people living with obesity based on acceptance and commitment therapy. In 2022, Elanor started a second role as Head of Clinical Research and Operations at Oxford Medical Products Ltd, a UK-based Medtech company who has developed a gastroretentive hydrogel platform technology. Elanor managed the early-phase trials of the hydrogel for weight loss, and is designing future trials to test the medical device for other applications in weight management. Elanor is a member of the Obesity Society and British Feeding and Drinking Group, and was awarded the Association for the Study of Obesity’s Ken Clare award for excellence in patient and public involvement and engagement with obesity research at the UK Congress of Obesity. With over 20 years’ experience in the field of appetite and obesity, Elanor has published over 45 peer-reviewed papers and reviews, and regularly contributes to the advancement of the field through paper and grant reviews.

  • ORCiD Profile

    • https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2793-8552
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  James A. King BSc, PhD

  Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
  • Biography

    James King is a Senior Lecturer in Exercise Physiology within the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University in the UK. Prior to this appointment, James undertook several years of post-doctoral research within the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre. Broadly, his research interests surround the ability of exercise and diet to prevent and manage obesity-related metabolic disease. Specific areas of active enquiry include the interaction between exercise, appetite regulation and energy balance, as well as the therapeutic effects of diet and exercise within type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). James has published over sixty peer-reviewed original articles, reviews and book chapters.

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  Elisa (Nicole Elisa Larson) Larson PhD, MPH, RND, LD

  Nutritional Sciences, Texas Tech University, Texas, United States
• Nicola Santoro MD, PhD

  Pediatric Endocrinology & Diabetes, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, United States
  • Biography

    Nicola Santoro is a Pediatrician with a research interest in obesity and its metabolic complications. He is currently studying the effect of gut microbiome on the body composition and the metabolic pathways leading to obesity, type 2 diabetes and nonalcoholic fatty liver (NAFLD) in obese youth. He is also interested in defining the metabolic phenotype of youth with NAFLD and testing how common and rare variants in certain genes (PNPLA3, GCKR, TM6SF2 etc.) may interact with the environment to convey susceptibility to pediatric fatty liver disease. His research is funded by NIH, AHA, JDRF and Allen foundation. He serves as peer reviewer for several journals and funding agencies.

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  Margriet Westerterp-Plantenga PhD

  Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
  • Biography

    Prof. dr. M. S. Westerterp Plantenga is Professor of Food Intake Regulation in Humans at Maastricht University, Faculty of Health, Medicine, Life Sciences, Nutrim, The Netherlands. Her research focuses on energy-homeostasis and reward-homeostasis. This encompasses the neuro-endocrinology of food-intake, energy expenditure and substrate oxidation, and the role of circadian rhythm and sleep, in the perspective of body-weight regulation and obesity. Margriet Westerterp-Plantenga participated in European projects, such as Diogenes, Full4Health, and PREVIEW. She has been a member of several editorial boards, scientific committees and of the Faculty Board of the Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Life sciences of Maastricht University.

Statistics Associate Editors

• David B. Allison PhD

  Chief of Nutrition and Director, USDA-ARS, Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, United States
  • Biography

    David B. Allison joined the faculty of the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2001 where he is currently Distinguished Professor, Quetelet Endowed Professor of Public Health, Associate Dean for Science, Director of Office of Energetics, and Director of the NIH-funded Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC). He received his Ph.D. from Hofstra University in 1990. He then completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a second post-doctoral fellowship at the NIH-funded New York Obesity Research Center at St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital Center. He has authored over 450 scientific publications and edited five books. He has won several awards, including the 2002 Lilly Scientific Achievement Award from The Obesity Society (TOS) and in 2009, he was awarded the Centrum Award from the American Society of Nutrition (ASN) and the TOPS research achievement award from the Obesity Society. In 2013, he was awarded the Alabama Academy of Science's "Wright A. Gardner" award and the American Society of Nutrition's (ASN) "Dannon Institute Mentorship" award and was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2007. He serves or has served on numerous editorial boards of including the European Journal of Clinical Investigation, Obesity and Plos One. Dr. Allison is also proud to be the founding Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Genetics. Dr. Allison's research interests include obesity, quantitative genetics, clinical trials, and statistical and research methodology. He also serves as a frequent consultant and expert witness in the legal setting.

  • ORCiD Profile

    • https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3566-9399
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  Darren Greenwood BSc, MSc, PhD

  School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
  • Biography

    Darren Greenwood is a Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics in the School of Medicine at the University of Leeds. He is Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Nutritional Epidemiology at the University of Leeds and member of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, which advises Public Health England and other UK government organisations on nutrition and related health matters. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed publications and his research interests include statistical and epidemiological methods applied to nutrition and cardio-metabolic health; nutrition across the life course; measurement error and validation of dietary assessment tools; complex randomized controlled trials; meta-analysis; cohort pooling and analysis of individual participant data; and big data applied to physical activity and nutrition.

  • ORCiD Profile

    • https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7035-3096
• Diana Thomas PhD, FTOS

  United States Military Academy, West Point, United States
  • Biography

    Diana M. Thomas is a Professor at the United States Military Academy, West Point. Dr. Thomas has been an active research mathematician for over 30 years with a focus on nutrition and obesity related modeling. She has worked with large complex and high dimensional datasets and co-invented the remote weight loss program, SmartLoss™, which has been clinically applied world-wide to guide and improve individual patient weight loss adherence through smartphone technology. Dr. Thomas has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles and has led the development of over 10 freely accessible health calculators. Dr. Thomas is currently the PI of the Artificial Intelligence, Data Engineering & Machine Learning (AIDE-ML) Center for the Nutrition for Precision Health Consortium where she serves as a co-chair for the Steering Committee. She has held governance positions in the Obesity Society, the American Society of Nutrition, and the Mathematical Association of America. Dr. Thomas holds the 2012 Mathematical Association of American of NJ Distinguished Teaching Award, the 2015 Obesity Society George Bray Founder’s Award, and the 2023 American Mathematical Society Mary P. Dolciani Prize for Excellence in Research.

  • ORCiD Profile

    • https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2641-9304

Reviews Editor

Stefany D. Primeaux PhD

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans, New Orleans, United States

• Biography

  Dr. Stefany Primeaux is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) School of Medicine and serves as Curriculum Director for the Biomedical Sciences PhD Program. She earned her Ph.D. in Biopsychology from the University of Georgia and completed postdoctoral training in the areas of Physiology, Neuroscience and Obesity at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and Pennington Biomedical Research Center. Dr. Primeaux studies the biological and behavioral causes of obesity and its consequences for metabolic health, using both preclinical and clinical models to identify mechanisms that drive unhealthy eating patterns. Her research focuses on taste-related mechanisms that regulate dietary intake and food preferences, particularly their role in obesity and metabolic disease. She investigates how genetic variations influence taste perception and eating behavior, and how alcohol consumption impacts taste preferences, diet quality, and metabolic health. Her ultimate goal is to inform targeted interventions that improve nutrition and reduce the burden of metabolic disorders.

• ORCiD Profile

  • https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4323-681X

Editorial Board

• Anwar Abouelnasr MBBCh, MS, MD, MRCS

  Medical Research Institute, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt; Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, United Kingdom
• Saleh Alqahtani MD

  Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
• Jamy D. Ard MD, FTOS

  Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, United States
• Luis A. Moreno Aznar MD, PhD

  Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
• Jennifer Baker PhD

  University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Babu Balagopal PhD

  College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic in Florida, Jacksonville, United States; Nemours Children's Clinic, Jacksonville, United States
• Hans-Rudolf Berthoud PhD

  Neurobiology of Nutrition Laboratory, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, United States
• Martin Binks PhD, MBA

  Texas Tech University, Lubbock, United States
• Jennie Brand-Miller AO, FAA, PhD

  School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
• Stephen Burns PhD

  National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
• Winfield Scott Butsch MD

  Bariatric and Metabolic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, United States
• Weiqin Chen PhD

  Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, United States
• Sai Krupa Das PhD

  HNRCA, Tufts University, Medford, United States
• Emily Dhurandhar PhD

  Chief Scientific Officer, Obthera, Inc., Lubbock, United States
• Abdul Dulloo PhD

  University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland
• Myles Faith PhD

  Counseling, School and Educational Psychology, Graduate School of Education, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, United States
• Thayna R. Flores PhD

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States
• Elizabeth Floyd PhD

  Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, United States
• Angie Golden DNP, FNP-C, FAANP, FOMA

  Obesity Treatment Center, Arizona, United States
• David Gozal MD, MBA, PhD

  School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, United States
• Frank Greenway MD

  Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, United States
• Irena Aldhoon Hainerova MD, PhD

  Charles University, Prague, Czechia
• Martin Haluzik MD, DSc

  Institute of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czechia
• David Heal PhD, DSc

  DevelRx, Bio City, United Kingdom
• Andrew Hill PhD

  School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
• Joris Hoeks PhD

  Human Biology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands
• Johan Jocken PhD, MSc, BSc

  Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands
• Will Johnson BSc, PhD

  Epidemiology and Population Health, Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
• Fredrik Karpe MD, PhD

  University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
• John Kirwan PhD

  Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, United States
• Antje Körner MD

  Center of Pediatric Research Center, University Hospital for Children & Adolescents, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
• Robert Koza PhD

  Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Scarborough, United States
• Theodore Kyle RPh, MBA

  ConscienHealth, Pittsburgh, United States
• Blandine Laferrère MD, PhD

  Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, United States
• Martine Laville MD, PhD

  Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Villeurbanne, France
• Michael Lean MA, MB, MBCHir, MD, FRCP, FRSE

  University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
• Nader Lessan MBBS, MD, FRCP

  Imperial College London Diabetes Centre, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
• Gang Liu PhD

  Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
• Clare Llewellyn MA (Oxon) GDip, MSc, PhD, CPsychol FHEA

  Department of Behavioural Science and Health, University College London, London, United Kingdom
• David Mela PhD

  Unilever (Netherlands), Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• Masashi Miyashita PhD

  Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
• Giovanna Muscogiuri MD, PhD

  Endocrinology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
• Jae-Hwan Nam PhD

  Department of Biotechnology, Catholic University of Pusan, Busan, South Korea
• Brian Oldfield PhD

  Professor Emeritus, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
• Susan Ozanne BSc (Hons), PhD

  Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Taesun Park PhD

  Department of Food and Nutrition, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
• Magdalena Pasarica MD, PhD

  College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, United States
• Paolo Piaggi PhD, FTOS

  National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States
• Angelo Pietrobelli MD

  Medical School, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
• Oliver Rider MD, PhD

  Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom; University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
• Eric Robinson PhD

  Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
• Mikael Ryden MD, PhD

  Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
• Sylvia Santosa PhD, RD

  Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
• Jaswinder Sethi DPhil(Oxon)

  Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
• Arya Sharma MD

  University of Alberta Department of Medicine, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton, Canada
• John Speakman PhD, DSc

  The School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
• Fatima Stanford MD, MPH, MPA, MBA

  Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, United States
• June Stevens MS, PhD, FTOS

  Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
• Carolyn Summerbell BsC, PhD

  Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
• Shahrad Taheri BSc, MSc, MBBS, PhD, FRCP

  Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Doha, Qatar
• Jennifer Teske PhD

  Nutritional Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, United States
• Leonardo Trasande MD, MPP

  Pediatrics, NYU School of Medicine, New York, United States
• Angelo Tremblay PhD

  Kinesiology, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
• Licio Velloso MD, PhD

  Laboratory of Cell Signaling, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil
• Lee Weinstein MD

  Metabolic Diseases Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, United States
• Denise Wilfley PhD

  Department of Psychiatry, Washington University in St. Louis, St Louis, United States
• Kenneth Wilkins PhD

  NIH Biostatistics Program, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, United States
• Scott A. Willis PhD

  Diabetes Research Centre, College of Life Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
• Jack Yanovski MD, PhD

  Growth and Obesity, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States
• Franciskos Arsenyadis BSc, MPH, RD

  Diabetes Research Centre, College of Life Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
• Gaurav M. Kudchadkar MBBS, PhD

  Department of Nutritional Sciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, United States

Statistical Editorial Board

• John Dawson PhD

  Economics, Applied Statistics and International Business, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, United States
• Amanda Fairchild PhD

  Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, United States
• Andrew Gray BCom(Hons), BA

  Biostatistics Unit, Division of Health Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
• Jaroslaw Harezlak PhD

  Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States
• Eric Loken PhD

  Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Pennsylvania State University, State College, United States
• Todd Schwartz DrPH

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States
• Alistair McNair Senior PhD

  The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
• Diane Threapleton PhD

  Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom