About the Chair
International Academic Board
- Nutrition / Lifestyle
- Edward Horton
- Director of Clinical Research, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, MA, USA
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- Robert Ross
- Professor, Queen’s University, School of Physical and Health Education/Medicine, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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- Basic Science
- Vincenzo Di Marzo
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Endocannabinoid Research Group, Pozzuoli, Italy
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- George Kunos
- Scientific Director, NIAAA/NIH, Lab. Physiol, Studies, Neuroendocrinology Section, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Abdominal Obesity
- Michael Jensen
- Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Yuji Matsuzawa
- Director, Professor Emeritus Osaka University, Somitomo Hospital, Osaka, Japan
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- Luc Van Gaal
- Professor, Antwerp University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Diabetology, Metabolism and Clinical Nutrition, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Lipids
- Christie Ballantyne
- Director, Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Atherosclerosis, Houston, TX, USA
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- John Brunzell
- University of Washington, Department of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Ronald Krauss
- Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Atherosclerosis Research, Oakland, CA, USA
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- Diabetes
- Juliana Chan
- Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Shatin, Hong Kong, China
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- Ulf Smith
- Professor of Internal Medicine, The Lundberg Laboratory for Diabetes Research, Center of Excellence for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research, Sahlgrenska Academy, Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden
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- Marja-Riitta Taskinen
- Professor of Medicine, Helsinki University Hospital, Biomedicum, Helsinki, Finland
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- Hypertension
- Luis Miguel Ruilope
- Hospital 12 de Octubre, hypertension Unit, Madrid, Spain
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- Arya Sharma
- Professor of Medicine and Chair for Obesity Research and Management, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Cardiology
- Richard Nesto
- Chairman, Cardiovascular Medicine, Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Heart and Vascular Center, Burlington, MA, USA
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- Jorge Plutzky
- Director, the Vascular Disease Prevention Program, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Department of Medicine/Cardiovascular Division, Boston, MA, USA
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- Ph. Gabriel Steg
- Professor, Centre Hospitalier Bichat Claude Bernard, Cardiology, Paris, France
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