International Academic Board

Nutrition / Lifestyle

Edward Horton: Director of Clinical Research, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, MA, USA; See resume

Frank B. Hu: Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; See resume

Robert Ross: Professor, Queen’s University, School of Physical and Health Education/Medicine, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; See resume

Basic Science

Vincenzo Di Marzo: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Endocannabinoid Research Group, Pozzuoli, NA, Italy; See resume

George Kunos: Scientific Director, NIAAA/NIH, Lab. Physiol, Studies, Neuroendocrinology Section, Bethesda, MD, USA; See resume

Abdominal Obesity

Michael Jensen: Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, MN, USA; See resume

Yuji Matsuzawa: Director, Professor Emeritus Osaka University, Somitomo Hospital, Osaka, Japan; See resume

Luc Van Gaal: Professor, Antwerp University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Diabetology, Metabolism and Clinical Nutrition, Antwerp, Belgium; See resume

Lipids

Christie Ballantyne: Director, Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Atherosclerosis, Houston, TX, USA; See resume

John Brunzell: University of Washington, Department of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA; See resume

Ronald Krauss: Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, Atherosclerosis Research, Oakland, CA, USA; See resume

Diabetes

Juliana Chan: Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Shatin, Hong Kong, China; See resume

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; See resume

Marja-Riitta Taskinen: Professor of Medicine, Helsinki University Hospital, Biomedicum, Helsinki, Finland; See resume

Nicholas John Wareham: Director, Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge, United Kingdom; See resume

Hypertension

Luis Miguel Ruilope: Hospital 12 de Octubre, Hypertension Unit, Madrid, Spain; See resume

Arya Sharma: Professor of Medicine and Chair for Obesity Research and Management, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; See resume

Cardiology

Richard Nesto: Chairman, Cardiovascular Medicine, Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Heart and Vascular Center, Burlington, MA, USA; See resume

Jorge Plutzky: Director, the Vascular Disease Prevention Program, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Department of Medicine/Cardiovascular Division, Boston, MA, USA; See resume

Paul Poirier: Associate Professor, Faculty of Pharmacy, Université Laval, Québec City, Quebec, Canada; See resume

Ph. Gabriel Steg: Professor, Centre Hospitalier Bichat-Claude Bernard, Department of Cardiology, Paris, France; See resume

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