The Rank Prize Funds were set up in 1972 to foster Lord Rank's interests which included science in human and animal nutrition. The Rank Nutrition Lecture, which was first introduced to the Diabetes UK Professional Conference programme in 2007, is specifically focused on nutrition.
The Rank Nutrition Lecture is scheduled to take place within the conference on Wednesday 13 March 2013 at 16.00 - 16.40.
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Rank Nutrition Lecture 2013
Lecturer: Prof. Michael Lean, Human Nutrition, University of Glasgow
'The high road to paradigm paradiabetes'
An abstract of the lecture can be found here.
Professor Lean holds the Chair of Human Nutrition at the University of Glasgow and Consultant Physician at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He trained in medicine at the University of Cambridge and St Bartholomew’s Hospital specialising in general medicine, diabetes and endocrinology.
His early clinical training was mainly in London, Aberdeen, returning to Cambridge to join the Medical Research Council and University of Cambridge Dunn Nutrition Unit, to develop a research career in nutrition, specialising in diabetes, obesity and energy balance. In 1990, he was appointed to lead and develop a new university department of Human Nutrition, in Glasgow.
Professor Lean has increasingly become involved in public health and health promotion measures to prevent disease, and to promote good health through health eating, including writing a weekly column for the Sunday Herald in 2001-2002. From 1995 to 2003, he was a non-executive director of the Health Education Board for Scotland. As a co-author of many clinical guidelines, he was central to the Scottish Diet Working Group and a co-author/advisor of the Diet Action Plan and SIGN guidelines on Obesity published in 1996 and 2010. From 2002 to 2007, he was Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Research of the Food Standards Agency (London) and he was on the expert advisory panel of the Joint Health Claims Initiative.
He was a founder of Counterweight, the national primary care weight management programme and completed a six-month Leverhulme fellowship in Denver, Colorado, to develop approaches for preventing obesity and its clinical consequences. This work is seeing fruitful progress in New Zealand, through his founding involvement in the Centre for Translational Research in Chronic Diseases at the University of Otago.
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