Dr Adrian Brown

NIHR Advanced Fellow University College London

Dr Adrian Brown is a NIHR Advanced Fellow and Senior Research Fellow/Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics in the Centre of Obesity Research at University College London and programme co-lead of the MSc Dietetics (Pre-registration) course at UCL. He is also a Senior Specialist Weight Management and Bariatric dietitian with over 17 years of clinical experience and a PhD in Medicine from Imperial College London.

His research interests centre around obesity, type 2 diabetes, bariatric surgery, weight stigma, food insecurity and sustainability in people living with obesity and the use of formula-based diets in different patient populations. With his NIHR Advanced fellowship focussing on weight loss in people living with obesity and kidney failure on haemodialysis prior to kidney transplant. While working in the NHS, he helped set up the dietetic services within a regional specialist weight management service (Tier-3) where he was the dietetic service lead. There he designed a series of innovative group sessions for patients within a Tier-3 service, with his evaluation of these groups being one of the few published papers evaluating Tier 3 services within the UK.

Dr Brown is Chair of the Specialist Obesity Group for the British Dietetic Association, an Honorary Academic for Office for Health Improvement and Disparities,
on the board of Trustees for the Academy of Nutrition Science, the strategic council for APPG on Obesity, Steering Committee for Obesity Empowerment Network and the scientific council of the British Nutrition Foundation. He is also Associated Editor for Clinical Obesity.