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Professor Nicola Heslehurst
Position - President and Chair of the Operations Management Team
Dr Nicola Heslehurst is a Senior Lecturer in Maternal Nutrition and NIHR Advanced Fellow at Newcastle University, and has been an ASO Trustee since 2014. Nicola is the current Chair of the ASO Board of Trustees, and formerly held ... Read more
Dr Zainab Akhter
Position - Communications Intern
Dr Zainab Akhter is a Research Associate at Newcastle University. Her research interests include: the preconception, pregnancy and postnatal periods, nutrition, obesity, and bariatric surgery. She is currently working on a NIHR SPHR ... Read more
Sadia Ali
Position - Communications Lead
Sadia Ali is a senior researcher and adviser in the House of Commons. Her background includes extensive experience in legislative scrutiny, political communication, and national and international policy development. Sadia's policy ... Read more
Ken Clare
Ken is PPIE led at Leeds Beckett University and cofounder of the Obesity Voices Hub, and will be co-presenting with Louise Ells, on the lived experience work we have codeveloped over the past 5 years. Ken has a lifelong experience of ... Read more
Professor Emilie Combet
Position - President Elect
Emilie Combet is a professor of human nutrition at the University of Glasgow, where she leads a research team investigating the impact of diet on health and disease. Read more
Dr Claudia Coelho
Position - COMs lead
Dr Claudia Coelho has been a locum Consultant Diabetologist and Obesity Physician at Guy's and St Thomas since 2022. Her clinical work involves managing patients with obesity in the South East London Tier 3 weight management programme ... Read more
Dr Ehtasham Ahmad
Position - Clinical Practice and Obesity Management Sub-Committee - Adult COMs
Dr Ehtasham Ahmad is a consultant in Diabetes and Tier 3 Specialist Weight Management Service at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. He has completed his training in Diabetes and Endocrinology (CCT) from institutions like ... Read more
Dr Janine Makaronidis
Position - Sponsorship Lead
Janine Makaronidis is a Consultant in Diabetes and Metabolism at Barts Health NHS Trust (Royal London and St Bartholomew’s Hospitals) with a special interest in obesity and metabolic disease. She leads the regional specialist weight ... Read more
Dr Jordan Beaumont
Position - UKCO Deputy Lead/Administrator
Dr Jordan Beaumont is a Registered Nutritionist (RNutr) (Public Health) and lecturer in food and nutrition at Sheffield Hallam University, where he leads the Sheffield Hallam Appetite Research (SHARe) cluster. His research explores ... Read more
Dr Julie Sittlington
Position - Operations Secretary
Julie is a Research Associate and Core Technologies Officer at Ulster University. She is affiliated with the Nutrition Innovation Centre for Food & Health (NICHE) where she is a member of their Obesity, Energy Balance and Food ... Read more
Dr Kath Roberts
Position - Communication, Partnerships and Networks Sub-Committee Chair
Emilie Combet is a professor of human nutrition at the University of Glasgow, where she leads a research team investigating the impact of diet on health and disease. Read more
Dr Laura Gray
Position - Strategic Review Lead
Laura is an econometrician specialising in obesity related research. She is an early career researcher (ECR) with a strong interest in researching obesity throughout the lifecourse, acknowledging that experiences at an early age can ... Read more
Dr Lily Hawkins
Position - UKCO support officer
Lily is a Chartered Psychologist with a PhD in eating behaviour and a background in health psychology. She currently works at the University of Exeter (in conjunction with University of Plymouth) as a postdoctoral researcher on the ... Read more
Dr Rhodri King
Dr Rhodri King is a Consultant Physician with an interest in diabetes and obesity at Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton. Rhodri is the Clinical Lead for the weight management service at Musgrove Park Hospital and is South West regional ... Read more
Dr Sally Abbott
Position - Paediatric COMs
Sally Abbott is the Children’s Transformation Obesity Clinical Lead for NHS England, an Assistant Professor at Coventry University and Clinical Lead Dietitian at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust. Her PhD ... Read more
Dr Shokraneh Moghadam
Position - ECR Lead
Dr Shokraneh Moghadam has a PhD in Psychology and is a Chartered Psychologist, and an associate fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her interests and expertise are in health psychology, including the design, development and ... Read more
Professor Louisa Ells
Louisa Ells is Professor of Obesity, and Co-Director of the Obesity Institute at Leeds Beckett University. She is a registered public health nutritionist and Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health, with a specialist interest in ... Read more
Professor Paul Gately
Position - Trustee
Paul Gately is Director of MoreLife a subsidiary company of Leeds Beckett University. He is the Co-Director of the Obesity Institute and a Professor of Exercise and Obesity at Leeds Beckett University. Read more
Dr Jules Goodlet-Rowley
Jules has led the unit in Scottish Government for almost 5 years and has worked across a diverse range of government policy areas since 2008. Her areas of responsibility are broad but within diet she is currently working on how policy ... Read more
Professor Yitka Graham
Position - Trustee
Yitka Graham is a Professor of Health Services Research and Head of the Helen McArdle Nursing and Care Research Institute at the University of Sunderland. Her research focuses on the patient experiences of living with metabolic and ... Read more
Claire Hislop
Claire is a registered public health nutritionist who has worked in the public health field in Scotland for over twenty five years. Her current role is as Organisational Lead – Food & Physical Activity at Public Health Scotland ... Read more
Dr Sandra Isibor
Position - Honorary Secretary
Dr Isibor is a certified lifestyle Medicine physician and also completed a post graduate diploma in Obesity and Weight Management. Read more
Jo Howe
Position - Operations Secretary
Dr Jo Howe is a chartered psychologist and academic researcher specialising in psychopharmacology. Her work focuses on the physical health impacts of psychotropic medications, particularly antipsychotics, and their association with ... Read more
Katharine Pidd
Position - ECR Lead
Katharine Pidd is a health economist at the University of Sheffield involved in research that evaluates interventions for obesity and type 2 diabetes. This work utilises modelling techniques to simulate long run health outcomes and ... Read more
Kristina Vavura
Position - Research and Scientific Advisory Sub-Committee - UKCO Deputy Lead
Kristina Vavura is SCOPE-certified and HCPC-Registered Dietitian with a passion for clinical dietetics, weight management, and public health. She is part of the Advisory Board of Nutritank and the Association of the Study for ... Read more
Mr Patrick McGinley
Position - Treasurer
I joined the NHS in 1983 as a Trainee Accountant, and despite some evidence to the contrary, in my heart I remain a trainee, trying to learn a little more each day. Read more
Ms Aileen McGloin
Position - Deputy Chair
Dr. Aileen McGloin was appointed as Director of Nutrition for Safefood in March, 2022 having acted as Marketing and Communications Director for the previous four years. Read more
Dr Laura McGowan
Position - UKCO Lead
As a psychologist, my research focuses on theory-based behavior change interventions to improve diet and nutrition status and to prevent and manage obesity, in a variety of population groups. I have a particular interest in the ... Read more
Professor Alexander Miras
Position - Clinical Practice and Obesity Management Sub-Committee Chair
Alex Miras is Professor of Endocrinology at Ulster University. His clinical and research work focus solely on Obesity and type 2 diabetes. Read more
Dr Julia Mueller
Position - SC chair
Julia Mueller is a Senior Research Associate at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge. She works within a programme on “Prevention of Diabetes and Related Metabolic Disorders in High Risk Groups”. Julia holds a BSc in ... Read more
Ms Mary O’Kane
Position - Chair of the Board of Trustees
Mary is an Honorary Consultant Dietitian in Adult Obesity, Leeds Teaching Hospitals and a Fellow of the British Dietetic Association. Read more
Rob Oxley
Position - Communications Intern
Rob Oxley is a Research Trainee in the Public Health Nutrition team at the University of York. Robs research explores the ways in which system-level processes can be reformed to increase access to food, improve health and reduce ... Read more
Associate Professor Dimitrios Papamargaritis
Position - COMs Lead
Dimitris Papamargaritis is Associate Professor and Honorary Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology at University of Leicester/ University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group (Kettering General Hospital) with special interest in ... Read more
Dr Ruth Price
Position - Operations Secretary Lead
Ruth Price is a Research Fellow at the Nutrition Innovation Centre for Food and Health (NICHE) at Ulster University. Her research area spans both prevention and treatment and in measuring body composition, food choice, intake and ... Read more
Professor Maria Bryant
Position - Co-opted Trustee
Maria is a Professor of Public Health Nutrition based at the University of York and the Bradford Institute of Health Research. She is a nutritionist with over 20 years’ experience in the design and delivery of trials and related ... Read more
Dr Gillian Purdon
Dr Gillian Purdon manages a team of registered public health nutritionists to publish a robust national picture of trends in diet and nutrition and disseminate the science and evidence base to influence public health nutrition policy ... Read more
Professor Naveed Sattar
Naveed Sattar, Professor of Cardiometabolic Medicine at the University of Glasgow, UK, is internationally recognised in cardiometabolic disease, with epidemiology, mechanistic and trial expertise. He has contributed to several other ... Read more
John Speakman
Speakman's work focuses on the causes and consequences of variation in energy balance, and in particular the factors that limit expenditure, the genetic and environmental drivers of obesity and the energetic contribution to ... Read more
Dr Dawn Swancutt
Position - Networks Lead
As a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Plymouth, Dawn works in multi-disciplinary settings, having a keen interest in mixed methods research and representing patients’ experience of care. Her research focus is on patient ... Read more
Hao Tang
Position - Communications Intern
Hao is a PhD student at the MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge. Her research explores the impact of social media on eating attitudes and behaviours among teenagers and young adults, with the aim of developing a social ... Read more
Ms Ann Vincent
Position - Trustee
Ann Vincent’s journey with obesity began at the age of 5, blending lived experience with academic expertise in her work on obesity research. After earning a BSc in Psychology in 2018, Ann focused her dissertation on self-worth and ... Read more
Dr Anjali Zalin
Position - Co-opted Trustee
Dr Anjali Zalin is an experienced, award-winning clinician with a specialist interest in obesity management. She was awarded a 1st class degree and Harvey prize for outstanding academic achievement from Queen Mary and Westfield, ... Read more
