Scientific Advisory Board

The centre is further supported by a Scientific Advisory Board which is chaired by the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and constitutes the CORE Executive team, and several other professionals who work in the area of obesity. The board was established to assist the Director and Executive Board in the development and growth of the Centre. The board members are as follows:

Professor Edward Byrne (Chair): Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University.

Professor Napier Thomson (member): Head of the Department of Medicine and Head of School for the Central and Eastern Clinical School at Monash University.

Professor Paul Zimmet (member): Director, International Diabetes Institute and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Monash University.

Professor Joseph Proietto (member): Professor of Medicine at The University of Melbourne.

Professor John McNeil (member): Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at Monash University.

Associate Professor Melissa Wake (member): Director of Research and Public Health at the Centre for Community Child Health.

and the CORE Executive Team.