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Executive Team and Staff

CORE Organisational Chart

The centre is lead by an Executive Team that integrates the essential scientific disciplines necessary for obesity research and education. The Executive Team is made up of the Director (Professor Paul O'Brien) and a number of staff from within the CORE group.

Executive Team:

Paul O'Brian Photo

Professor Paul O’Brien

Professor Paul O’Brien is Director of the Centre for Obesity Research and Education. His areas of expertise include: The morbidity of obesity and the health benefits of weight loss; laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding procedures; treatments for obesity and their relative effectiveness; effects of obesity and weight loss on survival.

Professor O’Brien can be contacted on +61 3 9903 0721 or +61 3 9520 9520.
Wendy Brown Photo

Associate Professor Wendy Brown  is the Deputy Director for the Centre for Obesity Research and Education.Her areas of expertise include: laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding procedures,the effects of weight loss on health and upper gastrointestinal surgery with a primary focus on oesophagogastric junction and obesity.

A/Professor Brown can be contacted via her Secretary on +613 9903 0725.
Anna Peeters Photo

Dr Anna Peeters is a VicHealth Research Fellow in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine at Monash University. Her areas of expertise are chronic disease, aging and medical demography, with particular focus on the population implications of overweight and cardiovascular disease.
Melissa Hayden Photo

Dr Melissa Hayden is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Obesity Research and Education. Her areas of expertise are the psychological effects of obesity with a particular focus on depression and mood disorders, discrimination and stigmatisation as a result of being overweight.

Dr Hayden can be contacted via email at melissa.hayden@med.monash.edu.au

Cheryl Laurie Photo Ms Cheryl Laurie  is a senior research nurse in the Centre for Obesity Research and Education. She has had many years of experience in co-ordination and administration of clinical trials mostly associated with treatment of obesity both medically and surgically.

CORE Staff:

The Centre is further supported by a dedicated team of research and administrative staff.

  • Ms Tania Richter (Secretary to A/Prof Wendy Brown/CORE Administrative Manager)
  • Ms Julie Playfair (Clinical Research Nurse)
  • Mrs Margaret Anderson (Data Manager)
  • Ms Kristine Egberts (Research Assistant – PhD Candidate)
  • Ms Danielle Franke-Richard (Research Assistant)
  • Mr Paul Burton (Surgeon and PhD Candidate)
  • Dr Lisa Doyle (PhD Candidate) 
  • Ms Sarah Birks (Master of Surgery Candidate)
  • Mr Kent Lavery (BMed Sci Student)