Prof. Anoop misra is the director of department of diabetes & metabolic diseases, fortis hospitals, New Delhi. He has been a faculty at the department of endocrinology and human nutrition at the southwestern medical center in Dallas, texas, USA, and former professor of medicine, all india institute of medical sciences, new delhi.

Prof. Misra has been a member of world health organization and indian council of medical research expert groups for childhood obesity, fatty liver, diabetes, and gestational diabetes and member, governing committee, national institute of nutrition and national nutrition monitoring bureau, india. He has been a key member for national control programs for diabetes and cardiovascular disease, india, founding member, diabetes in asia group, and is secretary, treasurer and steering committee member of prestigious magnuson’s global diabetes research alliance.

Prof. Misra has published more than 250 scientific papers in the international journals. He has been awarded highest award for medicine in India dr bc roy award (2006) and prestigious national honor , padma shree (2007). Recently he was awarded ‘spirit of humanity award’ for most outstanding contribution to diabetes in India. He has given 14 named orations in india and neighbouring countries. He is member of editorial boards of 7 international journals.

He has several important scientific findings to his credit including Asian definitions of obesity, abdominal obesity and syndrome x. He has lead countrywide consensus of guidelines for obesity, the metabolic syndrome, physical activity and diets. He has research collaborations with scientists from usa, uk, australia, netherlands, canada, malaysia, and sweden.

Project marg, the largest project on nutrition and health of schoolchildren in Asia, has been conceptualized and carried out by his team and has been internationally lauded.

He is a member of advisory boards in number of organizations in India, other developing countries and several western countries dealing with diabetes, obesity and metabolic disorders.

Prof. Misra has more than 25 years of experience in treating all types of diabetes, and its complications, hypertension, cholesterol disorders, obesity, metabolic syndrome, polycystic ovarian syndrome, fatty liver, thyroid disorders, osteoporosis, and other metabolic diseases. His centre has special treatment facilities for insulin pump, diabetes in pregnancy, diabetic foot ulcers, bone mineral deficiency, male sexual dysfunction due to diabetes, and measurements for heart attack and stroke risks.

Dr. Moghissi is an associate clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles and the vice-president of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.

As a native of Shiraz, Iran, she earned her medical degree from Shiraz University, School of Medicine in Shiraz, where she completed her internship and 2 years of residency in internal medicine. She also completed an internal medicine residency at St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Hospital at Columbia University in New York City and a fellowship in endocrinology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She is Board Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Endocrinology.

Her areas of interest include, direct patient care and teaching in the field of diabetes. She currently serves as the Chair of AACE- Inpatient Diabetes task force and is the lead author of 2009 AACE/ADA inpatient consensus statement published in Diabetes Care and Endocrine Practice. She was the Co- Chair of the AACE Inpatient Diabetes Consensus Conference and Position Statement (2004) and AACE/ADA Inpatient Diabetes “Call to Action” Consensus Conference and Position Statement (2006). In 2007 she led the effort to create the AACE- Inpatient Glycemic Control Resource Center on AACE’s website. Her efforts have been instrumental in driving a major shift in the care of hospitalized patients with diabetes.

Faramarz Ismail-Beigi, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine and Physiology and Biophysics

Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland , Ohio

fxi2@case.edu

Dr. Ismail-Beigi is a professor of Medicine, Endocrinology, and Physiology and Biophysics at Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals of Cleveland, and the Cleveland VA from 1993 to 2008. He completed his BA at Berea College in KY in 1962 and his MD degree at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1966. Following internship and residency on the Osler Medical Service at Johns Hopkins, he spend three years as a fellow and graduate student at University of California at San Francisco and Berkeley where he received a PhD in Biophysics in 1972. After a year of senior residency at Johns Hopkins, he returned to his native Iran where he served as chairman of the Department of Medicine at Pahlavi University (now Shiraz University) till 1982. Following the revolution in Iran in 1979, Dr. Ismail-Beigi immigrated to the US in 1984 and was Professor of Medicine at Columbia University. In 1993 he was recruited to Case Western Reserve University. He served as chief of Endocrinology at Case from 1993 to 2007. While continuing as full-time Professor at Case, he serves as the Medical Director of Joslin Diabetes Clinic.at St. Vincent Charity Hospital in Cleveland (2008-present). His interests are in teaching, clinical diabetes research, and basic research in thyroid hormone action, glucose transport biology, and insulin action. He is the Principle Investigator of the ACCORD trial for the Ohio/Michigan Network. Dr. Ismail-Beigi is also the diabetologist PI of another NIH-funded diabetes trial that was conducted at University Hospitals of Cleveland (the BARI2D Trial) which is complementary to the ACCORD trial. He has authored more than 100 basic and clinical scientific papers.

A. Positions and Honors

Academic Appointments

Associate in Cardiology, Northwestern University School of Medicine 1984-1985

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Northwestern University School of Medicine 1985-1990

Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University (Joint Appointment) 1989-1990

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Medical School 1990-2000

Associate Professor of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University (Joint Appointment) 1990-2000

Professor of Pediatrics, Jefferson Medical College 2001-Present

Professional Activity and Honors

NIH- Epidemiology and Disease Control Study Section Ad Hoc Review Committee Member, July 1990; NHLBI-Committee on use of repository specimens, ethical issues related to use of stored blood specimens, 1996; Consultant to the Bogalusa Heart Study, November 1993; Participant, Maternal and Child Health Bureau Conference on the Assessment and Treatment of Obesity in Children, March 1997; Reviewer, NIH initiative on cholesterol and blood pressure therapy in children, 1998; Ad Hoc Reviewer, NIH Clinical Trials Study Section, June 1999; Conference Chairman, 3^rd International Conference on Atherosclerosis in Youth, March 2000; Guest Editor CVD Prevention, June 2000; Reviewer, NHLBI, Pediatric Heart Disease Clinical Research Network initiative, April 2001 and March 2006; Participant, NHLBI, Executive Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Youth, March 7, 2006; Member, NHLBI Panel on Cardiovascular Risk Prevention in Youth, 2006 –present; Reviewer, Micah Batchelor Award for Excellence in Children’s Health Research, July 25, 2006; Guest Editor, Pediatric Annals, November 2006. Visiting Professorships: University of Michigan 1991, Texas Children’s Hospital 1995, University of Pittsburg, 2003, Brown University Dept. of Pediatrics 2004, Cleveland Clinic 2005, University of Miami 2006, Texas A and M Medical School, 2006, University of West Virginia, 2007, University of Michigan, 2008; ACCF/Pfizer, CS Mott Children’s Hospital, February 2008, Dept. of Pediatrics, University of Miami, December 2008, Dept. of Family Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, December 2008, Dept. of Nutritional Sciences, Penn State University, March 2009; Advocate of the Year Award, American Heart Association, Chicago Affiliate 1998; Baffes Lecturer, Children’s Memorial Hospital, February 2000.

11/01/89 NIH NO1-HC-48049 Longitudinal Studies of Coronary

11/30/97 Heart Disease Risk Factors in Young Adults (CARDIA)

Co-investigator for echocardiography 7.5% effort/yr

Kiang Liu, Ph.D., Principal Investigator

1987-1992 NIH HL3-7947-03 Dietary Intervention Study in

Childhood (DISC) Co-investigator 5% effort/year

Linda Van Horn, R.D., Ph.D., Principal Investigator

1992-1998 NIH HL3-7947-03 Dietary Intervention Study in

Childhood (DISC) Co-investigator 1% effort/year

Linda Van Horn, R.D., Ph.D., Principal Investigator

Current Grant Support

Echocardiography Reading Center for the CARDIA Study (NHLBI)

Echocardiography Reading Center for the TODAY study (NIDDK)

Hypertension in African American Adolescents (NHLBI)

Fish Oil for Hypertriglyceridemia in Adolescents (GlaxoSmith Kline)

Jeremy Jowett

Title	University	Date Awarded
D.Phil (Ph.D) Molecular Biology	University of Oxford , UK	1992
B.Sc (Hons) Genetics & Microbiology	University of Melbourne , Australia	1984
Grad Dip Internet Software Development	Swinburne University of Technology, Australia	2002

Awards and patents

American Cancer Society Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship Award; 1994-1996

Research interests

You need only to look around you at any gathering to note how diverse the biological differences are that exist between individuals. Some of these are easy to notice such as height and complexion while others require more investigation to ascertain such as sporting ability and intelligence. Differences also exist that affect an individual's risk of disease development, the types of diseases they might get and when treated, how they might to respond to the prescribed interventions including dietary, lifestyle and pharmaceutical regimens.

The genomics and systems biology research team seeks to understand the molecular basis for these differences that represent the net effects of genetic predisposition and influence of the environment. By analysing these differences using novel innovative techniques and state of the art technology we aim to identify new molecular pathways that modulate disease risk and progression. Understanding the complexities of these networks and pathways will aid in the development of more accurate predictive and diagnostic tests, facilitate the development of new classes of therapeutic drugs and lay the foundations for personalised medicine based on molecular profiling.

Research projects

• Gene discovery in type 2 diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome
• Human molecular profiling in health and disease
• Biomarker discovery for disease risk and progression

Nor Azmi Kamaruddin

Nor Azmi Kamaruddin is a Professor of Medicine and Senior Consultant Endocrinologist at the Department of Medicine, National University of Malaysia (UKM) and Head of The Diabetes and Endocrine Unit, UKM Medical Centre , Kuala Lumpur. He graduated from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia in 1986 and obtained his Master of Medicine (Internal Medicine) in 1994. He did his postgraduate endocrine training in Hospital Kuala Lumpur and the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK. In 2009 he was made Fellow of the American College of Endocrinology .

To date, he has contributed to more than 55 international and national research papers including publications in New England Journal of Medicine, Clinical Endocrinology, Thyroid, Diabetes Care, JAMA, American Heart Journal, International Journal of Clinical Nutrition and World Journal of Surgery.

Nor Azmi has participated in several international collaborative researches among others with the National Institute of Health (NIH), USA in the field of genetics of Type I Diabetes and diabetic pharmacological surveillance with the University of Nottingham, UK. He has been principal investigator for more than 70 and co-investigator for 24 Clinical Drug Trials . His research interests include pharmacological treatment of obesity, thyroid autoimmunity and adrenal hypertension.

He has supervised 7 PhD candidates and 2 Master of Science candidates. In addition he has also supervised more than 40 clinical researches for Master of Medicine candidates. In total he has been involved in more than 150 researches over the years.

He was previously Head, Department of Medicine, UKM from 2004-2007. He is currently the President of the Malaysian Endocrine and Metabolic Society (MEMS) and Chairman of the Asia-Oceania Congress of Endocrinology (AOCE) from 2006-2010.

Fatimah Arshad

Head of Nutrition and Dietetic Department, IMU

Education: Bsc. Dietetics, Masters Nutrition (LSU, USA), PhD (UBC, Canada). PGD Dietetics, Masters Equivalent Kings College London

Specialty Area: Nutrition, Dietetics and Health

Research Interests: Older Adults, Obesity, Cancer

Special Areas of Interests :

Prevention and intervention of obesity and cancer

Areas of Practical Expertise:

Maternal and Child Health

Patents or trademarks:

Six educational intervention packages

Professional Experience

(a) First President of the Malaysian Dietitians’ Association (MDA)

(b) First President of the Parenteral and Enteral Society of Malaysia (PENSMA)

(c) Pioneer member of the Malaysian Association of the study in Obesity (MASO)

(d) Pioneer member of the Nutrition Society of Malaysia (NSM)

Able to Provide Consultancy in:

(a) Nutrition, Dietetics and Health

(b) Diabetes, Obesity or eating disorders

(c) Maternal and child Nutrition

Research Projects:

1 . Obesity intervention programme and the psychosocial factors involved in maintaining weight changes in urban areas.IRPA 1994 to 2002 RM 249,000. Head of Research team.

2. A retrospective study on the relationship of dietary components in the Malaysian diets to cancers.2001 – 2002, MAKNA Grant RM 50, 000.

Some Publications of Interest:

1.Barakatun N., Ruzita,AT.,Norimah A. Karim, Norazmi Kamarudin.and Fatimah Arshad.The Effects of Low Glycaemic Index Bread Eaten with Different Fillings on Glucose Response in Healthy Individiuals. Jurnal Sains Kesihatan Malaysia 6(1) 2008: 1-10.

2 Suzana S., Kim T.T., Nor Fadilah R., and Fatimah Arshad Association between Oxidative DNA Damage, Fruits and Vegetable Intake with Breast Cancer: A preliminary study in Klandg Valley. Jurnal Sains Kesihatan Malaysia6 (1) 2008: 61-77

3. Loh W.K., Dalia A and Fatimah Arshad Amalan Pemakanan, Penjagaan Kesihatan Mulut dan Kejadian Karies Gigi di Kalangan Pelajar Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Jurnal Sains Kesihatan Malaysia 6 (1) 2008: 79

4. A. Fatimah , M. Maznorila, MN. Idris, and A. Rahman: Prevalence of disylipidemia in non- insulin dependent patients attending armed forces clinics in Kuala Lumpur. Asia Pacific J. of Clin. Nutr. 6(3) 1997

Dato’ Dr Mafauzy Mohamed

Prof. Dato’ Dr Mafauzy Mohamed is currently the Director of Campus, Professor of Medicine and Senior Consultant Endocrinologist at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Health Campus in Kelantan. He obtained his M.B.B.S. from the University of Adelaide, Australia in 1980. He was appointed as a Lecturer after he received his M.R.C.P (UK) in 1985. He also obtained a Masters of Medical Sciences from University of Sheffield in 1987. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1992. In 1996, he was admitted as Fellow of Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) and in 2000 he was promoted as full Professor of Medicine.

He is actively involved in the field of endocrinology and diabetes. He also serves as an examiner for the Royal College of Physicians, United Kingdom and has been appointed by several universities as External Examiner for Professional Examinations at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and also as Masters and PhD theses examiner.

Apart from clinical practice, teaching and administrative duties, Dr Mafauzy is also actively involved in research and has to date obtained over 80 research grants mainly in the field of thyroid disorders and diabetes including many clinical trials relating to diabetes and metabolism. He has supervised over 25 postgraduate students and has published over 90 papers in national and international Journals, presented over 80 papers in national and international meetings and has been invited to give over 280 lectures in national and international meetings .

Armen Yuri GASPARYAN , M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine

Date and place of birth: 18 January 1972, Yerevan, Armenia

Nationality: Republic of Armenia

Address: 7 Akopian St. , 50 apt., 0033 Yerevan, Armenia,

Phone: +374 95 026934

E-mail : a.gasparyan@gmail.com