Ian Caterson

Ian Caterson is Boden Professor of Human Nutrition and Foundation Director of the Boden Institute of Obesity Nutrition Exercise & Eating Disorders, University of Sydney. Previously, he was Senior Staff Specialist and Director of Clinical Endocrinology at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He was a post doctoral researcher at the University of Oxford with Professor Sir Philip Randle FRS.

His research interests have been in insulin resistance and the causes, prevention and treatment of obesity and the prevention of chronic disease. He is a past president of the Australian Diabetes Society and the Australasian Society for the Study of Obesity. He was previously Head of the School of Molecular & Microbial Biosciences at the University of Sydney. He has been a regional advisor on obesity for the World Health Organisation (WHO) and to Australian governments. He is Past President (Asia-Oceania) for the International Association for the Study of Obesity (now World Obesity). He is President-elect of World Obesity.

Professor Caterson joined the Board of CMRI in 2004 and is a member of the Institute’s Intellectual Property Committee.