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Scientific Director

Labros S. Sidossis

Labros S. Sidossis

PhD, FTOS, FAHA, FNAK, FBSLM
Distinguished Professor of Lifestyle Science
Professor, Department of Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA

President, Mediterranean Lifestyle Medicine Institute
Vice President, World Lifestyle Medicine Organization
Biography

· Martin O. Savage ·

Martin Savage is Emeritus Professor of Paediatric Endocrinology at William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London School of Medicine & Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London. He was head of the Paediatric Endocrine Unit at Barts and the London School of Medicine from 1982 to 2007. He has interests in growth disorders, specifically those with abnormalities in the GH-IGF-1 axis and in phenotype-genotype relationships of GH-IGF-1 axis defects, notably GH resistance. He published the first human case of an IGF-1 gene defect in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1996.  His other interests are Cushing’s syndrome and growth in chronic inflammatory diseases. He was General Secretary of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE) from 1997 to 2004. He has lectured in 60 countries and has published 482 original articles, reviews, textbook chapters and books. In 2007, he was awarded the ESPE Andrea Prader Prize for contributions to paediatric endocrinology and in 2018 he received a Visionary Award from the American Human Growth Foundation. In 2022, he received a Research Excellence Award from the Dr Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Journal in Riyadh, and the British Society of Paediatric Endocrinology & Diabetes James M. Tanner Lifetime Achievement Award. He continues to lecture nationally and internationally.

· Labros S. Sidossis ·

Labros S. Sidossis, PhD, is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Health at Rutgers University and is affiliated with the Department of Medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He is Vice President of the World Lifestyle Medicine Organisation (WLMO) and President of the Mediterranean Lifestyle Medicine Institute (MLMI), reflecting his international leadership and longstanding engagement with the Lifestyle Medicine movement. His academic and research work focuses on lifestyle medicine, nutrition, metabolism, obesity and the prevention of metabolic diseases, with particular emphasis on the effects of diet, physical activity and other lifestyle factors on health and longevity.
Professor Sidossis has a PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry and has developed an extensive research programme investigating lifestyle interventions for the prevention and treatment of metabolic disease, adipose tissue metabolism, obesity and metabolic regulation. His research also addresses the role of nutrition, sleep, physical activity, stress and social factors in long-term health, consistent with the multidisciplinary foundations of Lifestyle Medicine.
His broader scientific interests include lifestyle determinants of obesity and metabolic diseases, body-weight regulation, adipocyte metabolism, brown adipose tissue, and the metabolic effects of physical activity and nutrition. He has authored 13 books and book chapters and published more than 230 peer-reviewed scientific articles, cited over 27,000 times (h-index 75, i10-index 192).

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