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Boden Collaboration for Obesity, Nutrition, Exercise and Eating Disorders
Research, prevention, clinical care, education and policy change
We aspire to reduce the individual and societal impact of obesity, eating disorders and lifestyle-related chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, cancer, mental illness and osteoarthritis.
About us
The Boden Collaboration (formerly known as the Boden Institute) is a joint initiative of the Faculty of Medicine and Health, the Faculty of Science and is administered through the Central Clinical School within the Sydney Medical School.
We aim to take a leading role in the battle to control the global obesity epidemic and lifestyle-related chronic diseases by providing a focus for advancing basic and clinical research, public health and policy development.
The collaboration is a result of the foresight, contribution and generosity of Dr Alexander Boden, AO – a graduate of the University of Sydney, scientist and philanthropist.
Our research
The Boden Collaboration is directed by Professor Ian Caterson, who heads up a team of internationally renowned experts. We take a broad approach to combating and preventing obesity and lifestyle-related chronic disease.
Our researchers have expertise across the whole human lifecycle from pre-gestation to old age, and collectively have the broadest approach and expertise for combating and preventing eating disorders, obesity and lifestyle-related chronic disease assembled in Australia – from specialised clinics to public health systems.
Our unique contributions to research and translation to health systems and practice include:
- specialist consultative input into obesity and diabetes prevention, as well as management research and practice
- development and delivery of unique e-therapies for eating disorders, and directing worldwide, large-scale innovative studies in diabetes prevention
- improving the evidence base for choice of different obesity treatment options as a result of determining the long-term effects of fast versus slow weight loss on body composition and eating behaviours in different populations (for example, in older adults or people with binge eating disorders)
- analysing the cost-effectiveness of primary care referral to a commercial provider for weight loss treatment, relative to standard care, thus enabling decisions about optimal ways to treat obesity in the community
- pioneering novel methodologies, such as the use of comprehensive phenotyping techniques in lifespan cardiovascular health studies in healthy and unwell infants and children
- translation of evidence-based packages for eating disorders into online therapy programs made widely available to those not receiving services
- assessing the value of oxytocin in the treatment of clinical eating disorders.
Our people
Obesity and Clinical Trials
- Professor Ian Caterson, Foundation Director and Obesity Program Leader, The Boden Collaboration; Boden Professor of Human Nutrition, School of Life and Environmental Sciences; Academic Clinical Director, Charles Perkins Centre Royal Prince Alfred Clinic; Deputy Clinical Stream Director Aged Care & Rehabilitation/Ambulatory and Chronic Care, Endocrinology, Andrology, General Medicine and General Practice, Sydney Local Health District
- Dr Nick Fuller, Industry Program Leader
- Associate Professor Tania Markovic, Clinical Associate Professor, Boden Collaboration; Director, Metabolism and Obesity Services (SLHD)
- Dr Kyra Sim, Manager, Childhood Obesity Prevention and Management, Dietitian (SLHD)
- Dr Arianne Sweeting, NHMRC Early Career Fellow
Diabetes
- Professor Stephen Colagiuri, Professor of Metabolic Health and Program Leader Diabetes, The Boden Collaboration;
Director, Solutions Domain, Charles Perkins Centre; Co-Director, WHO Collaborating Centre on Physical Activity, Nutrition & Obesity - Associate Professor Samantha Hocking, Diabetes NSW and ACT
Public Health Nutrition
- Professor Timothy Gill, Professor of Public Health Nutrition, Research Programs Director and Public Health Nutrition Program Leader
Eating and Dieting Disorders
- Dr Sarah Maguire, Director of Eating and Dieting Disorders; Senior Lecturer; NSW Health Statewide Co-ordinator of Eating Disorders
- Professor Janice Russell, Professor of Psychiatry (Affiliate)
- Professor Stephen Touyz, Professor of Clinical Psychology
Translational Research
- Professor Michael Skilton, Professor of Nutrition and Cardiometabolic Health; Maurice Blackmore Principal Research Fellow in Integrative Medicine; Translational Research Program Leader
- Dr Xingzhong (Jason) Jin, NHMRC Early Career Fellow
- Dr Jovana Mijatovic, Research Associate and Project Manager S03 Trial
- Dr Radhika Seimon, Research Fellow
Health Economics
- Dr Michelle Cunich, Senior Research Fellow, Health Economics Program Leader
- Dr Ang Li, Health Economist
Clinical Nutrition
- Professor Jennie Brand-Miller, (Faculty of Science) Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism Program Leader
Exercise
- Professor Maria Fiatarone Singh, (School of Health Sciences) Exercise Program Leader
- Kristine Maddock, Executive Assistant
- Tegan Picone, Clinical Trials Research Assistant
- Melanie Symons, Administration Manager
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