Metabolic Syndrome

Teaching

Endocrinology, Nutrition & Metabolism Seminar Programme

Spring term 2012
Venue: Lecture Theatre/Seminar room, Level A, Institute Developmental Sciences Building, at 1.00.

Date   Speaker Presentation Title
10 January 2012    

Peter Collins RD
Research Dietitian
Respiratory Biomedical Research Unit
Southampton Centre for Biomedical Research
Southampton General Hospital/
University of Southampton
 ’The Obesity Paradox in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: survival of the fattest’  
17 January 2012   Mr Colin Johnson
Reader in Surgery and Honorary Consultant Surgeon 
Southampton General Hospital
Topic: pancreatic surgery  
24 January 2012   Dr Venkat-Raman Gopalakrishnan
Consultant Nephrologist
Queen Alexandra hospital
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust
& Hon Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton.
Outcomes after renal transplantation in people with and without diabetes.
31 January 2012   Professor A Postle
Professor in Developmental Biochemistry
Division of Infection, Inflammation & Immunity
Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton
Lipidomics approaches to studying nutrition and metabolism
7 February 2012 Colin Greaves PhD  C Psychol
Senior Research Fellow
Peninsula Medical School (Primary Care)
St Luke's Campus, University of Exeter
Topic: diabetes prevention through lifestyle modification
14 February 2012 No seminar – Half Term -----------------------
21 February 2012 Dr Graham C Burdge
Reader in Human Nutrition
(Editor-in-Chief Nutrition Research Reviews)
Human Development and Health Academic Unit
Institute of Developmental Sciences
Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton
Provisional topic: Nutrition and epigenetic modification
28 February 2012 Nathalie Delzenne
Full Professor Université catholique de Louvain
Metabolism and Nutrition Research Group
UCL/LDRI/MNut
Van Helmont, Brussels, Belgium 
Topic: diet, gut microbiota, inflammation & obesity
6 March 2012 No seminar  ----------------------
13 March 2012 Professor Nigel Arden
Fellow and Professor of Rheumatology
Director of Musculoskeletal Epidemiology;
Director of Oxford Musculoskeletal BioBank; Deputy Director
Oxford NIHR Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit

Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology & Musculoskeletal SciencesLady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
 Topic: Osteoporosis
 20 March 2012 Dr Katharine Barnard CPsychol
Senior Research Fellow/Health Psychologist Human Development and Health Academic Unit
Faculty of Medicine
University of Southampton
Psychosocial aspects of diabetes and improving outcomes with a patient centred approach
 27 March 2012 Dr David McAllister
Specialty Registrar in Public Health, NHS Fife
Cameron House, Leven, Fife
Topic: 'Diabetes and respiratory disease'.