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Clinical Nutrition

Official Journal of ESPEN, The European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism

Clinical Nutrition
ISSN: 0261-5614
Imprint: ELSEVIER

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Impact Factor: 3.203
Issues per year: 6

Editors Biography



N. Deutz, Center for Translational Research on Aging and Longevity, Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas 72205, USA. Nicolaas E.P. Deutz, MD, PhD, is Professor at the Center for Translational Research on Aging and Longevity, UAMS, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA. His research interests are nutrition and metabolism, with a specific focus on (inter)organ protein and amino acid metabolism, using animals (mice, rats, pigs), healthy humans and patients with various disease states ((pre)diabetes, cancer, COPD, sepsis, liver and gut failure).

J. Mays, Center for Translational Research on Aging and Longevity, Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas 72205, USA. Mrs Mays is a Group Manager for the Center for Translational Research in Aging and Longevity at UAMS working with Professor Deutz and is a Certified Grants Manager and registered and active Notary Public. Mrs Mays has many years experience of database management and grant and/or account reporting and will be responsible for overseeing and managing the day to day activities of both journals.

A. Davies, Melbourne, Australia Dr Andrew Davies, MD, FRACP, is a clinical intensivist from the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia where he is the Deputy Director of Intensive Care and Head of Trauma ICU. He is also a member of the Research Ethics Committee and has clinical research interests in the areas of critical care nutrition, septic shock, acute lung injury and traumatic brain injury. He has been President of the Australasian Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (AuSPEN) from 2001 until 2007. Under his leadership, a number of important collaborations have been formed, especially with ESPEN. He has performed critical care nutrition research in the areas of small bowel feeding, evidence-based nutrition guidelines, early use of parenteral nutrition, nutrition support of acute pancreatitis and has now collaborated on several large international critical care nutrition surveys with colleagues in Canada.

R. Griffiths, Liverpool, UK Richard D Griffiths, BSc, MD, FRCP, is Professor of Medicine (Intensive Care), Division of Metabolic and Cellular Medicine, School of Clinical Science, University of Liverpool, UK. He is also Honorary Consultant Physicians in Intensive Care Medicine at Whiston Hospital, Prescot, UK. His research interests in the critically ill include mechanisms preventing muscle damage, nutrition in the critically ill (glutamine) and for more than 18 years the care and the rehabilitation of the post-ICU patient. He is Chair of the UK Intensive Care Society Research Committee.

B. Koletzko, München, Germany Berthold V. Koletzko, MD, PhD, is Professor of Paediatrics and Head of the Division Metabolic Diseases and Nutritional Medicine at the Hauner Children's Hospital, University of Munich, Germany. His research focuses on metabolism and nutrition in childhood, pregnancy & lactation, metabolic diseases, and clinical nutrition. He has co-authored more than 500 publications and received numerous awards and honours, coordinates EU Research Programmes (External link www.metabolic-programming.org), served as member of the ESPEN Scientific Committee and coordinated the ESPGHAN-ESPEN guidelines on paediatric parenteral nutrition, and currently serves as the president of the German Society for Clinical Nutrition (External link www.dgem.de).

A. Laviano, Rome, Italy Alessandro LAVIANO, MD is an Associate Professor of Internal, Medicine Department of Clinical Medicine, Sapienza at the University of Rome. His scientific interests are regulation of eating behaviour in health and disease, disease-associated anorexia-cachexia, metabolic derangements during disease, in particular cancer and hyperphagia and obesity. He is also a teacher of Clinical Nutrition and Internal Medicine. He has received numerous Travel Awards and Research Grants for his work in the fields of interest.

H. Lochs, Berlin, Germany Herbert Lochs. M.D. is professor of Medicine and Head of the Department for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology at the Charit? University Hospital in Berlin. He has published more than 200 research papers and served in different offices in the European Society of Clinical Nutrition, the German Society for Nutritional Medicine, the Austrian Society for Clinical Nutrition and the American Gastroenterological Association. His research interest focuses on metabolism and intestinal function, inflammatory bowel disease, amino acid metabolism and functional consequences of nutritional support.

B. Morio, France Béatrice Morio, PhD, is a research scientist in the Human Nutrition Unit of the Food and Human Nutrition Research Department of INRA (National Research Institute of Agronomy), Clermont-Ferrand, France. She is a member of the scientific committee of her Department of INRA and has been serving as a reviewer for several scientific journals. Her research focuses on human metabolism and nutrition during aging and associated metabolic disorders. She has gained expertise in the field of energy metabolism, with recently a particular emphasis on the regulation of mitochondrial OXPHOS functions. She mentors junior faculty, PhD students and post-doctoral fellows.

H. Ohyanagi, Osaka, Japan Dr. Harumasa Ohyanagi is a Associate Professor of Surgery at Kobe University School of Medicine in Osaka, Japan where he is Professor and Chairman of Surgery & Vice Board Director of University of KinDAI Himeji. He is Vice President of the International Association for Surgical Metabolism and Nutrition, ESPEN Council member & Vice President of the Chinese International Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. He was Director of Kinki University Hospital in Japan (2001-2004) and Dean of Kinki University School of Medicine (2004-2008). Please join us in welcoming Dr. Ohyanagi as an Associate Editor

C. Pichard, Genève, Switzerland Claude Pichard, MD, PhD, is Professor of Nutrition and head of Clinical Nutrition at the Geneva University Hospital. He has published over 160 peer-review papers and given more than 300 lectures around the world. His recent research interest is related to the modulation of cancer cell growth as an integrated part of the total care management and to the impact of anabolic manipulations during acute and chronic diseases. He is members of 24 medical associations and the current Chairman of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition (ESPEN) (External link www.espen.org).

O. Rooyackers, Stockholm, Sweden Olav E. Rooyackers, Ph.D., is a Associate Professor at the Dept Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Clintec, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden. He received his PhD at the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands. He currently is the Coordinator of the Special Interest Group in Stable Isotopes within ESPEN (External link www.espen.org), and also member of the Scientific Committee of ESPEN and adjunct member of the Steering Committe of SWESPEN, Swedish for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism. He has been very active in the ESPEN society in the past & received numerous awards from 1991 through 2007.

E. Volpi, Galveston, USA Elena Volpi, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and Sealy Center on Aging, and Daisy Emery Allen Distinguished Chair in Geriatrics at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA. She is the director of the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory of the Sealy Center on Aging, funded through grants from the National Institutes of Health, and has been serving as a reviewer for NIH study sections and several scientific journals. Her research interests span across the fields of human metabolism and nutrition, with a specific focus on muscle protein turnover in aging and diabetes. She mentors junior faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and medical and PhD students.

B. Winklhofer-Roob, Graz, Austria Brigitte M. Winklhofer-Roob, M.D., is a pediatrician and Professor of Human Nutrition and Clinical Nutrition at the Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Austria. Her research interests are human nutrition and metabolism with a major focus on antioxidants and oxidative and glycoxidative stress in healthy ageing and patients with chronic degenerative and inflammatory disorders (chronic renal failure, juvenile obesity). She is head of the Human Nutrition & Metabolism Research and Training Center (HNMRC) at the University of Graz (External link http://hnmrc.uni-graz.at), the mission of which is translational research and training of diploma/PhD/MD students and continuing education in human nutrition and clinical nutrition.
 
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