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 (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 (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)
(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 (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 (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.