Speaker
Dr Jim Mann, CNZM, PhD, DM, FRACP, FRSNZ
Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Centre for Human Nutrition, Newzealand
Biography :
Jim Mann, CNZM, PhD, DM, FRACP, FRSNZ has been Professor in Medicine and Human Nutrition at the University of Otago and Consultant Physician (Endocrinology) in Dunedin Hospital for the past 32 years. Previously he lectured at the University of Oxford and was a Physician in the Radcliffe Infirmary. He is Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Human Nutrition, the ‘Healthier Lives’ National Science Challenge and the New Zealand-China Non Communicable Diseases Research Collaboration Centre and; co-Director of the Edgar Diabetes and Obesity Research Centre (EDOR). He is principal investigator for the Riddet Institute, a national Centre of Research Excellence at Massey University
