Rate My Professor Ian Caterson

Caterson's research focuses on insulin resistance, including its biochemical causes, mechanisms, and effects; obesity epidemiology, causes, management, and prevention; epigenetics of obesity; and the role of gut microbiota. He has authored over 200 scientific publications on these topics. Key works include co-editorship of Clinical Obesity in Adults and Children (third edition, 2010), 'Time for a new obesity narrative' in The Lancet (2018), and contributions to Prevention Conference VII: Writing Group II in Circulation (2004). His impact on the field is demonstrated through extensive leadership: Past President of the World Obesity Federation (2014-2016), President of the Australian and New Zealand Obesity Society, President of the Australian Diabetes Society, and Regional Vice-President of the Asia Oceania Association for the Study of Obesity. He chairs the Expert Obesity Committee for the Australian National Preventive Health Agency and serves on the National Health and Medical Research Council's Prevention and Community Health Committee. In 2014, Caterson was appointed Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to medicine, particularly in endocrinology and obesity.