Professor John Dixon

Biography

John came to obesity research in 1998 from a background as a rural primary care physician. His generalist approach has enabled clinical research across specialist boundaries. He is a respected international leader in many clinical aspects of obesity including nutritional, endocrine, liver, respiratory, obstetric, and psychological. In addition his research has focussed on the effects of weight loss on health outcomes. Studies have utilised many different weight loss methods from lifestyle interventions to medical diets, very-low calorie diets, devices and bariatric surgery. His research has included four world first clinical randomised controlled trials of bariatric surgery in mild obesity, diabetes, severely obese adolescents and obstructive sleep apnoea. He is a co-author of the consensus clinical practice guidelines for the perioperative nutritional, metabolic, and nonsurgical support of the bariatric surgery patient developed by American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, The Obesity Society, and American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. He is a member of the scientific advisory board of Obesity Australia, was President of the Australian and New Zealand Obesity Society (2007–09), is Associate Editor of Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases and Obesity Surgery, and editorial board member of Nutrition and Diabetes, Clinical Obesity and Diabesity in Practice.

Research Interest

Human Neurotransmitters