Michael Skilton

Biography

Associate Professor Skilton is a group leader at the Boden Institute of Obesity, Nutrition, Exercise and Eating Disorders, and leads the Nutrition and Cardiovascular Health Project Node at the Charles Perkins Centre. He is a vascular physiologist by training, and is currently the recipient of a National Heart Foundation of Australia Future Leader Fellowship. He graduated from the University of Queensland (BSc Hons I) in 1998, and was awarded a PhD from the University of Sydney in 2005 for his doctoral studies on “Nutrition and cardiovascular structure and function”. He has held postdoctoral positions in Lyon, France (2005-2007) and at the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne (2007-2010).

Research Interest

Research focuses at the nexus between nutrition and cardiovascular health using a lifespan approach. This includes - developing and refining techniques for assessing early vascular disease; - identification of people at risk of cardiovascular disease in adulthood based on their early life exposures (Developmental Origins of Health and Disease; DOHaD); - developing and trialing nutrition strategies to improve the cardiovascular risk profile, and subsequently prevent cardiovascular events, in people using a precision medicine approach; - vascular health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples; - obesity, weight loss and vascular health.