Professor Kerin O'Dea AO, BSc, PhD

In 2006 Professor Kerin O'Dea AO was appointed as a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne (Department of Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital) and the Baker Heart Research Institute. Prior to this (2000-2005) she was Director of the Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin, NT. Her major research interests include lifestyle change and health in Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders with particular emphasis on obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular and renal disease; diet in the pathogenesis, prevention and treatment of obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease in different population groups; and public health nutrition.

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