speakers

Speakers

John Boyle John graduated in 1975 from Brunel University, Uxbridge, U.K., with a B.Sc. (Hons.) in psychology. He is a member of the British Psychological Society, the Australian Psychological Society, and is registered with the Victorian Psychological Council. John's clinical work encompasses the addictive behaviours such as alcohol abuse, nicotine dependency, cannabis use, gambling, overeating, relationship counselling, stress management, change management, oncological and cardiac counselling and posttraumatic stress disorder, and working with Victims of Crime. John is involved with a number of organisations in Australia and New Zealand, Merck Sharp and Dohme, Esso, BP, and multiple Divisions of General Practice, Cancer Council of Victoria and the Leukaemia Foundation, Post Traumatic Association of Mental Health, Dietetics Association, the Victorian Cancer Clinicians Communications Skills Program, etc. Involvement is through his capacity as a trainer, counsellor and presenter. He is a cognitive behavioural therapist with a therapeutic philosophy of Person Centred Treatment. Much of his time is spent in presenting in conferences, workshops and seminars. Garry Egger MPH PhD MAPS Southern Cross University, Australia Dr Garry Egger MPH, PhD has worked in public, corporate and clinical health for nearly 4 decades. He is the author of 30 books (including five texts) over 150 peer-reviewed scientific and research articles and numerous popular media articles on health and fitness. He is a Consultant Professor of Health Sciences at Southern Cross University and an Advisor to the World Health Organisation and several Government and corporate bodies in chronic disease prevention. In the 1990s Dr Egger initiated the GutBusters, men’s waist loss program, the first of its kind in the world, which has now developed into the Professor Trim’s Weight Loss Program for men. He is one of the initiators of the Australian Lifestyle Medicine Association (ALMA) and runs training programs in Lifestyle Medicine for doctors and allied health professionals. His recent interests and publications concern the link between obesity, climate change and economic growth.

Dr David Barling Dr David Barling is a Reader in Food Policy at City University London. His research is on the governance of the food supply and food chains with a recent focus on policy initiatives linking sustainable food consumption and production. He is co-author of Food Policy: integrating, health, environment and society (Oxford University Press 2009) and co-editor of Ethical Traceability and Communicating Food (Springer 2008) as well as over fifty articles, chapters and reports. He is currently co-authoring a book on Britain and Food Security. He sat on the expert advisory panel for the UK Prime Minister's Strategy Unit project on Food and Food Policy 2007-8. He is a member of: the British Standards Institute Committee AW/90 Quality Systems for the Food Industry; a trustee of Sustain the UK alliance of food related NGOs; and sits on the board of the international journal Agriculture and Human Values.

Dr Clare Wall Dr Clare Wall is a Senior Lecturer in Human Nutrition at The University of Auckland, Medical School. After qualifying as a dietitian in the UK in 1984 she specialised in paediatric dietetics, working in both the UK and Australia. She has had many years of practical experience assisting parents, children and adolescents with nutrition advice and support. She has an extensive experience in teaching and research in Human Nutrition. She is an active member of the nutrition community in New Zealand and serves on a number of national review panels and committees in the infant and childhood nutrition area. She is a collaborator on a number of research projects with her main research focus being the interrelationship between the determinants of nutritional status and health outcomes in the paediatric population.