Editorial introductions

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care was launched in 1998. It is one of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The fields of clinical nutrition and metabolic care are divided into 13 sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Section Editors for this issue. Section Editors Vickie E. BaracosFigure 1Dr Baracos completed her PhD in Applied Biochemistry and Nutrition at the University of Nottingham, England, and a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School, USA. Dr Baracos' subsequent career at the University of Alberta, Canada, spans two decades, and has been devoted to studies of the balance of anabolic and catabolic factors in different physiological and pathological states. Most recently, the main focus of Dr Baracos' interest in hypercatabolic states has been malignant disease. Dr Baracos is currently the Alberta Cancer Foundation Chair in Palliative Medicine, and Professor in the Department of Oncology. She is leader of a national research program on cancer-associated cachexia in Canada, and represents nutrition research in the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials group. Jean-Paul ThissenFigure 2Dr Jean-Paul Thissen, MD, PhD, is Professor of Medicine in the division of Endocrinology and Nutrition at the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels, Belgium. He obtained his MD degree in 1983, and completed his residency in the same university. During his postdoctoral training, he spent three years working in the laboratory of Louis E. Underwood at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. The major focus of Dr Thissen's laboratory is to investigate the mechanisms of regulation of growth factors, in particular the insulin-like growth factors, production and action by nutrients and cytokines. The major emphasis is now on determining the role of IGF-I in the molecular mechanisms responsible for muscle atrophy in catabolic situations. He is funded by the National Belgian Scientific Foundation. Dr Thissen has published 70 articles, reviews and book chapters. He is member of several scientific and professional societies in endocrinology and nutrition. Gil HardyFigure 3Professor Gil Hardy, PhD FRSC, is Vice President of the Australasian Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (AuSPEN), and serves on the Research Committee of the American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN). Gil trained as a Biochemist, with degrees from Bristol and Cambridge Universities. He subsequently worked in Belgium and Germany, and then began postdoctoral research in the Metabolic Research Laboratory of Nobel Prize Winner, the late Professor Sir Hans Krebs in Oxford. In 1998, Dr Hardy was appointed professor in the School of Biological Sciences at Oxford Brookes University, where he expanded his research interests and helped develop new courses in clinical nutrition. He is currently Professor of Pharmaceutical Nutrition in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at the University of Auckland, conducting collaborative formulation and metabolic research into specialised nutraceuticals with colleagues in UK, Australasia and Latin America. Professor Hardy has served on the Council of the UK Nutrition Society, and was a founder member of its Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism Group. He is past-chairman of the British Pharmaceutical Nutrition Group, which in 2002 established the annual ‘Allwood-Hardy’ lecture jointly in his honour. An active member of ASPEN, AuSPEN, ESPEN and SBPNE, he has lectured on nutraceuticals and pharmaceutical issues of nutrition therapy at many of their annual congresses. He is Editor of Complete Nutrition Australasia, a Section Editor for Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care, Associate Editor of Current Research in Nutraceuticals, and edits the ‘Nutraceuticals’ column for the international journal Nutrition. In all, Professor Hardy has presented approximately 170 papers, posters and educational lectures in the fields of pharmaceutical and clinical nutrition. He is recognised as a world authority on the pharmaceutical and metabolic properties of glutamine and is the founder and organiser of the internationally acclaimed Oxford Glutamine Workshops. Together with other panteral nutrition enthusiasts he represents the International Parenteral Nutrition Education and Methodology Advancement (IPANEMA), a charitable trust which sponsors satellite symposia at major scientific meetings around the world. Antonio C. CamposFigure 4Antonio Carlos Campos, MD PhD, was born in 1957 in Curitiba, Brazil. He graduated in the Medical School of the Federal University of Parana in Curitiba in 1980. After finishing his residency in general surgery, he spent a year in Montpellier, France, with Professor Henri Joyeux. During this period, his interest for clinical nutrition was stimulated by his participation in several clinical and experimental investigations which largely focused on parenteral nutrition. In particular, he worked with the influence of parenteral lipid emulsions on liver regeneration after partial hepatectomy in dogs. Upon returning to Brazil, he obtained a master's degree in clinical surgery in 1987, working with dogs subjected to total colectomy and ileal reservoirs. At the end of 1987, he went to Syracuse, NY, USA, as a research fellow at the State University of New York, under the guidance of Professor Michael Meguid. This was a very productive period: Dr Campos participated of a number of clinical and experimental investigations covering a wide range of subjects in nutrition, including cancer, control of food intake and perioperative nutrition. After returning to Brazil, he was accepted in a PhD program in clinical surgery, and his PhD degree was obtained in 1992 working with bacterial translocation in rats receiving parenteral nutrition. In 1996, Dr Campos became professor of surgery at the Federal University of Parana, where he is now the Director of the Graduate Program in Clinical Surgery at the same University. During his entire career, he has devoted a substantial amount of work to nutrition. He has over 130 papers published in national and international journals, mostly on nutrition and surgery. Dr Campos has participated as a speaker at over 400 congresses. He was president of the Brazilian Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition from 1997–99, and president of the Latin American Federation of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (FELANPE) from 1999–2001. Dr Campos is a Section Editor of Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care and has been the Latin American Editor of Nutrition since 1994. Berthold V. KoletzkoFigure 5Berthold V. Koletzko, MD, is Professor of Paediatrics and Head of the Division of Metabolic Diseases and Nutritional Medicine at the Hauner Children's Hospital, University of Munich, Germany. Following work at paediatric departments in South Africa and Tanzania, Dr Koletzko qualified in paediatrics at the Children's Hospital, University of Düsseldorf, Germany, and completed a fellowship in clinical nutrition and metabolism at the Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada. His research focuses on metabolism and nutrition in childhood, pregnancy and lactation, metabolic diseases, and clinical nutrition. He has co-authored more than 600 publications and received numerous awards and honours, serves as coordinator of the EU Research Programme on early nutrition programming of adult health (www.metabolic-programming.org) and of the ESPGHAN-ESPEN guidelines on pediatric parenteral nutrition, and is also currently Chair of the ESPGHAN Committee on Nutrition (www.espghan.org) and Vice-President of the German Society for Clinical Nutrition (www.dgem.de). Raanan ShamirFigure 6Raanan Shamir, MD, is currently the Chairman of the Institute of Gastroenterology, Nutrition and Liver Diseases at Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, and is a visiting Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Raanan Shamir received his MD degree in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, and was trained in pediatrics at the Beilinson Medical Center, in Petach-Tiqva, Israel. In the early 90s, he was a fellow at the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA, and came back to Israel to head the Department of Nutrition at the Israel Ministry of health. His current research interests include exploring the effects of oral insulin supplementation on the intestine, pediatric nutrition and childhood hyperlipidemia, and celiac disease. Current committee appointments include serving as Chairman of the Nutrition Committee of the Israel Pediatric Association, Chairman of the Israel Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, and a member of the Committee on Nutrition, European Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN).

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