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Catherine Geissler
Born
Catherine Alison Geissler

(1940-02-19)19 February 1940
Edinburgh, Scotland
NationalityBritish
EducationUniversity of Edinburgh, University of California, Berkeley
Known forHuman Nutrition
SpouseThe Right Hon Sir Robin Auld

Catherine Alison Geissler, BDS, MS, PhD, R Nut., Professor Emerita of Human Nutrition, King's College London, Secretary General of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences, is a specialist in international public health nutrition.[1][2]

Education

She was born in Edinburgh and educated at the Mary Erskine School for girls. On leaving school she attended Edinburgh University, where she studied dentistry, obtaining her Bachelor of Dental Surgery BDS in 1963.

In 1963-64 she spent a research year in Paris, followed by a year as a dental surgeon in Scotland before moving to California, where she initially taught dental radiography in San Francisco City College. She was then appointed to a research position in the Department of Nutrition, University of California, Berkeley, which led to a Masters in Nutrition. After her Masters degree she went to the National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute in Teheran (under Dr Habibollah Hedayat) where she participated in studies of energy expenditure of agricultural workers and carpet weavers and rural women,[3] as well as her personal work for her PhD on lactation in different socio-economic groups in Teheran. Her PhD in Human Nutrition at Berkeley was based on her lactation studies in Teheran, Iran.

Professional Appointments

Professor of Human Nutrition, King's College London;[4] Head of department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Kings College London; Head, Division of Health Sciences, School of Health and Life Sciences, Kings College London; Director of UK Higher Education Academy, Centre for Health Sciences and Practice. She has been Attachée de recherche, Laboratoire de Nutrition Humaine, Hôpital Bichat, Paris(1972-1974) in the group of Prof. Jean Trémolières,[5] Visiting Professor at the Division of Nutritional Sciences Cornell University Ithaca, New York (1989-90) and at MRC Human Nutrition Research, and associate at Darwin College, Cambridge.

She is Professor Emerita of Human Nutrition, King's College London, Past President of The Nutrition Society of the UK & Ireland (2013-16)[6] and is currently Secretary General of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS) (2013–2022). Her principal research interests are in international public health nutrition;[7][8][9] energy metabolism and obesity;[10] and iron metabolism.[11]

She has served on many professional committees including the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries (MAFF) Food Advisory Committee, the World Cancer Research Fund grants committee, and the British and American Nutrition Societies, and extensively as consultant to international development agencies including the World Bank, CGIAR, FAO, WHO, UNICEF, the British Council, in many countries including Iran, Haiti, Mauritius, Sierra Leone, Niger, Benin, Senegal, Ghana, Ethiopia, Yemen, Thailand, Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and China. In 2000 she was interviewed by the BBC World Service about what constitutes healthy eating.[12]

Geissler has over 200 academic publications, in addition to her text books.

Personal life

She is the daughter of the artist William Geissler and the glass engraver Alison Geissler. She has lived for extended periods in several different countries before being appointed to a lectureship in human nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College, London.[13]

Distinctions

2015 XI International Nutrition and Health Prize (Premio Internacional Alimentación y Salud), Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Navarra[14]

2016 Elected Fellow of The Nutrition Society of the UK & Ireland[6]

2018 American Society for Nutrition Kellogg Prize for Lifetime Achievements in International Nutrition[15]

2020 Elected Fellow of the American Society for Nutrition[16]

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Textbooks

Food, Diet and Economic Change Past and Present Catherine Geissler, Derek J. Oddy 1993 Leicester University Press ISBN: ‎ 978-0718514501

The New Oxford Book of Food Plants J.G. Vaughan, C.A. Geissler 1997 1st edition, Oxford University Press ISBN: 019 8548257; 2009 2nd edition, Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780199549467

Fundamentals of Human Nutrition – for Students and Practitioners in Health Sciences, C. Geissler and H. Powers 2009, Churchill Livingstone Elsevier ISBN: 9780443 069727

Human Nutrition eds C. Geissler & H. Powers 2005 11th edition, Elsevier ISBN: 9780702044632; 2011 12th edition, Elsevier ISBN: ‎ 978-0702031182; 2017 13th edition, Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780198768029; Oxford University Press 14th edition in press

References

  1. ^ https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/catherine-geissler(a4f2799e-ef61-4fd7-922e-2f24978bafd8)/supervision.html
  2. ^ https://enutritionacademy.com/people/catherine-geissler/
  3. ^ Rabiee, F., & Geissler, C. (1992). The impact of maternal workload on child nutrition in rural Iran. Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 14(1), 1-6.
  4. ^ https://www.nutritionsociety.org/people/professor-catherine-geissler
  5. ^ The Journal of Nutrition, Volume 145, Issue 1, January 2015, Pages 1–4, https://doi.org/10.3945/jn.114.194324
  6. ^ a b "The Nutrition Society | Advancing Nutritional Science". www.nutritionsociety.org.
  7. ^ Nestle M, James WPT, Annan R, Margetts B, Geissler C, Kuhnlein H, Schuftan C, Cannon G, Yngve A, Popkin B, Uauy R, Jonsson U, Rayner G, Lang T. Looking into the future, what do we see? [Short communications] World Nutrition April 2012, 3, 4, 119-163
  8. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stYcY1K6oQg
  9. ^ https://council.science/fr/events/food-science-technology-nutrition-sustainable-planet-health/
  10. ^ https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mf9NAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA1&dq=%22Catherine+Geissler%22&article_id=2276,2551820&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjZj66empf3AhUjQUEAHZ9RB7wQuwV6BAgLEAY#v=onepage&q=%22Catherine%20Geissler%22&f=false
  11. ^ Geissler, C.; Singh, M. Iron, Meat and Health. Nutrients 2011, 3, 283-316. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu3030283
  12. ^ "Interview with BBC World Service – International Checkup May 31, 2000 – Healthy Eating". 2000. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
  13. ^ https://books.google.fr/books?id=hLlYiS8xwF0C&pg=PR11&lpg=PR11&dq=catherine+geissler&source=bl&ots=X_3orIa_wJ&sig=ACfU3U3J7I1hwb7agdJxdbeo64f6OVgH1w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjesIPgv6X3AhUuxIUKHdoEAn04ZBDoAXoECAwQAw#v=onepage&q=catherine%20geissler&f=false
  14. ^ "Malnutrición y obesidad, principales problemas de nutrición en salud pública". Navarra.com.
  15. ^ "NUTRITION 2021 LIVE ONLINE". www.eventscribe.net.
  16. ^ https://nutrition.org/the-american-society-for-nutrition-foundation-announces-class-of-2020-fellows/
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