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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][3]

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 (1971). 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,[4] carpet weavers[5] and rural women.[6] 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.[7]

Professional Appointments

Professor of Human Nutrition, King's College London;[8] 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 worked as Attachée de recherche, Laboratoire de Nutrition Humaine (INSERM), Hôpital Bichat, Paris(1972-1974) in the group of Prof. Jean Trémolières,[9] 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 (2010).

She is Professor Emerita of Human Nutrition, King's College London, Past President of The Nutrition Society of the UK & Ireland (2013-16)[10] 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;[11] energy metabolism and obesity;[12][13][14][15] and iron metabolism.[16][17] In 2003 she was invited by the Belgian government to give expert evidence on the role of ephedrine in the treatment of obesity.

Geissler, a recognized authority on human nutrition and public health,[18] 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 (Senegal, Diourbel 1980, Senegal, Casamance 1980, Ghana 1981, Syria 1984, Niger 1991, Niger 1992, Benin 1993, Madagascar 1995, Armenia 1997), CGIAR, FAO (Mauritius 1974, Haiti 1982), WHO, the International Livestock Centre for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 1982, UNICEF (Iran 1998), the British Council (Sierra Leone 1984, Syria 1984), in many countries including Iran, Haiti, Mauritius, Sierra Leone, Niger, Benin, Senegal, Ghana, Ethiopia, Yemen,[19] Thailand, Philippines,[20] Singapore, Indonesia,[21] Malaysia and China.[22][23][24]

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 her appointment in 1976 to a lectureship in human nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College, London,[25] which in 1985 merged with King's College, London.[26]

Distinctions

2003 Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) (Nº25241)

2015 XI International Nutrition and Health Prize (Premio Internacional Alimentación y Salud), Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Navarra[27]

2016 Elected Fellow of The Nutrition Society of the UK & Ireland[10]

2018 American Society for Nutrition Kellogg Prize for Lifetime Achievements in International Nutrition[28]

2020 Elected Fellow of the American Society for Nutrition[29]

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. ^ "Catherine Geissler - Research Students - Research Portal, King's College, London".
  2. ^ "enutrition academy". Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  3. ^ "eNutritionAcademyTV, Jul 14, 2014". YouTube. 2014. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  4. ^ Brun, T.A., Geissler, C.A., Mirbagheri, I., Hormozdiary, H., Bastani, J., Hedayat, H. The energy expenditure of Iranian agricultural workers. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 32:2154-2161, 1979.
  5. ^ Geissler, C.A., Brun, T.A., Mirbagheri, I., Soheli, A., Naghibi, A., Hedayat, H. The energy expenditure of female carpet weavers and rural women in Iran. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 34:2779-2783, 1981.
  6. ^ Rabiee, F., & Geissler, C. (1992). The impact of maternal workload on child nutrition in rural Iran. Food and Nutrition Bulletin, 14(1), 1-6.
  7. ^ Geissler, C.A., Calloway, D.H., Margen, S. Lactation and pregnancy in Iran I. Social and economic aspects. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 31:160-168, 1978; II. Diet and nutritional status. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 31:341-354, 1978; III. Hormonal factors. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 32: 1097-1111, 1979
  8. ^ "Professor Catherine Geissler | the Nutrition Society".
  9. ^ The Journal of Nutrition, Volume 145, Issue 1, January 2015, Pages 1–4, https://doi.org/10.3945/jn.114.194324
  10. ^ a b "The Nutrition Society | Advancing Nutritional Science". www.nutritionsociety.org.
  11. ^ 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
  12. ^ "Childhood obesity in the UK". YouTube. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  13. ^ Geissler, C.A. Effects of weight loss, ephedrine, and aspirin on energy expenditure in obese women. Int. J. Obes. 17 (Suppl 1):S45-S48, 1993
  14. ^ "British medical world declares full-scale war on fat, Graham Heathcote, The Day, New London, p27 August 27 1982". Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  15. ^ Shah, M., Miller, D.S., Geissler, C.A. Lower metabolic rates of post-obese versus lean: thermogenesis, basal metabolic rate genetics. Eur. J. Clin. Nutr. 42:741-752, 1988
  16. ^ Geissler, C.; Singh, M. Iron, Meat and Health. Nutrients 2011, 3, 283-316. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu3030283
  17. ^ Hutchinson C, Geissler C, Powell J, Bomford A. (2007) Proton pump inhibitors suppress absorption of dietary non-haem iron in hereditary haemochromatosis. Gut 56:1291-1295
  18. ^ "BBC World Service – International Checkup May 31, 2000 – Healthy Eating". 2000. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
  19. ^ El Daher, S., Geissler, C.A. From farming to foreign funding: food and agriculture in North Yemen. Food Policy. 15(6):531-534, 1990
  20. ^ Geissler, C.A., Miller, D.S. Nutrition and GNP. A comparison of problems in Thailand and the Philippines, Food Policy 7(3):191-206, 1982
  21. ^ Mackilligin, G., Geissler, C., Djalil, H., Matulessy, P., Ranggasudira, A.R., Soerjodibroto, W., Sugih, R. Factory environmental conditions, nutritional status, health and productivity of women workers in Jakarta: effect of selected interventions. Proc. 3rd Int. Conf. on Education and Training in Occupational Health. Oct 1991. J. Univ. Occup. Envir. Health. 14: Suppl March; 240-254, 1992
  22. ^ Chen, J., Brun, T.A., Campbell, T.C., Li, J., Geissler, C.A., Shen, T. Plasma cotinine, smoking and lung cancer in China. Lancet 335:1225-1226, 1990
  23. ^ Campbell, T.C., Junshi, C., Brun, T., Parpia, B., Yinsheng, Q., Chunming, C., Geissler, C.A. China: from diseases of poverty to diseases of affluence. Policy implications of the epidemiological transition. Ecol. Food & Nutr 27:133-144, 1992
  24. ^ Chen, J., Geissler, C., Parpia, B., Li, J., Campbell, T.C. Antioxidant status and cancer mortality in China. Int. J. Epidem. 21:625-635, 1992
  25. ^ A relevant account of the development of the Department of Nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College under Professor John Yudkin from the 1960s onwards is outlined in the preface to From Plain Fare to Fusion Food by D.J. Oddy, Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK, 2003, ISBN: 0851159346 9780851159348
  26. ^ "History of Queen Elizabeth College". Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  27. ^ "Malnutrición y obesidad, principales problemas de nutrición en salud pública (Malnutrition and obesity, principal problems of public health)". Navarra.com.
  28. ^ "NUTRITION 2021 LIVE ONLINE". www.eventscribe.net.
  29. ^ "The American Society for Nutrition Foundation Announces Class of 2020 Fellows". 13 May 2020.
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