Our Executive Committee
The Centre is governed by an
Executive Committee with representation from each of the ATN universities.
The Executive Committee is responsible for determining the direction of
research projects evolving from the initial project portfolio and for the
allocation of the Centre's research funds. This process is aided by the
annual forum and project review which is open to all members of the centre.
The Director,
Associate Professor Jon Buckley chairs
biannual meetings of the committee and has the overall responsibility for
the executive administration of the program.
The Executive Committee
comprises Co-Directors:
Associate Professor Jon Buckley
(University of South Australia),
Professor Andrew Hills (Queensland University
of Technology),
Professor John Mamo
(Curtin University),
Associate Professor Neil
Mann (RMIT University),
Associate Professor Marion Haas (University of Technology Sydney),
Executive Officer
Dr Mark Hochman
(University of South Australia),
and Clerical Officer
Miss Erin Riley (University of South Australia).
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University of South Australia
 Associate
Professor
Jon Buckley is Senior Lecturer in Physiology and Biochemistry within
the Division of Health Sciences at the University of South
Australia.
Associate Professor Buckley is also the Deputy Director of the Nutritional Physiology
Research Centre. This research centre investigates the role of diet
and exercise interventions on health. His main research
work has been in examining the effects of nutrition and exercise on
physiological function. He has received in excess of $3 million in
nationally competitive grants and consultancies, and has published
in the fields of exercise and nutrition research.
Associate Professor Buckley's most significant contribution to the field of nutrition
and exercise has been his work on the physiological benefits of
combining exercise and bovine colostrum supplementation on
physiological function. This work has been carried out in
collaboration with industry partners, and has recently extended to
investigating effects on muscle function and resistance to disease,
leading to the patenting and development of new nutritional products
for both domestic and export markets.
More recently, his work has focused on the role of exercise and
nutrition on cardiovascular and metabolic health and, in
collaboration with industry partners and colleagues from
collaborating institutions, has been investigating the benefits of
various proprietary nutritional and/or technologies for the
assessment and/or improvement of cardiovascular and metabolic
health. The findings from these investigations have been detailed in
confidential reports to the industry sponsors, while other
non-confidential information has been presented in the recent
conference proceedings and publications.
Qualifications:
B.App.Sc (Exercise & Sports Science) University of South Australia.
B.Ss (Honours) University of Adelaide and PhD. University of
Adelaide.
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Queensland University of Technology
 Professor
Andrew Hills is a Professor in the School of Human Movement Studies
and Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation at the Queensland
University of Technology.
Professor Hills is a prominent exercise scientist with a primary
research interest in exercise and obesity and related chronic
diseases. His research group has conducted numerous physical
activity interventions for a range of populations including
overweight children and adults. He was a member of the Expert
Working Group (AIHW), and recently a participant and presenter at a
World Health Organisation Expert meeting on Childhood Obesity, a
contribution to the implementation of the WHO Global Strategy on
Diet, Physical Activity and Health in Kobe, Japan.
Professor Hills is a Series Editor for the prestigious Medicine and
Sport Science Series, S. Karger AG, Basel, Switzerland and an
Editorial Board member and reviewer of a number of leading journals
and scientific organisations. Professor Hills was the first
non-medical President of the Australasian Society for the Study of
Obesity (ASSO) (2001-2003) and previously served as Vice-President
and Secretary. He is also a Fellow of Sports Medicine Australia
(SMA), Chair of the International Liaison Committee for the 2006
International Congress on Obesity (Sydney) and Chair of the
Satellite Conference on ‘Physical Activity and Obesity’ to be held
in Brisbane prior to the main meeting.
Qualifications:
MSc, PhD, FASMF
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Curtin University
 Associate Professor Mamo is the Director of Research and Development in
the School of Public Health at Curtin University.
His position was created and designed to enhance the integration and
development of research for the School of Public Health with other
schools of the Division of Health Science, Curtin University and
external agencies.
Previously, Associate Professor Mamo was the Head of Department of
Nutrition, Dietetics, Food Science and Environmental Health. He has
also covered extensive involvement in Research and Development
supported by a number of competitive granting agencies including the
National Health and Medical Research Council, the National Heart
Foundation, Meat and Livestock Association, Grains Research
Development Corporation, Fish Research Development Corporation,
Dairy Australia, the Australian Research Council and Cooperative
Research Centres. He has held multiple executive positions with
professional bodies including the Australian Atherosclerosis
Society; International Atherosclerosis Society; Australian Vascular
Biology Society; Nutrition Society of Australia.
Collectively, Associate Professor Mamo’s broad interests are in
metabolic diseases including cardiovascular, obesity, Alzheimer’s,
HIV-AIDS and diabetes mellitus. Studies include cellular, animal as
well as clinical. He also has increasing involvement in development
of neutraceuticals and food commodity preparations with several
industry partners. Note the latter are subject to intellectual
property arrangement.
Qualifications:
BAgSc, Honours (First Class) University of Adelaide and PhD
University of Adelaide.
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RMIT University
Associate Professor Neil Mann has been
Associate Professor for Nutrition and Food Science at RMIT
University since 2002 and was previously a senior lecturer and
research fellow since 1994.
He coordinates research projects in the area of long chain fatty
acids in the diet and their subsequent conversion to vasoactive
eicosanoid compounds and their effect on platelet function. On a day
to day basis the predominant tasks in this position have involved
setting up haematological instruments for the measurement of various
blood parameters on human studies, writing grant applications and
ethics proposals along with the preparation of journal articles
relating to projects already completed, recruitment of human
subjects for further clinical trials, preparation of dietary
questionnaires and data bases. Current research areas also include
investigations into obesity, diabetes and acne as well as other
aspects of metabolic syndrome.
Along with these research tasks he is involved in lecturing
nutrition, physiology and biochemistry units to undergraduate
students as well as supervising postgraduate students in their
research projects. In recent years his teaching areas have expanded
to include food supply systems, agribusiness and regulation of food
standards.
As RMIT's nutrition consultant he also has a role in media liaison
for nutrition/food science information to TV, radio and print media.
He is also the scientific director of the IDI (International
Diabetes Institute) – RMIT Food Science GI testing program which
offers a GI testing service to the food industry.
Qualifications:
B.App.Sci (Chemistry), B.Sci (Hons) (Biology), Dip.Ed, PhD
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University of Technology
Sydney
Associate Professor Marion Haas is Deputy Director and Associate
Professor of the Centre for Health Economics Research & Evaluation
in the Faculty of Business at the University of Technology Sydney.
Her qualifications include a PhD, Sydney; MPH, Sydney; Grad Dip App
Epi NSW Health; and B. Phty Qld. Originally a physiotherapist,
Associate Professor Haas completed her PhD in which she examined the
non-health outcomes of health care which are important to and valued
by patients.
Professor Haas’ main research interests centre around the use of an
economics framework to study choice and decision making at all
levels of the health system – policy, health services and
individual. She has been extensively involved in designing and
applying methods such as economic evaluation and discrete choice
experiments as well as the use of qualitative research methods in
health economics and health services research.
Qualifications:
PhD, Sydney; MPH, Sydney; Grad Dip App Epi NSW Health; and B. Phty
Qld
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University of South Australia
 Dr Mark Hochman, Director of Research
Services at UniSA, is the executive officer for the ATN Centre for
Metabolic Fitness.
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