Changing Conversation from ‘Chronic Disease’ to ‘Chronic Health’

Luigi Fontana is an internationally recognized physician scientist and one of the world’s leaders in the fields of nutrition, metabolism and healthy longevity in humans. His pioneering studies on the effects of dietary restriction in humans have opened a new area of nutrition-related research that holds tremendous promise for the prevention of age-related chronic diseases and for the understanding of the biology of human aging.

Professor Fontana is the Leonard P. Ullmann Chair of Translational Metabolic Health at the Charles Perkins Centre, where he directs the Charles Perkins Centre Royal Prince Alfred Clinic and the Health for Life Research, Clinical & Educational Program. He is also a Professor of Medicine and Nutrition in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney and a Clinical Academic in the Department of Endocrinology at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

Professor Fontana was a Senior Scientist at the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS), a Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at Washington University in St.Louis (USA), and co-director of the Longevity Research Program at Washington University. He graduated with highest honors from the Verona University Medical School (1994), where he completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine (1999). He also received a Ph.D. in Metabolism and Clinical Pharmacology from the University of Padua Medical School (2003).

A light lunch will be served in the foyer following the presentation.