Editorial introductions.

Abstract

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 15 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 Anastasia Z. KaleaAnastasia Z. KaleaDr Anastasia Z. Kalea is an Associate Professor in Teaching Nutrition and Dietetics at the UCL Division of Medicine, UK, and an honorary Associate Professor at the UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science, UK. She has over 20 years of research and teaching experience in academic institutions in the US and the UK. She is an external examiner and reviewer for undergraduate nutrition and dietetics programmes in the US, UK, and Greece. Dr Kalea is a Registered Dietitian with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK. Her research interests focus on metabolic inflammation and associated molecular nutrition pathways, on trace mineral metabolism, on nutrigenetics, precision nutrition and public health, and she has presented her work in numerous national and international conferences. Dr Kalea leads teaching for the MSc in Clinical and Public Health Nutrition, MSc in Eating Disorders and Clinical Nutrition, and the BSc in Nutrition and Medical Sciences. She is the Programme Director for the MSc course in Obesity and Clinical Nutrition at UCL. Dorothy Klimis-ZacasDorothy Klimis-ZacasDr Klimis-Zacas is professor of clinical nutrition and cooperating professor of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering at the University of Maine, USA. As a Fulbright Senior Fellow, she aided in the establishment and curricular development of the Human Nutrition and Dietetics Program at Harokopio University, Greece, where she is a cooperating professor. She is also cooperating professor at DeFENs-Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Milan, Italy. Dr Klimis-Zacas is external reviewer and examiner for undergraduate and graduate programs, on promotion and tenure committees in the US, Italy and Greece, and grant reviewer for the Ministry of Health and Religion in Greece. Her research and teaching have focused on lipid and trace mineral nutrition and metabolism associated with cardiovascular disease. Additionally, she has explored the role of signalling pathways and gene expression of berry bioactive compounds and berry-enriched diets on endothelial function, inflammation, and lipid metabolism as it relates to cardiovascular disease and the metabolic syndrome in pre-clinical and clinical studies. Her applied research investigations utilized nutritional interventions to reduce cardiovascular disease risk in adolescents both in the United States and in the Mediterranean region. Recently, she is researching the molecular mechanisms and genomic effects of polyphenols on endothelial cell migration and angiogenesis as it relates to diabetes mellitus, ischemic disorders and wound healing. A Fulbright Senior Specialist and Cariplo Fellow, Dr Klimis-Zacas is the author of over 130 peer-reviewed publications, editor of books, series volumes and one patent. She is an editorial board member for The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, editor and guest editor for Antioxidants, Nutrients (MDPI) and others. Bettina MittendorferBettina MittendorferBettina Mittendorfer graduated from the University of Vienna in Austria with a MSc in Human Nutrition, and from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, USA, with a PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry. In 1999 she came to Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, USA, for a postdoctoral research fellowship. Currently she is Associate Professor of Medicine and Nutritional Sciences and the Director of the Nutrition and Obesity Research Center Clinical Science Research Core Laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research interests focus on the regulation of muscle protein and lipid metabolism with special emphasis on obesity, aging and sexual dimorphism, which she studies in vivo in human subjects by using stable isotope labelled tracer techniques. Faidon MagkosFaidon MagkosFaidon Magkos holds a BSc degree in Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics (2000), a MSc degree in Nutrition and Exercise (2004) and a PhD degree in Human Metabolism (2008). He completed post-doctoral training at Harokopio University in Athens, Greece, and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. In 2011, Magkos was appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Center for Human Nutrition, Division of Geriatrics & Nutritional Science, at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri. He moved to Singapore in 2015 and served as Assistant Professor of Physiology at the Clinical Nutrition Research Centre, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, at the National University of Singapore. Since 2018, he is Associate Professor in Obesity Research at the Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. The study of human metabolism lies at the core of his research interests and activity. During the course of his career, Magkos has been involved in research projects examining the effects of diet, exercise, obesity and weight gain or weight loss, sex differences, and fatty liver on energy and substrate metabolism, lipid and lipoprotein kinetics, and insulin sensitivity in skeletal muscle, liver, and adipose tissue. He is a “metabolist” at heart. Since 2003, he has published 154 peer-reviewed publications and his work has been cited more than 7200 times (h-index 46).