Jim Mann CNZM, PhD, DM, FRACP, FFPHM, FRSNZ

Jim Mann has been Professor in Human Nutrition and Medicine at the University of Otago. His research has principally been in the fields of lipids and carbohydrates as they relate to coronary heart disease and diabetes and in the field of obesity.
Jim Mann has been Professor in Human Nutrition and Medicine at the University of Otago and Consultant Physician (Endocrinology) in Dunedin Hospital for 25 years. In the preceding years he lectured at the University of Oxford and worked as a Consultant Physician in the Radcliffe Infirmary.
He is also the Director of the Edgar Diabetes and Obesity Research (EDOR), the WHO Collaborating Centre for Human Nutrition and Principal Investigator for the Riddet Institute, a National Centre of Research Excellence at Massey University, Palmerston North.
His research has principally been in the fields of lipids and carbohydrates as they relate to coronary heart disease and diabetes and in the field of obesity. However he has also been particularly interested in the role of obesity as a cause of cancer and was a member of the Advisory Group and Panel of the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) which produced the recent Reports on “Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer”, and the 2009 Policy Report, “Policy and Action for Cancer Prevention”.