Nicholas Finer BSc(Hons), MBBS, FRCP, RNutr, FAfN, FTOS

Prof. Finer obtained a degree in Biochemistry at the University of London, and qualified in Medicine at University College Hospital, London. Further postgraduate training in general (internal) medicine at St George's and St James' Hospitals, London, then Guy's Hospital preceded his appointment from 1988-2002 as Consultant Physician with a special interest in Endocrinology at Luton and Dunstable. In 2002 Prof. Finer moved to University of Cambridge School of Medicine as a senior research associate, honorary consultant endocrinologist and clinical director of the Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility. He moved to UCLH in 2008 and holds an honorary chair at University College London (and Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen). He is chair of the Education and Management Task Force of the International Association for the Study of Obesity, and the English Experts in Severe and Complex Obesity and editor of the journal Clinical Obesity.