Independent Advisors These Independent Advisors are at the top of their fields and work together with members of our research team to help ensure that the research we carry out is of the highest quality and that our products provide optimal nutrition for growing children.

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Professor Geoffrey Cleghorn, MBBS, FRACP, FACG

Geoffrey Cleghorn is Professor and Head of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Professor Cleghorn is a graduate of the University of Queensland Medical School and undertook postgraduate training in paediatric gastroenterology at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. Following his training he entered academic practice within the University of Queensland at the Royal Children's Hospital in Brisbane. He is currently the Clinical Director of the Children's Nutrition Research Centre and the senior paediatrician in the Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology at the Royal Children's Hospital in Brisbane.

Professor Cleghorn has published many manuscripts and book chapters and is an invited lecturer and public speaker on a number of infant-related issues including perinatal and paediatric nutrition. His research interests include the use of energy expenditure and body composition analysis in a number of disease states including chronic liver disease, cystic fibrosis, and general nutritional rehabilitation. He has been the recipient of a number of research grants from national and international granting bodies including the Australian Research Council, the National Health & Medical Research Council from Australia and the National Institutes of Health from the USA.

He has developed an extensive network of associations throughout Asia and hence has a very high profile within this region. He is a frequent, invited visitor to countries throughout Asia and has spoken on a number of nutritional and gastrointestinal topics during these visits. This profile has enabled Professor Cleghorn to be formally appointed as a visiting Professor to the Academic Teaching Staff of the Department of Child Health, University of Indonesia. He is involved in several multinational trials in Southeast Asia and he has seen a number of trainees travel to Brisbane to further their paediatric gastrointestinal and nutritional studies with him and his colleagues.

Professor Cleghorn has been a member of the well-respected Queensland Liver Transplant Service from its inception in 1985 until the present day. He has been involved in many of the historical and seminal advances in paediatric liver transplantation including the world's first successful living, related-donor liver transplant and the development of the liver cut down technique now universally known as the "Brisbane Technique". Research from the QLTS has highlighted the importance of nutrition in these patients and again is now acknowledged internationally.

He has had extensive collaborative experience with all levels of industry from the conduct of commissioned trials for regulatory approval to boardroom advice.

Memberships include the Queensland Paediatric Society, the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, the North American Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, and the European Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. In addition, he also holds the following positions:

• President, the Asian and Pacific Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
• President, The Federation of International Societies of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
• Executive Councilor, The International Pediatric Transplantation Association
• Editorial Board, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
• Editorial Board, Bailiere's Clinical Gastroenterology
• Visiting Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia

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Professor Sunil Sazawal, MD, MPH, PhD

Professor Sunil Sazawal is Associate Research Professor at the Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. He is also Professor and Director at the Center for Micronutrient Research in Annamalai University and Delhi Field Site respectively.

Professor Sazawal's distinguished medical career began in 1983 with his graduation from the University of Kashmir and subsequent post-graduate training at various centres in New Delhi and Canada, including a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA, in 1991. It was at Johns Hopkins University that Professor Sazawal also completed his PhD.

Over his career, Professor Sazawal has received several awards and honours, including the Rockefeller Foundation Special Post Doctoral Fellowship and Dr Harry Kruse award from the Johns Hopkins University Committee.

In 1995, he also received the Best Poster Award at the 1st International Congress on Pediatric Gastroenterology.

Professor Sazawal is actively involved with the Zinc Collaborative Group, a member of the Society of International Nutrition Research and is well recognised by peers in the field of micronutrient research. Professor Sazawal has been a principal investigator in many research projects funded by the World Health Organization, Geneva.

Professor Sazawal has published over 40 articles in peer reviewed scientific journals and has been an invited speaker at many nutrition meetings.

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