Katherine Samaras
St Vincent's Hospital, NSW, Australia
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Professor Katherine Samaras is a clinician and researcher in diabetes and obesity.
She is a senior staff specialist in the Department of Endocrinology, St Vincent's Hospital , Laboratory Head of the Adipose Biology Group, Diabetes and Metabolism Division at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Director and Founder of the Australian Centre of Metabolic Health, St Vincent's Clinic and Conjoint Professor of Medicine at UNSW. She has previously held positions at St Thomas' Hospital London and the Harvard School of Public Health.
She established obesity services at St Vincent's Public Hospital, and currently serves on the NSW Premier's Childhood Obesity and Overweight Prevention Expert Panel (NSW Health) and as NSW Health's Clinical Spokesperson for the Make Healthy Normal Campaign.
She has an active role in policy development, writing the guidelines for in-hospital nutrition for diabetes and enteral nutrition in diabetes for the Australian Diabetes Society. She contributed to the NSW Health guidelines for bariatric surgery. She is a major contributor to strategies for obesity prevention in youth with schizophrenia for NSW Health and contributing to international efforts in this area. She has played a major role in describing the endocrine complications of HIV-infection.
She has published over 120 scientific papers, with the major focus on the determinants and pathophysiology of obesity and diabetes. Most recently, her research has described the genetic regulation of adipose tissue, the epigenetics of fat and the effects of bariatric surgery.
Presentations this author is a contributor to:
National in-hospital nutrition guidelines for people with diabetes. Process and outcomes from a National Diabetes Services Scheme / Australian Diabetes Society initiative. (#303)
1:00 PM
Elizabeth Blanchard
ADS Clinical Poster Viewing
Diabetes, incident diabetes and impaired fasting glucose: 2-year effects on brain volume and cognition in the elderly. The Sydney Memory and Ageing Study (#46)
12:30 PM
Katherine Samaras
ADS Clinical Orals - Hypoglycaemia and the Brain
(Not too) Sweet young things. Metabolic disease, youth and antipsychotics. (#6)
9:30 AM
Katherine Samaras
ADS Clinical Symposium - Special Needs/ Vulnerable Patients with Diabetes
Adipose tissue regulation of cell-mediated inflammation and 12-month outcomes after bariatric surgery in obesity and type 2 diabetes. (#156)
5:15 PM
Katherine Samaras
ADS Clinical Orals - Obesity/Physiology/Glycaemia
“Change in all things is sweet”: the effects of antipsychotic switching on glycemic control and obesity in chronic schizophrenia. (#302)
1:00 PM
Rosanne Arnoldy
ADS Clinical Poster Viewing
Keeping the Body in Mind: Early detection and prevention of diabetes in youth with psychosis (#329)
1:00 PM
Simon Rosenbaum
ADS Clinical Poster Viewing
How the St Vincent's declaration can help mental health clinicians HeAL the physical burden of disease in severe mental illness (#308)
1:00 PM
Katherine Samaras
ADS Clinical Poster Viewing