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Catherine Geissler
Born
Catherine Alison Geissler[1]

19 February 1940
Edinburgh
NationalityBritish
EducationUniversity of Edinburgh, University of California, Berkeley
Known forHuman Nutrition
SpouseThe Right Hon Sir Robin Auld

Catherine Alison Geissler, Lady Auld[1] is a prominent British nutritionist and author and co-author of widely recognised reference textbooks on human nutrition.[2][3][4]

Education

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Geissler was born in Edinburgh and educated at the Mary Erskine School for girls. On leaving school she attended Edinburgh University, where she studied dentistry, obtaining her Bachelor of Dental Surgery BDS in 1963.

In 1963-64 she spent a research year in Paris, followed by a year as a dental surgeon in Scotland before moving to California, where she initially taught dental radiography in San Francisco City College. She was then appointed to a research position in the Department of Nutrition, University of California, Berkeley, which led to a Masters in Nutrition (1971). After her Master's degree she went to the National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute in Teheran (under Habibollah Hedayat), where she participated in studies of energy expenditure of agricultural workers,[5] carpet weavers[6] and rural women.[7] as well as her personal work for her PhD on lactation in different socio-economic groups in Teheran. Her PhD in Human Nutrition at Berkeley was based on her lactation studies in Teheran, Iran.[8][9][10]

Professional appointments

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Professor of Human Nutrition, King's College London;[11] Head of department of Nutrition and Dietetics, King's College London; Head, Division of Health Sciences, School of Health and Life Sciences, King's College London; Director of UK Higher Education Academy, Centre for Health Sciences and Practice. She has worked as Attachée de recherche, Laboratoire de Nutrition Humaine (INSERM), Hôpital Bichat, Paris(1972-1974) in the group of Jean Trémolières,[12] Visiting Professor at the Division of Nutritional Sciences Cornell University Ithaca, New York (1989–90) and at MRC Human Nutrition Research, and associate at Darwin College, Cambridge (2010).

She is Professor Emerita of Human Nutrition, King's College London, Past President of The Nutrition Society of the UK & Ireland (2013–16)[13] and is currently Secretary General of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS) (2013–2022). Her principal research interests are in international public health nutrition;[14] energy metabolism and obesity;[15][16][17][18] and iron metabolism.[19][20] In 2003 she was invited by the Belgian government to give expert evidence on the role of ephedrine in the treatment of obesity.

A recognized authority on human nutrition and public health,[21] Geissler has served on many professional committees including the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries (MAFF) Food Advisory Committee, the World Cancer Research Fund grants committee, and the British and American Nutrition Societies, and extensively as consultant to international development agencies including the World Bank (Senegal, Diourbel 1980, Senegal, Casamance 1980, Ghana 1981, Syria 1984, Niger 1991, Niger 1992, Benin 1993, Madagascar 1995, Armenia 1997), CGIAR, FAO (Mauritius 1974, Haiti 1982), WHO, the International Livestock Centre for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 1982, UNICEF (Iran 1998), the British Council (Sierra Leone 1984, Syria 1984), in many countries including Iran, Haiti, Mauritius, Sierra Leone, Niger, Benin, Senegal, Ghana, Ethiopia, Yemen,[22] Thailand, Philippines,[23] Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia and China.[24][25][26]

Geissler has over 200 academic publications, in addition to her text books.

Personal life

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She is the daughter of the artist William Geissler and the glass engraver Alison Geissler. She lived for extended periods in several different countries before her appointment in 1976 to a lectureship in human nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College, London,[27] which in 1985 merged with King's College, London.[28]

Distinctions

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2003 Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) (Nº25241)

2015 XI International Nutrition and Health Prize (Premio Internacional Alimentación y Salud), Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Navarra[29]

2016 Elected Fellow of The Nutrition Society of the UK & Ireland[13]

2018 American Society for Nutrition Kellogg Prize for Lifetime Achievements in International Nutrition[30]

2020 Elected Fellow of the American Society for Nutrition[31]

Textbooks

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  • Food, Diet and Economic Change Past and Present Catherine Geissler, Derek J. Oddy 1993 Leicester University Press ISBN 978-0718514501
  • The New Oxford Book of Food Plants J.G. Vaughan, C.A. Geissler 1997 1st edition, Oxford University Press ISBN 0198548257; 2009 2nd edition, Oxford University Press ISBN 9780199549467
  • Fundamentals of Human Nutrition – for Students and Practitioners in Health Sciences, C. Geissler and H. Powers 2009, Churchill Livingstone Elsevier ISBN 9780443069727
  • Human Nutrition eds C. Geissler & H. Powers 2005 11th edition, Elsevier ISBN 9780702044632; 2011 12th edition, Elsevier ISBN 978-0702031182; 2017 13th edition, Oxford University Press ISBN 9780198768029; 2023 14th edition Oxford University Press ISBN 9780198866657

References

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  1. ^ a b "Geissler, Catherine - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies | Library of Congress, from LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". Library of Congress. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  2. ^ "Catherine Geissler - Research Students - Research Portal, King's College, London".
  3. ^ "enutrition academy". Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  4. ^ "eNutritionAcademyTV, Jul 14, 2014". YouTube. 2014. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  5. ^ Brun, TA; Geissler, CA; Mirbagheri, I.; Hormozdiary, H.; Bastani, J.; Hedayat, H. (1979). "The energy expenditure of Iranian agricultural worker". The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 32 (10): 2154–2161. doi:10.1093/ajcn/32.10.2154. PMID 484535.
  6. ^ Geissler, C. A.; Brun, T. A.; Mirbagheri, I.; Soheli, A.; Naghibi, A.; Hedayat, H. (1981). "The energy expenditure of female carpet weavers and rural women in Iran". The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 34 (12): 2776–2783. doi:10.1093/ajcn/34.12.2776. PMID 7315779.
  7. ^ Rabiee, Fatimeh; Geissler, Catherine (1992). "The Impact of Maternal Workload on Child Nutrition in Rural Iran". Food and Nutrition Bulletin. 14: 1–6. doi:10.1177/156482659201400101. S2CID 81677966.
  8. ^ Geissler, C.; Calloway, DH; Margen, S. (1978). "Lactation and pregnancy in Iran. I. Social and economic aspects". The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 31 (1): 160–168. doi:10.1093/ajcn/31.1.160. PMID 619600.
  9. ^ Geissler, C.; Calloway, DH; Margen, S. (1978). "Lactation and pregnancy in Iran II. Diet and nutritional status". The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 31 (2): 341–354. doi:10.1093/ajcn/31.2.341. PMID 623055.
  10. ^ Geissler, C.; Margen, S.; Calloway, DH (1979). "Lactation and pregnancy in Iran III. Hormonal factors". The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 32 (5): 1097–1111. doi:10.1093/ajcn/32.5.1097. PMID 433822.
  11. ^ "Professor Catherine Geissler | the Nutrition Society".
  12. ^ Depecker, Thomas; Lhuissier, Anne (2015). "Jean Trémolières: 1913–1976". The Journal of Nutrition. 145 (1): 1–4. doi:10.3945/jn.114.194324. PMID 25355840.
  13. ^ a b "The Nutrition Society | Advancing Nutritional Science". www.nutritionsociety.org.
  14. ^ Nestle M, James WPT, Annan R, Margetts B, Geissler C, Kuhnlein H, Schuftan C, Cannon G, Yngve A, Popkin B, Uauy R, Jonsson U, Rayner G, Lang T. Looking into the future, what do we see? [Short communications] World Nutrition April 2012, 3, 4, 119-163
  15. ^ "Childhood obesity in the UK". YouTube. 11 January 2019. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  16. ^ Geissler, C. A. (1993). "Effects of weight loss, ephedrine and aspirin on energy expenditure in obese women". International Journal of Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorders. 17 (Suppl 1): S45-8. PMID 8384180.
  17. ^ "British medical world declares full-scale war on fat, Graham Heathcote, The Day, New London, p27 August 27 1982". Retrieved 25 April 2022.
  18. ^ Shah, M.; Miller, D. S.; Geissler, C. A. (1988). "Lower metabolic rates of post-obese versus lean women: Thermogenesis, basal metabolic rate and genetics". European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 42 (9): 741–752. PMID 3181107.
  19. ^ Geissler, Catherine; Singh, Mamta (2011). "Iron, Meat and Health". Nutrients. 3 (3): 283–316. doi:10.3390/nu3030283. PMC 3257743. PMID 22254098.
  20. ^ Hutchinson, C.; Geissler, C. A.; Powell, J. J.; Bomford, A. (2007). "Proton pump inhibitors suppress absorption of dietary non-haem iron in hereditary haemochromatosis". Gut. 56 (9): 1291–1295. doi:10.1136/gut.2006.108613. PMC 1954964. PMID 17344278.
  21. ^ "BBC World Service – International Checkup May 31, 2000 – Healthy Eating". 2000. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
  22. ^ El-Daher, Samar; Geissler, Catherine (1990). "North Yemen: From farming to foreign funding". Food Policy. 15 (6): 531–535. doi:10.1016/0306-9192(90)90044-Z.
  23. ^ Geissler, Catherine; Miller, Derek (1982). "Nutrition and GNP". Food Policy. 7 (3): 191–206. doi:10.1016/0306-9192(82)90057-4.
  24. ^ Junshi, Chen; Brun, Thierrya; Campbell, T.Colin; Junyao, Li; Geissler, Catherinea; Li, Ming (1990). "Plasma cotinine, smoking, and lung cancer in China". The Lancet. 335 (8699): 1225–1226. doi:10.1016/0140-6736(90)92752-4. PMID 1971071. S2CID 11221947.
  25. ^ Campbell, T. Colin; Junshi, Chen; Brun, Thierry; Parpia, Banoo; Yinsheng, Qu; Chumming, Chen; Geissler, Catherine (1992). "China: From diseases of poverty to diseases of affluence. Policy implications of the epidemiological transition". Ecology of Food and Nutrition. 27 (2): 133–144. Bibcode:1992EcoFN..27..133C. doi:10.1080/03670244.1992.9991235.
  26. ^ Chen, J.; Geissler, C.; Parpia, B.; Li, J.; Campbell, T. C. (1992). "Antioxidant Status and Cancer Mortality in China". International Journal of Epidemiology. 21 (4): 625–635. doi:10.1093/ije/21.4.625. PMID 1521964.
  27. ^ A relevant account of the development of the Department of Nutrition and its staff at Queen Elizabeth College under John Yudkin from the 1960s onwards is outlined in the preface to From Plain Fare to Fusion Food by D.J. Oddy, Boydell Press, Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK, 2003, ISBN 0851159346
  28. ^ "History of Queen Elizabeth College". Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  29. ^ "Malnutrición y obesidad, principales problemas de nutrición en salud pública (Malnutrition and obesity, principal problems of public health)". Navarra.com. 17 October 2015.
  30. ^ "NUTRITION 2021 LIVE ONLINE". www.eventscribe.net.
  31. ^ "The American Society for Nutrition Foundation Announces Class of 2020 Fellows". 13 May 2020.
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