Dr Maria Bryant
- Chair
- Nutritionist and Methodologist at the Leeds Clinical Trials Research Unit, University of Leeds
Trustees are elected by the ASO Membership and serve a three year term. Vacancies are advertised to the Membership when they become available and an on- line ballot is run if nominations exceed the number of vacancies.
If you wish to contact a Trustee, please email the ASO Office at [email protected]
Dr David Hughes
- Secretary
- Consultant in Endocrinology & Bariatric Medicine at the East Midlands Institute of Bariatric Medicine (Royal Derby Hospital).
Mr Patrick McGinley
- Treasurer
- Head of Costing and SLR, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust
Dr Graham Finlayson
- Chair of Communications, Partnership and Networks Committee
- Associate Professor at the School of Psychology, Faculty of Medicine & Health, University of Leeds
Dr Nerys M Astbury
- ASO Networks Officer (Midlands, South West, London & South East, East of England & Yorkshire)
- Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield Department of Primary Card Health Sciences, University of Oxford
Professor Rachel Batterham
- Adult COM Lead & Patient Council
- University College London Centre for Obesity
Mr Ken Clare
- Patient Groups Link Officer
- Registered nurse and Chair of WLSinfo, the UK's largest patient obesity charity.
Dr Nicola Heslehurst
- ASO Networks Officer (NI, Wales, Scotland, North West England & North East England)
- Senior Lecturer in Maternal Nutrition and NIHR Advanced Research Fellow at Newcastle University; Co-lead for the Early Life and Adolescence Programme in Fuse (The Centre for Translational Research in Public Health).
Dr Alex Miras
- Trustee
- Senior Lecturer and Consultant in Endocrinology and Obesity Medicine at Imperial College London
Dr Rebecca Richards
- Trustee
- Health Psychologist and Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge
Dr Kath Roberts
- UKCO Coordinator
- Registered Nutritionist; Programme Manager, Public Health England; Honorary Lecturer in Public Health, University of Sheffield
Professor R James Stubbs
- Chair of Research and Scientific Advisory Committee
- Professor of Appetite, Energy Balance, University of Leeds
Dr Abd Tahrani
- Chair Clinical Practice & Obesity Management Committee
- NIHR clinician scientist at the University of Birmingham (UOB) & Consultant in Obesity at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital
Dr Emilie Combet
- Co-opted Networks Officer (Maternity cover: NI, Wales, Scotland, North East England, North West England)
- Senior Lecturer in Nutrition, University of Glasgow
Mary O’Kane
- Co-opted member
- Consultant Dietitian (Adult Obesity), General Infirmary Leeds
Dr Simon Williams
- Co-opted member
- Subject Leader for Public Health at the University of South Wales