Dietitians
Luigi Fontana
Italian nutritionist.
Life and work
The story behind the role.
Italian nutritionist.
Luigi Fontana is a physician scientist who studies healthy longevity, with a focus on calorie restriction, endurance exercise and metabolism. He is the Leonard P Ullmann Chair in Translational Metabolic Health at the Charles Perkins Centre, where he directs the Charles Perkins Centre Royal Prince Alfred Clinic and the CPC RPA Health for Life Research, Educational and Clinical Program. He is also a professor of medicine and nutrition in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney and a clinical academic in the Department of Endocrinology at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia. Fontana was a professor of medicine and co-director of the Healthy Longevity Program at Washington University School of Medicine.
Encyclopaedic excerpts from Luigi Fontana (medical researcher); shortened for length and available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Achievements and distinctions
- 01
Italian nutritionist.
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Breakthroughs in Gerontology Awards
Career and education
Employers and institutions
Washington University in St. Louis · University of Sydney · University of Salerno
Education
University of Padua · University of Verona
Places of work
Salerno
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