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Liver Sieve Research Group - PeopleProf. Robin Fraser:Email robin.fraser@otago.ac.nz Robin Fraser is Medical Director of the Canterbury Medical Research Foundation (CMRF). He is also a teacher of pathology and HOD at the University of Otago, Christchurch as well as an active Coroners' Pathologist. After graduating in Medicine at the Universityof Sydney and three years at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital he began his medical career as a country doctor in Australia. His interest in medical research led him to gain his PhD in the field of lipoprotein metabolism from the Australian National University. He took a post-doc at the University of Chicago before becoming a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney. Robin took an appointment as an Associate Professor at the Christchurch School of Medicine and Health Sciences in 1974. He is now Emeritus Professor but keeps his interest in the liver sieve as visiting professor to the University of Sydney. This work is directed by Prof. David Le Couteur (Centre for Education and Research on Ageing at Concord Hospital and the ANZAC Institute of Medical Research) Robin is a collaborator and an advisor to this exciting work. Dr Bruce Dobbs:Email bruce.dobbs@cdhb.govt.nz Bruce Dobbs is a Scientific Officer working in the department of Surgery and Gastroenterology, Canterbury District Health Board. His interest in liver function arose during his MSc studies at Lincoln University and continued after moving to Dunedin in 1978 where he completed a PhD in liver preservation for transplantation. Clinical interests at Canterbury Health include gastrointestinal motility and its pathology. He remains a advisor to our research. Dr Hamish Jamieson:Email HamishJ@cdhb.govt.nz Hamish Jamieson completed a BMedSci project with our group in Christchurch in 1998 in which he showed that in diabetic rats fatty liver was associated with an increase in the porosity of their liver sieve. Following his medical degree and a two years’ internship in Canterbury he joined our affiliated Sydney group, and with the Le Couteur team showed that in animals and humans with long-standing diabetes the sieve’s porosity decreased in conjunction with an increase in the circulating cholesterol. During his PhD years he studied other parameters altering porosity and lipoprotein balance, including a six month stint at the Johns Hopkins where, as part of a team studying the benefit of low caloric diets, showed that these tended to prevent the porosity decrease of old age and the accompanying hyperlipoproteinaemia. He has returned to Christchurch, a Medical Registrar with the North Canterbury District Health Board and part of our research team.
Affiliation between the University of Otago, Christchurch and the University of Sydney, Concord
(Left to Right, Robin Fraser, Sarah Hilmer, Victoria Cogger, and David Le Couteur) Prof. David Le Couteur: Professor of Geriatric Medicine For any enquiries please email robin.fraser@otago.ac.nz Bodies that have supported this research include:
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