Joe Proietto
Professor Joseph Proietto is an Endocrinologist specialising in Diabetes and Obesity. He is a world-renowned investigator of the management of obesity. He established the first obesity clinic in Victoria at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and is now Head of the Weight control clinic at Austin Health. Professor Proietto was the inaugural Sir Edward Dunlop Medical Research Foundation, Professor of Medicine, and Head of the Metabolic Disorders Research Group in the Department of Medicine, Austin Health, The University of Melbourne. He was the inaugural coordinator of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences (The University of Melbourne), Diabetes, Obesity and Endocrinology Research Domain, and the Director of the University of Melbourne Obesity Consortium. He has been an invited panel member on several Government committees, including The National Preventative Health Taskforce Obesity Working Group, The Department of Human Services Bariatric Surgery Working Group and the National Health and Medical Research Committee Obesity Guidelines Working Committee.
Professor Proietto has published over 180 articles and several book chapters on obesity and diabetes.