Editorial Board Member - JNH

Shirley Mcilvenny
ProfessorDepartment of Health and Nutrition
National Institute of Integrative Medicine
Australia
BIOGRAPHY:
Prof Shirley Mcilvenny MD, MBBCh, FRCGP(UK), FRACGP, DRCOG, Harvard Macy Scholar is a family physician and nutritional doctor at the National Institute of Integrative Medicine, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. She graduated from Queen’s University Belfast, UK and completed her MD thesis at Queen’s on Fatigue in a Developing Country. Dr Shirley MD is currently CEO of the Food Coach Institute which offers nutritional training worldwide and is also President of the International Association of Health and Nutrition Coaches.
Previously she was Head of Family and Community Medicine at Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University and Professor of Education at Bond University, Queensland, Australia. She spearheaded the first MRCGP International, a College Board Examination coupled with post-graduate training in Family Medicine in collaboration with the Royal College of General Practitioners in London, UK.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Her current research interests include new theories of dietary management of Type 2, gestational and pre-diabetes, obesity and nutritional interventions in mental health. Dr Shirley MD has developed on online resource and nutritional programs for Diabetes patients- the ALIVE Program. This is being rolled out globally to combat the current world-wide epidemic of diabetes.
Other Editorial Board Members - JNH

Tracey Ledoux
Department of Health and Human Performance
University of Houston
United States

NATASHA TASEVSKA
School of Nutrition and Health Promotion
Arizona State University
United States

Deeptha Sukumar
Department of Nutrition Sciences
Drexel University
United States

Leonard E Gerber
Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences
University of Rhode Island
United States

Farzad Amirabdollahian
Department of Health Sciences
Liverpool Hope University
United Kingdom

Ock K. Chun

Magdalena Pilska
Faculty of Human Nutrition and Consumer Sciences
Warsaw University of Life Sciences
Poland