Wayne S Cutfield ESA-SRB-APEG-NZSE 2022

Wayne S Cutfield

Dr Wayne Cutfield is Professor in Paediatric Endocrinology at the Liggins Institute, University of Auckland and practising paediatric endocrinologist at Starship Children’s Hospital a national referral centre. He is currently Director of A Better Start National Science Challenge, one of 11 large scale government research initiatives that focuses on the health and well-being of children. Previously he was Director of the Liggins Institute, the University of Auckland’s largest large scale research institutes with a focus on the developmental origins of health and disease. He is a former President of the Asia Pacific Paediatric Endocrine Society. He has published more than 200 peer reviewed manuscripts in leading journals that include the New England Journal of Medicine and the Lancet. He was featured in the perspectives section of the Lancet in 2015. He is a clinical researcher who leads research teams addressing (i) the role of the microbiome in determining weight gain, metabolism and well-being, (ii) the early prevention of childhood obesity, (iii) growth disorders in childhood and (iv) the early origins of metabolic diseases.