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Dr John Stanley

After periods of time working as a nutritionist in government, industry and academia, John Stanley now divides his time between teaching and consultancy. He was appointed Lecturer in Biochemistry at Trinity College, Oxford in October 1995 and Lecturer in Biochemistry at St Hugh's College, Oxford in October 2006. Both posts involve teaching metabolism, a basic part of both courses, to biochemistry and medical students. He is also a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford.

John Stanley's consultancy, Lincoln Edge Nutrition, has been providing nutrition advice to government and industry since April 1999. He has been a regular contributor to the journal Lipid Technologyand has been publishing an article on a subject of current interest to the fats and oils industry in human nutrition every two months since January 1999. John Stanley was appointed Adviser to the Food Standards Agency for their research programme on Diet and Cardiovascular Health in February 2004. He has also carried out consultancy work for the Coffee Industry and the Cereal Industry.

John Stanley has appeared on radio and television including the BBC TV nine o'clock News, Healthcheck Watchdog, BBC Radio's File on Four, BBC Radio's Material World and Border Television.

Dr Sarah Jarvis

Dr Sarah Jarvis is a GP, GP trainer, fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and Women's Health spokesperson for the RCGP. She is also the Women's Health Tutor for the University of Bath/ RCGP learning programme.

Sarah Jarvis is also a medical writer and broadcaster, and is currently the Radio 2 doctor, doctor to The One Show on BBC1 and doctor to Good Housekeeping and Pregnancy magazines, with regular appearances on ITN lunchtime news, The Wright Stuff on Channel 5, GMTV and Radio 5 live.

She has been a regular contributor to journals including Update, Doctor, Practice Nurse, the British Journal of Cardiology, Today Newspaper, the Sunday Telegraph, Women's Health and the Guardian. She has sat on a number of advisory boards for medical journals, including Update, Doctor, Young Principals and Horizons.

Dr Sarah Schenker

Dr Sarah Schenker is one of the most high profile and influential nutritionists in the UK and is a member of the British Dietetic Association; The Nutrition Society; The Guild of Health Writers and has served on both professional and government committees.

She has contributed to every daily national newspaper on numerous diet and health issues as well as appearing regularly on TV and radio. Sarah regularly writes for magazines, newspapers and journals.

Sarah is a qualified Accredited Sports Dietitian and is a consultant to Norwich City Football Club and Delia Smith. Sarah is a qualified State Registered Dietitian and Registered Public Health Nutritionist .

Dr Susan Mayou

Dr Susan Mayou is a consultant dermatologist with a special interest in paediatric dermatology and non-invasive cosmetic dermatology. Susan was responsible for running the paediatric dermatology clinic at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and the paediatric and adult clinic at Queen Mary's Roehampton for 15 years.

Susan is affiliated with both the Royal Society of Medicine and the British Association of Dermatology and practices through at the Cadogan Clinic. Susan is also cofounder and secretary of the British Cosmetic Dermatology Group, an Honorary Lecturer at Imperial College London, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Member of the British Association of Dermatology and British Association of Paediatric Dermatology.

Susan has been author of more than 40 peer-reviewed articles published in medical journals and has been quoted in a number of national newspapers and women's magazines.

Fiona Ford

Fiona Ford is a registered dietitian and also has a Master's degree in Health Research.

Fiona now works at the Centre for Pregnancy Nutrition, which was created in 1990 at the University of Sheffield. The centre hosts the national Eating for Pregnancy helpline and undertakes a range of health promotion activities.
Her current research interests developing tools to measure dietary intake in pregnancy, designing interventions to reduce maternal obesity and its impact on pregnancy outcome.

Fiona has actively supported many statutory and voluntary sector programmes and groups at a local, regional, national level to share her experience and expertise about the far reaching influence and importance of food and nutrition for pregnant women and new mothers. She actively contributes to increasing awareness, development and promotion of strategies in the field of nutrition and wider public health.

She has been a long-standing member of the Food Policy, Maternal Health Strategy, Baby Friendly Initiative, and Infant Feeding groups in Sheffield. Fiona is also a member of the NICE PHCC producing guidelines on maternal and infant nutrition, gestational weight gain and postnatal weight loss, the recently formed maternity MEND group and a spokesperson for media queries to the British Dietetic Association.