Professor Philip James
President IASO
Charles Darwin House
12 Roger Street
London
WC1N 2JU
UK
Tel + 44 20 7685 2580
Fax + 44 20 7685 2581
obesity(at)iaso.org
http://www.iaso.org

Professor Philip James is currently an honorary member of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He established the International Obesity Task Force in 1996 and as chair is currently responsible for the funding and organisation of global initiatives relating to food and health with particular emphasis on the pandemic of obesity. He is currently chair of the Presidential Council of Global Prevention Alliance tackling the global epidemic of chronic diseases with 5 global medical societies related to World Health Organisation (WHO). Professor James advises governments throughout the world on how to tackle the epidemic of obesity and chronic disease and is the  current President of the International Association for the Study of Obesity (IASO). He also developed the lithium technique for tracking salt sources for managing hypertension, the United Nation's system for calculating individual patient and population energy needs and the WHO Millennium analyses showing excess weight as in the top risk factors for global ill health with major impacts in the developing world. Professor James currently chairs the SCOUT trial on weight management with sibutramine in high risk cardiovascular patients and led the first clinical trial on orlistat and the STORM study on sibutramine. Professor James established and developed for physicians the SCOPE internet and national programmes for obesity management in Europe.