Past Council Members
Maarten Kamp MBBS, FRACP, MHA - Immediate Past President
Maarten Kamp is an endocrinologist with a longstanding interest in diabetes. His current appointments are Senior Director of the Clinical Practice Improvement Centre and Acting Executive Director, Reform and Development Division in Queensland Health, and Associate Professor at the University of Queensland.
Maarten is President of the Australian Diabetes Society and an Executive Board member of Diabetes Australia. He Chairs the Medical Education and Scientific Council of Diabetes Australia. He was previously Chair of the Health Care and Education Committee of Diabetes Australia.
He is a member of the Steering Group for the NHMRC type 2 diabetes guidelines and is on the Expert Advisory Group for the type 2 diabetes primary prevention guidelines.
Mark Febbraio
Professor Mark Febbraio is a Principal Research Fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia and is the head of the Cellular and Molecular Metabolism Laboratory at the Baker Heart Research Institute (BHRI), Melbourne Australia. He has published over 130 peer reviewed papers with ~4000 citations in journals including Nature Medicine, The Journal of Clinical Investigation, Cell Metabolism, PNAS and Diabetes. His laboratory is focussed on understanding cellular and molecular mechanisms associated with lipid-induced inflammation and insulin resistance. He has won prizes at international, national and institutional levels including the A K McIntyre Prize for significant contributions to Australian Physiological Science (1999), and the Colin I Johnson Lectureship by the High Blood Pressure Research Council of Australia (2006). He is on the Editorial board of Diabetes, The American Journal of Physiology Endocrinology & Metabolism, Cell Stress and Chaperones, Exercise Immunology Reviews and Journal of Applied Physiology. He is on The Council of The Australian Diabetes Society and is currently the Honorary Treasurer of this Society.
Terri Allen
Assoc Professor Terri Allen is a full-time researcher with an emphasis on diabetic complications. Her main areas of interest are animal models for diabetic atherosclerosis and nephropathy. She is a NHMRC Senior Research Fellow at the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Research Institute in Melbourne and is the Program Co-ordinator for the JDRF Centre for Diabetes Complications Program (Melbourne). She has been the chair of Program Organising Committees for the ADS for the last 4 years and instigated the Pincus Taft Young Investigator Award oral session. She has been an ADS council member for the last 6 years. She is also a member of the Scientific Affairs committee and the Diabetes Australia Research committee.
