Kellion Award Winner 2009
Prof Michael Horowitz
Prof Michael Horowitz (age 55) was appointed to a Personal Chair at the University of Adelaide in 1995, and has been the Director of the Endocrine and Metabolic Unit at the Royal Adelaide Hospital since 1997. His research activities are almost exclusively clinically based and relate primarily to gastrointestinal motor, sensory, and hormonal function, particularly in the context of diabetes mellitus, glycaemic control, critical illness, aging and appetite regulation. Prof Horowitz leads the NHMRC Centre of Clinical Research Excellence (CCRE) in Nutritional Physiology, Interventions and Outcomes (2007-11). He is a co-author of 467 peer-reviewed papers and 32 book chapters and is co-editor (with Prof Melvin Samsom) of a multi-author book entitled Gastrointestinal function in diabetes mellitus, published in 2004, which represents the most comprehensive treatise on this subject. He has been the recipient of a number of awards, including the Elder Prize for Scholarship at the University of Adelaide in 1995, the Distinguished Research Prize of the Gastroenterological Society of Australia (1999), the Eric Susman Prize of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (2000) and the Kellion Award of the Australian Diabetes
