Associate Professor Priya Sumithran

Associate Professor Priya Sumithran is an endocrinologist and clinician researcher. She is clinical lead of obesity medicine at Alfred Health and head of the Obesity and Metabolic Medicine group at the School of Translational Medicine, Monash University. Her clinical work focuses on the care of people with obesity and related chronic diseases, and her research interests are in the neuroendocrine regulation of appetite and eating behaviours, the clinical application of medications and surgery for metabolic diseases, and models of care for management of obesity.