I obtained a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from Oxford University, UK in 1980, a PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Toronto in 1986 and a Doctorate in Medicine from Oxford University in 1993. My current position is Professor in the Departments of Nutritional Sciences and Medicine, University of Toronto, and Staff Member, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto. My research interests are the effects of dietary carbohydrates on human physiology and metabolism. I am, perhaps, most well known for work on the glycemic index, which was first developed by Dr David Jenkins and me, along with other collaborators, while I was a medical student. I have written or co-authored over 270 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and also authored a book entitled: The Glycaemic Index: A Physiological Classification of Dietary Carbohydrate published in 2006 by CABI (www.cabi.org). In 1997 I founded GI Testing, Inc. to provide confidential GI testing services to industry. To cope with the high demand for GI testing and to enable a wider range of clinical research services to be provided, Glycemic Index Laboratories, Inc. (http://www.gilabs.com) was formed in 2004; a corporation of which I am President. More important than anything else, I am married, with three children aged 23, 21 and 14 years. I enjoy orienteering, cycling and recorder playing.
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