Wendy Brown

Chair of the Monash University Department of Surgery at the Alfred Hospital and the Monash School of Translational Medicine. wendy.brown@monash.edu

Biography

Wendy is the Programme Director Surgical Services Alfred Health, Director of the Oesophago-Gastric-Bariatric unit at The Alfred and Director of the Monash University Centre for Obesity Research and Education and Clinical Director of the National Bariatric Surgery Registry and Victorian State Upper GI Cancer Registry.

articles

A man measuring his waist with a measuring tape.

Overhauling obesity: Is this the end of the BMI?

Since the 1950s, doctors have relied on the body mass index (BMI) to diagnose obesity. It’s an unreliable measure that could be about to change.

Medicine and health