Professor Mark Lawrence Wahlqvist
Professor Mark Wahlqvist AO, BMedSc, MB, BS, MD (Adelaide), MD (Uppsala), FRACP, FAFPHM, FAIFST, FACN, FTSE is a physician who has held appointments in internal medicine, public health, endocrinology, clinical nutrition, and food and nutrition science, variously at universities and research institutes in Australia, Sweden, Indonesia and China. These have involved cross-cultural, migration, indigenous and international health in community, professional, academic, non-government, national and international organisations, and settings. Awards have been widely received internationally and from Australia, Britain, the USA, Sweden, Indonesia and China. The initiation of several paradigm shifts in biomedical science and health care have included nutritional biology as extensively ecologically dependent, operationalised when dysfunctional as Ecohealth Disorders (EHD). Peer-reviewed publications number some 500, but around a thousand in all. His belief system is one of connectedness, animate and inanimate, for personal, community and planetary health.
Degrees
1963 BMedSc(Hons)(Adelaide)
1966 MB, BS (Adelaide)
1970 MD(Adelaide) for the thesis 'Arterial wall metabolism and atherogenesis'
1972 MD(Uppsala) for the thesis 'Substrate and hormone inter-relationships in human myocardial metabolism'.
Diplomas
1975 MRACP (Member, Royal Australasian College of Physicians)
1978 FRACP (Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians)
1982 FAIFST (Fellow, Australian Institute of Food Science & Technology)
1988 FACN (Fellow of American College of Nutrition)
1993 FAFPHM (Fellow, Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine)
2002 FTSE (Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering)
Awards
Charlotta Medal, Sweden, 1994
Australian Institute of Food Science & Technology – Food Industry Innovation Award, 1998
Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), Australia Day, 26th January 2000
Honorary Bataknese, Title conferred October 2002 with traditional dress by the Simalungan Bupati, North Sumatra, Indonesia, for services to the health of Bataknese women (Covered by Indonesia’s National TV network)
Life Honorary Member, British Nutrition Society, 2003;Honorary Fellow, 2016
EV McCollum International Lecture, American Society for Nutritional Sciences, 21st Septermber 2005
Lifetime Achievement Award ,Asia Pacific Nutrition Society, 2011
Distinguished Foreign Fellow, Chinese Nutrition Society, 2015
Honorary Fellow, British Nutrition Society, 2016
Living Legend of the IUNS (International Union of Nutritional Sciences) 2017
Appointments
1966 Resident Medical Officer, Royal Adelaide Hospital
1967 Research Assistant, Department of Physiology, University of Melbourne
1967-1969 Tutor in Physiology, University College, University of Melbourne
1968-1970 Research Fellow, National Heart Foundation of Australia, Department of Physiology, University of Melbourne.
1970-1971 Overseas Research Fellow, Life Insurance Medical Research Fund of Australia & New Zealand, King Gustaf Research Institute, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
1971-1972 Research Fellow, Department of Geriatrics, University of Uppsala, Sweden.
1972 Visiting Fellow, Department of Clinical Science, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University.
1973-1975 Honorary Fellow and Registrar, Department of Clinical Science, Australian National University, Canberra Hospital.
1975 Physician to the Diabetic Clinic, Endocrine Department, Woden Valley, Hospital, Australian Capital Territory.
1976-1977 Senior Lecturer, Department of Medicine, Monash University, Prince'Henry's Hospital, Melbourne.
Visiting In-patient and Out-patient Physician, Prince Henry's Hospital, Melbourne.
Diabetic Physician and Lipid Clinic Physician, Prince Henry's Hospital, Melbourne.
1978-1987 Foundation Professor of Human Nutrition, Department of Human Nutrition, Division of Biological and Health Sciences, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
1978- Consultant Physician (Endocrine and Diabetes), Prince Henry's Hospital, Melbourne.
1978-1982 Consultant Nutritionist, Alcoa of Australia.
1979- Honorary Consulting Physician, Geelong Hospital, Geelong, Victoria.
1979-1986 Clinical Teacher, Faculty of Medicine, Monash University.
1979-1986 Associate, Department of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne.
1980- Consultant Nutritionist, ADAB, Department of Foreign Affairs, Australian Government.
1982-1986 Chairman, Dietitians Board of Victoria.
1982- Director, Clinical Nutrition & Metabolism Unit, Prince Henry's Hospital.
1983-1986 Honorary Senior Associate, National Research Institute of Genontology & Geriatric Medicine, Melbourne.
1983- Honorary Clinical Nutritionist, Betlehem Hospital, Melbourne.
1985-1987 Director, Deakin Institute of Human Nutrition.
1987-2002 Professor of Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne.
1987- Honorary Consultant Physician, Little Company of Mary Hospital, Melbourne
1987-1994 Chairman, Division of Medicine, Monash Medical Centre Hospital
1992-Editor-in-Chief Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition
1990- Professorial Associate, Deakin Institute of Human Nutrition
1999-2002 Associate Dean, International Health and Development, Faculty of Medicine, Monash University
1999- Chair, Asia Pacific Health and Nutrition Centre, Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
1999- Chair, FAO (Food & Agriculture Organization of UN) Centre of Excellence, Monash University
2002-2005 Professor, Health & Behavioural Sciences, Deakin University
2002- Visiting Professor in Food Science, Biotechnology & Environmental Engineering, Hangzhou University of Commerce, China.
2003- Honorary Professor, Epidemiology & Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Monash University
2005- Visiting Professor in Medicine, Food and Nutrition Science, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang Province, China
2006-2009 Immediate Past President of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences
2005- Visiting Professor in Food Safety & Nutrition Science, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang Province, China
2007- Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2007-2008 & 2010-Visiting Professor, Center for Health Policy Research and Development, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan
2008-Investigator, Center for Health Policy Research and Development, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan
2011-Emeritus Professor, Monash University, Australia
2012-Honorary Professor, Deakin University, Australia
2013-2016 Director, Fuli Institute of Food Science and Nutrition, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
2016- Adjunct Professor, School of Allied Health, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University
2017- Distinguished Professor, China Medical University, Taiwan
2018-Honorary Professor of Qingdao University, China