Prof Louise Baur

Louise Alison BAUR AM, MBBS, BSc(Med), PhD, FRACP, FAHMS

Louise Baur holds the Chair of Child & Adolescent Health at the University of Sydney. She is also a consultant paediatrician at the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network where she is an active member – and former Head - of Weight Management Services, a multidisciplinary clinical service for children and adolescents affected by moderate to severe obesity.

Louise Baur has made research contributions to the management of obesity and related disorders in a variety of clinical settings; the complications of obesity; the prevention of obesity, especially in early childhood; and the responses of health systems to obesity.

Louise is President-Elect of the World Obesity Federation and is a Founding Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health & Medical Sciences. In 2010 Louise was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for service to medicine and to the community.