Matti Uusitupa#


Matti Uusitupa
Membership Number:6316
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE
Elected:2022
Main Country of Residence:FINLAND




Present and Previous Positions
  • 2014 Professor Emeritus, University of Eastern Finland
  • 1973 - 1976 General Practitioner and Chief Physician, Sisä-Savo Health Center
  • 1976 - 1980 House Officer in Internal Medicine, Kuopio University Central Hospital
  • 1980 - 1984 Senior Lecturer of Internal Medicine, University of Kuopio
  • 1984 - 1987 Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Kuopio
  • 1989 - 1997 Professor of Clinical Nutrition, University of Kuopio
  • 1995 - 1997 Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Kuopio
  • 1998 - 2001 Chief Medical Director, Kuopio University Hospital
  • 1998 - 2001 Part Time Professor of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, University of Kuopio
  • 2001 - 2009 Rector, University of Kuopio
  • 2010 - 2014 Professor of Nutrigenomics and Nutrigenetics, University of Eastern Finland

Fields of Scholarship
  • Dietary factors and weight changes in regulation of gene expression in adipose tissue and blood
  • Prevention of type 2 diabetes by changing lifestyles
  • Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular and other diabetic late complications
  • Health effects of dietary fibre
  • Genetics of type 2 diabetes, and gene diet interactions in regulation of lipid and glucose metabolism
  • Metabolomic and biomarker studies in relation to dietary interventions and cohort studies
  • Health effects of dietary fatty acids

Honours and Awards
  • 2020 Honorary Chairman of the Finnish Heart Association
  • 2015 Pohjola and Suomi Prize in Medicine for lifelong Promotion of the Health of Finnish population
  • 2010 Honorary doctor, Petrozavodsk State University 2010
  • 2010 - 2015 Chairman of the Board of the Finnish Heart Association
  • 2009 Juho Vainio Foundation: Lifetime Recognition Award for Services Promoting the Health of the Finnish
  • Population
  • 2005 Member of Finnish Academy of Science and Letters

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