Michael E.J. (Mike) Lean MA, MB, BChir, MD (Cambridge), FRCP (Edinb), FRCPS (Glasgow), FRSE is the Professor of Human Nutrition at Glasgow University, based at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, where he is also a consultant physician with NHS responsibilities for an acute medical ward and emergency receiving duties. His primary training was in Medicine, also completing a Cambridge MA degree in History and Philosophy of Science. His medical undergraduate training was at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and postgraduate training mainly in Aberdeen and Cambridge. He received research training as an MRC Clinical Scientist for 4 years at the MRC and University of Cambridge Dunn Nutrition Laboratories, and on a Leverhulme Scholarship to the University of Colorado in Denver, in 2003. He has held Visiting and Adjunct Professorships at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen; the University of Otago, New Zealand (currently) and at University of Sydney, Australia (also currently). He has been a non-executive director of the Health Education Board of Scotland for 8 years, and chaired the Food Standards Agency Advisory Committee on Research. He was awarded the Rank Nutrition Lectureship by Diabetes UK in 2013; the Tenovus Medal in 2017 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2018. <https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/medicine/staff/mikelean/#/biography>
Mike Lean has passionate active interests in Scottish Traditional music (playing the fiddle at sessions and ceilidhs, and hosting House Concerts at his home), and in mountaineering, with climbing and ski-mountaineering experience in Scotland, rUK, Alps, Colorado Rockies, New Zealand and Himalayas. He is a member of the Alpine Club and The Arctic Club.