Medical director
LighterLife’s medical director is Professor Iain Broom, Professor
of Clinical Biochemistry at Robert Gordon University and Professor
of Metabolic Medicine at the University of Aberdeen. Until his
recent retirement from the NHS, Professor Broom was deputy director
of the surgical nutrition and metabolism unit in the department of
surgery and clinical biochemistry at Grampian University Hospitals
NHS Trust.
Professor Broom holds a professorial research fellowship with
the Rowett Research Institute, and is chair of the Counterweight
Programme – an obesity-management programme available across
the UK to upskill primary-care staff and promote evidence-based
obesity management. He is also director of the Centre for Obesity
Research & Epidemiology at Robert Gordon University.