Current ENC members

Associate Professor Karam Kostner

Cardiologist
University of Queensland, Brisbane

Dr Karam Kostner is a clinical lipidologist and cardiologist. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Queensland, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, Australia. He is also an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Dr Kostner has published numerous clinical papers, review articles and book chapters. He serves in editorial review capacity for several distinguished journals and acts as an advisory board member for several multinational companies.

Dr Manny Noakes

Senior Research Dietitian
CSIRO Health Sciences and Nutrition, Adelaide

Dr Manny Noakes is a senior research dietitian at the clinical research unit of the CSIRO Division of Human Nutrition.

She is the leader of the research team that developed the Total Wellbeing Diet, which has now been turned into a best-selling book published by Penguin.

Dr Noakes worked as a clinical dietitian at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Flinders Medical Centre before joining the CSIRO in 1991 where she is currently a key member of CSIRO’s research team looking at diet, nutrition and health.

Dr Noakes is also Chair of National Heart Foundation of Australia Nutrition and Metabolism Advisory Committee and has authored over 80 scientific papers.

Ms Sharon Natoli

Accredited Practising Dietitian Founding Director,
Food and Nutrition Australia, Sydney

Sharon Natoli is an Accredited Practising Dietitian and Founding Director of Food & Nutrition Australia (FNA). FNA is one of Australia’s most professional and progressive nutrition clinics and consultancy, providing an independent and credentialed source of food and nutrition advice to consumers and clients.

Sharon has over sixteen years experience as a practising dietitian and is frequently called upon to present at conferences. As an experienced media commentator, Sharon regularly appears on national television and in leading magazines and newspapers. She writes a monthly column for Medical Observer and has co-written three nutrition books on healthy eating, weight loss and food facts.

Dr Tania Markovic

Endocrinologist, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney

Dr Tania Markovic is an endocrinologist at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney and a senior clinical lecturer at the University of Sydney. She is a member of the Metabolism and Obesity Research Group, which runs clinical trials at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, and has an attachment with the Metabolism and Obesity Services and the Diabetes in Pregnancy Clinic. She also runs a specialised obesity clinic in central Sydney and has a general endocrinology practice.

Dr Markovic has a particular interest in nutrition and obesity. Her research has focused on ways in which dietary interventions improve carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in type 2 diabetes mellitus. She is currently examining effects of dietary interventions on pregnancy outcomes in gestational diabetes mellitus.