Dr. Maximilian de Courten professional education started in Switzerland where he obtained his medical degree at University of Basel in 1990 and undertook clinical research in the area of hypertension and insulin resistance. Later in the United States he obtained a MPH from the University of Arizona while working at the National Institutes of Health in Phoenix on the epidemiology of diabetes with the Pima Indians.

His international experience was enhanced through positions held at the World Health Organization as scientist (at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, his home country) and as Medical Officer in Fiji for WHO South Pacific. His role there was to coordinate non-communicable disease prevention and control programs across 22 island nations.

Dr. de Courten is currently Associate Professor at MONASH University in Melbourne.

For more information on Dr. Maximilian de Courten and his work please visit: http://www.med.monash.edu.au/epidemiology/people/academic/decourten.html