Tania Markovic

Tania Markovic is a Senior Staff Specialist at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and a clinical associate professor at the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney. She is a recognised expert in obesity with contributions including the co-writing of the Australian Obesity Management Algorithm and guidelines for the use of very low energy diets in people with diabetes and those with kidney disease. She is a member of the International Network for Research, Management & Education on adults with Prader-Willi Syndrome (INfoRMEd-PWS) and together with international collaborators is producing guidelines on the management of all aspects of care of adults with PWS. She obtained her MBBS Hons degree from the University of New South Wales, and specialised in endocrinology at St Vincent's Hospitals, Sydney. With an NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarship, she undertook PhD research at the Garvan Institute, investigating the effects of weight loss on carbohydrate and lipid metabolism in people with obesity and type 2 diabetes. After seminal publications in influential journals (Diabetes Care, Diabetologia), she joined Royal Prince Alfred Hospital where she is the director of the Metabolism & Obesity Services, a multidisciplinary tertiary referral weight management service. At the Charles Perkins Centre she leads the Clinical Trials Unit, which runs both researcher and sponsor-initiated clinical trials. Her main research interests relate to the nutritional management of type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes and gestational diabetes and the management of obesity in adolescents and adults, including those with psychiatric disorders, intellectual disability and PWS.