Meet Our Founding & Advisory Board Members

Josephine Barbarino Keto activist

Germany
Founder & CEO of the Keto Live Project           

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Prof Dr Thomas N. Seyfried 

United States of America
Boston College Department of Biology Research in epilepsy, neurodegenerative lipid storage diseases, cancer, The metabolic therapies include caloric restriction, fasting & ketogenic diets, 

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Dr Georgia Ede 

United States of America
Board-certified psychiatrist specialized in nutritional & metabolic psychiatry, Nutrition Writer 
diagnosis: diet

PROF. Dr Benjamin Bikman  

United States of America
Associate Professor, Department of Physiology Developmental Biology Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 

Dr John Schoonbee      

South Africa, Switzerland

Global Chief Medical Officer Life & Health Products, 
Swiss Re

Ivor Cummins BE(Chem) CEng MIEI PMP, 

Ireland

The Fat Emperor

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 Dr Lucia Aronica

Italy, United States of America
Department of Medicine, Stanford University 
Lecturer Epigenetics, Nutrigenomics and Personalized Nutrition 
Leading real-world-clinical trials for biomarker-driven personalized lifestyle medicine. 

DR Wafaa Abdel-Hadi

Egypt
Dr Wafaa Abdel-Hadi  

Clinical Oncologist & Functional Medicine Doctor

Founder of AWARE clinic

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Patricia Daly, BA Hons, dipNT, BANT, CNHC Nutrition Therapist  

Switzerland, Ireland
Personalized Ketogenic Metabolic Therapies,           

Prof Dr Dominic D’Agostino

United States of America
University of South Florida, Associate Professor

Research Scientist, Inst. Human and Machine Cognition
Associate Professor, College of Medicine Molecular Pharmacology & Physiology

Dr Jean-Pierre Spinosa  

Italy, Switzerland
Gynaecology, Urogynecology, Gynaecological Surgery, Oncological Gynaecology
Research

Dr Tomás Duraj 

 Spain, United States
MD, PhD, Postdoc. Researcher at Prof Dr Thomas Seyfried´s  laboratory at Boston College, developing metabolic therapies for cancer management 

Dr Jennifer Unwin

United Kingdom
Clinical Health Psychologist
BSc, MSc, DPsy, FBPsS 

specialised in chronic Disease, Food Addiction and Eating Disorders Research
Founder and Author of "Fork in the Road"

Nicole Laurent

United States of America
Licensed Mental Health Counsellor (LMHC) Current focus of practice integrates the use of nutritional therapies (ketogenic diet) for mental illness and neurological disorders with traditional
psychotherapies.

Dr Peter Voshol 

Netherlands
Researcher Health & Nutrition at The Louis Bolk Instituut,  Cofounder of "Fooding Leeft" & "Keer Diabetes 2 Om", a new Healthcare Model to manage chronic NCDs


Dr David Unwin

United Kingdom
David Unwin, Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners (FRCGP), at Norwood Surgery. Famous Specialist in drug-free Type 2 Diabetes Remission for more than 125 patients!  

Prof DR CIRHUZa CIKOMOLA 

Democratic Republic of Congo

Dr Cikomola (MD, PhD) is an endocrinologist at the Catholic University of Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he is also dean of the Faculty of Medicine. 

Dr Gary Fettke

Tasmania, Australia
Orthopaedic Surgeon, preventative medicine
American Society for Nutrition

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Dr IAN Lake 

United Kingdom
General Practitioner,  
Type 1 Diabetes  & Co-Founder of the PHC Inventor and author of 
Type 1 Keto.com a training Program for Medical Professionals on the medical sound management of T1D 

Dr Mariella Glandt

Israel
Mariela Glandt, MD, is a Harvard & Columbia trained endocrinologist with more than 20 years experience in treating metabolic disease.  Director of the Glandt Center for Diabetes Care, Tel Aviv 

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Dr David CAVAN 

United Kingdom
Consultant Endocrinologist Specializing in Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes. Diabetes Prevention, management and Remission, 

Prof Dr Adrian Soto-Mota

Mexico

MD (UNAM), PhD (Oxford) & Specialist in Internal Medicine (INCMNSZ) & Data Science (HarvardX) Focused on Human Metabolism & Evidence-Based Medicine Mexico City Hospital 

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Dr Nicholas G. Norwitz

United States of America
PhD at Oxford University, Metabolic Health Practitioner, Harvard Medical School


Prof Dr Marcus Säemann

Austria
Specialist in Internal Medicine,
Nephrology & Intensive Care Medicine, Immunology, Type 1 Diabetes

Prof Dr Johannes Kovarik

Austria

Specialist in Internal Medicine,
Nephrology and Corona Research at Teaching Centre Medical University, Vienna

Prof Dr Thomas Weimbs 

United States of America

Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Barbara 
Research on Ketosis as a therapy for polycystic kidney disease (PKD)

Founder and President of Santa Barbara Nutrients, Inc.


Jessianna Saville MS, RDN, CSR, LD, CLT 

United States of America
Board Certified Specialist in Renal Nutrition (CSR) by the Commission on Dietetic Registration, 5/2019-Present

Certified Lifestyle Eating and Performance Therapist (CLT)

Functional Nutrition Academy Graduate. Founder of the Kidney RD, a collective group of expert renal dietitians

Prof Dr. Roman Ulrich Müller

Germany

Principal Investigator,
Research Group Leader - Kidney Research Center Cologne and Senior Physician, Department II of Internal Medicine, University Hospital of Cologne


Dr Ignacio Cuaranta

Argentine

Board Certified Psychiatrist treating 
his patients with Metabolic & Ketogenic Therapies, like fasting, time restricted eating, stress and sleep management and personalized nutrition.

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Dr Ana Iacob 

Rumania,  Switzerland
Psychiatrist, Valais Hospital 
Nutritional psychiatry

Dr Christopher Palmer

United States of America
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Director of the Department of Postgraduate & Continuing Education at McLean Hospital 

Dr Iain Campbell

United Kingdom
PhD, Bipolar Research University of Edinburgh

Beth Zupec Kania RDN, CD, 

United States of America
Dietitian & Nutritionist specialized in Ketogenic Metabolic Therapies 


Dr Zvonko Mir

Croatia, Switzerland,
Psychiatrist & Psychologist
Medical Trainer in Neurology,
Rehabilitation Medicine & Physical Medicine


Dr Elena Gross 

Germany,  Switzerland
Founder & CEO of Keto Swiss
M.Sc. in Neuroscience at Oxford University and PhD in clinical research at the University of Basel

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The Charlie Foundation

United States of America
Jim & Nancy Abrahams saved not only the life of son Charlie but the KMT for all of us!
Their charliefoundation.org
"is an organization that has worked selflessly and effectively in the broader field of nutrition to benefit humanity.” 
The American College of Nutrition’s Humanitarian Award

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Sybille Bellamy Kraft 

France
President & Founder of Keto/M+  and Connections Cétogènes
Sybille Bellamy Kraft is a founding and Advisory Board Member of the EKLC since 2019
 


MICHEL LUNDELL

Sweden   
Founder & CEO of Ketonix


Prof Dr IR Frédéric Leroy 

Belgium
VUB - Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Faculty of Sciences and Bio-engineering Sciences Research Group of Industrial Microbiology and Food Biotechnology

Dr Jürg Kuoni

Switzerland
General Internal Medicine Specialist in Preventative & Sports Medicine, Founder of Healthceck & Heartcheck CH
President of "SAKMT - the Swiss Association for Ketogenic Metabolic Therapies" Initiated and cofounded by the European Keto Live Centre.

Dr Dipl biol Bernd-Michael Löffler 

Germany
Founder, CEO, Scientific Director of the Institute for Mitochondrial Medicine Berlin


Dorian Greenow & Gemma Kochis 

United States of America
Founders & CEO's of Keto-Mojo and the Ketogenic Foundation. Initiating Founding and Donating Advisory Board Members of the European Keto Live Centre 2019
Since 2021 our Technical and Digital Innovation Partners to "The Metabolic Health Pilot - Connecting the Sciences"

Dr SOFIA DELOUDI 

Switzerland
PhD at ETH Zürich 
Senior Product Manager at Sensirion AG 
Founding Member of "SAKMT -the Swiss Association of Ketogenic Metabolic Therapies"
Author of  "Food For Health: Nutrition Principles For Optimal Metabolism" A coffee-table book on nutrition and physiology

Nutrition Network

South Africa
The Nutrition Network is an education, connection and learning platform founded by The Noakes Foundation

DR Tatiana Zarubina

Russia, Switzerland
Humanities, Philosophy  
IPS - Intangible Property Global Solutions, Lausanne

Olivia Reyl

Switzerland

Together with her father, her brothers their FCO private office SA became Sponsoring Investors & Cofounders of Keto Live GmbH

Dr Thomas Kantenwein

Germany
Foundation, Charities & Tax Law


Medical consultation and management of the conferences

Prof Dr Markus Stoffel 

Germany
Internal Medicine, Nephrology & Preventative Medicine

Dr Suzan Oruc 

Germany
Urology & Sexual Medicine, 
Keto Live Project e.V.

Stephan Barbarino 

Germany
Author, Theatre Director, Organization of the Conference &  Keto Live Project e.V.

Elise Rensch 

Switzerland
Organization, Pilates Instructor, 
Propilates Zürich

Matthias Hochwimmer & Lisa Oehring

Germany
CCET GmbH, Video Recording, Design, Voice over & Digital Post-production 

Robert Lenzbauer

Austria
Sound Design & Video, Technical Support & Organization

The 1st International Keto Live Conference in Bergün 2019

The founding Conference of our European Keto Live Centre

Meet the Speakers of our first International Keto Live Conference 2019

From left to right standing
Dr John Schoonbee, Michel Lundell, Prof Jürg Spitz, Josephine Barbarino, Sybille Bellamy Kraft, Prof Dr Thomas N. Seyfried, 
Dr Jean-Pierre Spinosa, Prof Dr Helene von Bibra,
Dr Georgia Ede and Dominique Kemp

From left to right kneeling
Ivor Cummins, Julia Tulipan, Ulrike Gonder, Dr Ian Lake
Elise Rensch, Dorian Geenow, and Patricia Daly
still missing  Dr Amy McKenzie and Dr Aseem Malhotra

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Monday  Day OnE - Welcome opening lecture by Dr John Schoonbee 

"We have to Rethink"

Impressions from our founding Conference captured by Enid Valu

Speakers Dinner - delicious  traditional Swiss Raclette  from the alps of Bergün kindly sponsored by the Hotel Kurhaus

Day Two - Dr Jean-Pierre Spinosa just presented our idea of the European Keto Live Centre, We had the pleasure to listen to the panel with (left to right)
Dr Jean-Pierre Spinosa, Prof Dr Helene von Bibra,  Dr John Schoonbee, Dr Georgia Ede and Prof Dr Thomas N. Seyfried discussing  
“Pure, White and Deadly - Prof Dr John Yudkin - or what happened to Science and Guidelines"

One of our Workshop's called - “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration” - covered the findings of Weston Price in Switzerland with an Exhibition at the museum of Bergün and a guided tour of the village explaining Bergün´s historic connection to sugar...

Dr Elena Gross, fasciated by Domini Kemp's cooking skills at our  Workshop No 2 cooking with the authors of the "Ketogenic Kitchen" Domini Kemp & Patricia Daly                                        followed by  a Dinner in the historic kitchen of the Kurhaus

Delicious Artichoke Ketogenic-Kitchen Pizza with a base of minced Lamb Meat

Dr Elena Gross tasting the Cracking Crackers

Dr Jean-Pierre Spinosa presenting our Idea of an Education Centre for Nutrition and Ketogenic Metabolic Therapies. Founded by 32 Founding Members in Bergün already uniting Scientists, specialists and Doctors from Germany. Switzerland, Austria, France, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, the Lebanon, South Africa, Denmark, Sweden and Ireland, Registered in Burghausen Germany as 
The European Keto Live Centre 
Information & Training Centre  - Association for Ketogenic Metabolic Therapies

Our Venue - The Beautiful Hotel Kurhaus Bergün

             Meeting & Connecting with The Speakers Like Dr Ian Lake                      The Great Benefits of Live Conferences

IvoR Cummins, Stephan & Josephine Barbarino

Evening of day one - Get Together 

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