Jean-Michel Oppert, MD, PhD, is Professor of Nutrition at Sorbonne University, Paris, France. For his clinical work, he is head of the Department of Nutrition at Pitié-Salpêtrière university hospital (AP-HP) which is focused on advanced care of patients with severe obesity.
His current research interests include the measurement of physical activity and sedentary behaviour in health and disease, the investigation of urban environmental determinants of physical activity and diet, and the study of behavioural and physiological changes associated with surgery-induced weight loss. He has been or is involved in a number of EU and national projects on these topics and is author or co-author of more than 270 papers on nutrition, physical activity and obesity.
JM Oppert is past president (2009-12) of the European Association for the Study of Obesity (EASO). In 2019-21, he acted as coordinator of the EASO Physical Activity Working Group which produced a series of reviews, meta-analyses and recommendations on the topic of exercise training in the management of overweight and obesity.