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Associate Professor Boyd Strauss

Associate Professor Boyd Strauss

Director of Clinical Nutrition Metabolism, Southern Health

Physician-in-Charge, Body Composition Laboratory, Monash Medical Centre

Qualifications: Ph D(Deakin) MB BS(Monash) FRACP

Boyd trained in medicine at Monash University. His physician training, which included stints in gastroenterology and endocrinology, made him the first physician trained in clinical nutrition in Australia. He completed a PhD in the Section of Human Nutrition at Deakin University, which involved an investigation of the nutritional effects of alcohol abuse on bleeding in the upper gastrointestinal tract. He then went for two years to the Dept. of Clinical Nutrition at Sahlgren’s Hospital, University of Gothenburg in Sweden, where he studied methods of measuring body composition with Bjorn Isaksson.

Upon his return, he spent three years lecturing in human nutrition at Deakin University, whilst he established the first body composition laboratory in an Australian hospital, at Prince Henry’s Hospital, in Melbourne. In 1989, he moved to Monash University, but left academic life to concentrate on his appointment as a physician in clinical nutrition and metabolism at the newly established Monash Medical Centre. In 1998, he became Director of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism at Monash Medical Centre, as well as Physician in General Medicine. In 2001, he returned to academic life as Associate Professor in Medicine at Monash University, and became head of the Nutrition and Dietetics discipline at Monash at the end of 2005. His main research interests involve the measurement of human body composition in health and disease, and his clinical interests involve obesity, hospital malnutrition, osteoporosis, diabetes mellitus and vascular risk factor management.

Publications 2002 - 2008

  1. Gillanders L, Angstmann K, Ball P, Chapman-Kiddell C, Hardy G, Hope J, Smith R, Strauss B, Russell D. “AuSPEN clinical practice guideline for home parenteral nutrition patients in Australia and New Zealand”. Nutrition. 2008 Aug 15.Epub
  2. Allan CA, Forbes EA, Strauss BJG, McLachlan RI “Testosterone Therapy Improves Selected Aspects of Sexual Function in Aging Men with Low-Normal Testosterone Levels and Symptoms of Androgen Deficiency.” Int J Impot Res. 2008 Jun 5. Epub
  3. Allan CA, Strauss BJG, Burger HG, Forbes EA, McLachlan RI.  “Testosterone Therapy Prevents Gain in Visceral Adipose Tissue and Loss of Skeletal Muscle in Ageing Men with Low-Normal Testosterone Levels and Symptoms of Androgen Deficiency.” J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab., Jan 2008; 93: 139 – 146
  4. Toussaint ND, Lau KK, Strauss BJ, Polkinghorne KR, Kerr PG “Associations between vascular calcification, arterial stiffness and bone mineral density in chronic kidney disease” Nephrol. Dial. Transplant., February 2008; 23: 586 – 593
  5. Dixon JB, Strauss BJ, Laurie C, O'Brien PE. “Changes in body composition with weight loss: obese subjects randomized to surgical and medical programs.” Obesity. 2007 May;15(5):1187-98
  6. Dixon JB, Strauss BJG, Laurie C & O'Brien PE “Smaller hip circumference associated dyslipidaemia and the metabolic syndrome in obese women.” Obesity Surg 2007 17:770-777
  7. Nydegger A, Strauss BJ, Heine R., Asmaningsih, Jones C., Bines JE “Body Composition of children with chronic and end stage renal failure” ePub July 20 J Paed Child Health 2007
  8. Allan CA, Strauss BJG, McLachlan RI “Body Composition, Metabolic Syndrome and Testosterone Therapy in Ageing Men.” Int J Impot Res. 2007 Sep-Oct;19(5):448-57
  9. Alvarez VP, Dixon JB, Strauss BJ, Laurie CP, Chaston TB and O'Brien PE “Single frequency bioelectrical impedance is a poor method for determining fat mass in moderately obese” Obes Surg. 2007 Feb;17(2):211-21.
  10. CA. Allan, BJ.G. Strauss, EA.Forbes, HG. Burger, RI. McLachlan: “The impact of overweight and obesity on total and free testosterone levels in ageing men” Med J Aust 2006 185: 424-427
  11. C. P.Gilfillan, B. J. Strauss, C. Rodda, D. Bowden, A-M Kean, M. Obaid, B. A. Crawford “A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of intravenous zoledronic acid in the treatment of thalassaemia-associated osteopaenia.” Calcif. Tissue Intl  2006 79(3):138-44
  12. Susan L. Colles, John B. Dixon, Paul  Marks, Boyd J Strauss, Paul E. O’Brien “Pre-operative Weight Loss with a Very-Low-Energy Diet: Quantitation of Changes in Liver and Abdominal Fat  by Serial Imaging” Am J Clin Nutr 2006 84:303-311
  13. Paul E. O'Brien, John B. Dixon , Cheryl Laurie, Stewart Skinner , Joe Proietto, John McNeil, Boyd J Strauss, Sharon Marks, Linda Schachter, Leon Chapman, Margaret Anderson “A Prospective Randomized Trial of Surgical and Non-Surgical Therapy for the Treatment of Obesity” Ann Intern Med 2006 144:625-633
  14. Kyoong A, Mol S, Guy P., Finlay P, Strauss BJ, Holmes P, Bardin P "Comparison of Australian and international guidelines for grading severity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease" Int Med J 2006 36:506-12
  15. Bass SL, Saxon L, Corral A-M, Rodda CP,  Strauss BJG, Reidpath D, Clarke C “Near-normalization of lumbar spine bone density in young women recovered from adolescent onset anorexia nervosa: a longitudinal study” J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab. 2005 Sep;18(9):897-907
  16. Wilcox G, BJG Strauss, DEM. Francis, H. Upton, A. Boneh: “Body composition in young adults with protein-IEM – a pilot study.” J Inherit Metab Dis (2005) 28:613-626
  17. Swinburn BA, Carey D, Hills AP, Hooper M, Marks S, Proietto J, Strauss BJ, Sullivan D, Welborn T “Effect of orlistat on cardiovascular disease  risk in obese adults: a multicentre, double blind, placebo controlled, parallel group study” Diabetes Obes Metab. 2005 May;7(3):254-62
  18. Cicuttini FM, Teichtahl AJ, Wluka AE, Davis SR, Strauss BJG, Ebeling PR: “The relationship between body composition and knee cartilage volume in healthy, middle-aged subjects.” Arthritis Rheum. 2005 52(2):461-467
  19. Z Wang, D Stroud, S B Heymsfield, and BJG Strauss:  “Potassium-Related Total Body Protein and Body Cell Mass Models: Cross Validation Studies in Patients with Chronic Diseases” Int J Body Comp Res 2004 2 (4): 133-139
  20. McCarthy E.A., Strauss B.J.G., Walker S.P. Permezel M. “Determination of maternal body composition in pregnancy and its relevance to perinatal outcomes.” Obstet Gynecol Surv. 2004 Oct;59(10):731-742.
  21. Griffiths AL, Sim D, Strauss B, Rodda C, Armstrong D, Freezer N. “Effect of high-dose fluticasone propionate on bone density and metabolism in children with asthma” Pediatr Pulmonol. 2004 Feb;37(2):116-21.
  22. Flavia Cicuttini, Anita Wluka, Susan Davis, Boyd Strauss, Stella Yeung, Peter R Ebeling “Association between knee cartilage volume and bone mineral density in older adults” Rheumatology 2004 43:765-69
  23. Wattanapenpaiboon N, Lukito W, Wahlqvist ML, Strauss BJ. “Dietary carotenoid intake as a predictor of bone mineral density”.Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2003 Dec;12(4):467-473.
  24. Strauss B.J.G., Marks SJ, Growcott JP, Stroud DB, Lo CS, Dixon JB, O'Brien PE “Body composition changes following laparoscopic gastric banding for morbid obesity.” Acta Diabetol. 2003 Oct;40 Suppl 1:S266-9.