Matti Uusitupa#
| Membership Number: | 6316 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 Professor Emeritus, University of Eastern Finland
- 1973 - 1976 General Practitioner and Chief Physician, Sisä-Savo Health Center
- 1976 - 1980 House Officer in Internal Medicine, Kuopio University Central Hospital
- 1980 - 1984 Senior Lecturer of Internal Medicine, University of Kuopio
- 1984 - 1987 Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Kuopio
- 1989 - 1997 Professor of Clinical Nutrition, University of Kuopio
- 1995 - 1997 Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Kuopio
- 1998 - 2001 Chief Medical Director, Kuopio University Hospital
- 1998 - 2001 Part Time Professor of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, University of Kuopio
- 2001 - 2009 Rector, University of Kuopio
- 2010 - 2014 Professor of Nutrigenomics and Nutrigenetics, University of Eastern Finland
Fields of Scholarship
- Dietary factors and weight changes in regulation of gene expression in adipose tissue and blood
- Prevention of type 2 diabetes by changing lifestyles
- Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular and other diabetic late complications
- Health effects of dietary fibre
- Genetics of type 2 diabetes, and gene diet interactions in regulation of lipid and glucose metabolism
- Metabolomic and biomarker studies in relation to dietary interventions and cohort studies
- Health effects of dietary fatty acids
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Honorary Chairman of the Finnish Heart Association
- 2015 Pohjola and Suomi Prize in Medicine for lifelong Promotion of the Health of Finnish population
- 2010 Honorary doctor, Petrozavodsk State University 2010
- 2010 - 2015 Chairman of the Board of the Finnish Heart Association
- 2009 Juho Vainio Foundation: Lifetime Recognition Award for Services Promoting the Health of the Finnish
- Population
- 2005 Member of Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
