Dr. Luis Vitetta, Professor-The University of Sydney
Luis Vitetta is currently Professor at the University of Sydney, in the Faculty of Medicine and Health and previously was the Director of Medical Research for the Medlab Group in Sydney.
Luis Vitetta is an Honours Graduate from Monash University (1981) in the Department of Biochemistry – Faculty of Medicine, and a PhD Graduate from the University of Melbourne and Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Surgery (1985) where he studied the epidemiological and aetiological factors of biliary disease. He has also studied medicine at the National University of La Plata Medical School in his native Argentina.
Professor Vitetta has research interests in nutrition, functional foods and immune function, as well as Mind Body Medicine and has an extensive expertise with the conduct of clinical trials. He was the first internationally funded Australian researcher investigating Chinese Herbal Medicines in a trial with HIV patients. He is often an invited speaker at numerous local and international conferences.