Dr Robert A Buist

Robert has an honours degree in Biochemistry and a PhD in Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology as well as degrees in chiropractic and naturopathic medicine.

After 8 years in Asthma and Cardiovascular drug research at Macquarie University and later as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at New York State Health Department, he switched his research focus to the newly emerging field of Nutritional Biochemistry and Complementary Medicine and is presently acknowledged as one of the founders of Nutritional Medicine in Australia.

For 22 years Robert was also Editor-in-Chief of the international quarterly journal Clinical Nutrition Review.