From BMI to BCP: Body Composition Profiling with MRI for Metabolic Disease Management, Health Risks and Healthy Lifestyle Choice

Carla Prado, PhD, RD, Professor of Human Nutrition, University of Alberta, Canada

Dr. Carla Prado is a Professor at the University of Alberta in Canada and a Campus Alberta Innovate Program (CAIP) chair in nutrition, food and health. She is also the Director of the Human Nutrition Research Unit. She is an expert in assessing nutritional status through the precise measurement of body composition and energy metabolism.

The focus of her current research program is to develop targeted nutrition interventions for the prevention and treatment of low muscle mass in patients with cancer. She is currently the Principal Investigator for three clinical trials investigating the impact of nutrition intervention on body composition and health.

She is an editorial board member of Clinical Nutrition, the Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle and Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care.

Dr. Prado is a past recipient of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40, an award that celebrates exceptional young Canadian leaders of all sectors, and she was recently inducted into the Royal Society of Canada, the highest academic honor in her country.

Ian J. Neeland, MD, Director of Cardiovascular Prevention and Co-Director of the Center for Integrated and Novel Approaches in Vascular-Metabolic Disease, University Hospitals; Associate Professor of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University

Ian J. Neeland, MD, is Director of the University Hospitals Center for Cardiovascular Prevention, Director of the Translational Science Unit, and Co-Director of the Center for Integrated and Novel Approaches in Vascular-Metabolic Disease (CINEMA program) for University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute and Associate Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a General and Preventive Cardiologist with special expertise in obesity, diabetes and prevention of cardiovascular disease.

Dr. Neeland is a Fellow of the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology and serves on several national committees with the American Heart Association. He is an active Clinical and Translational Investigator with funding from the National Institutes of Health and industry. He has published over 110 scholarly articles and delivered a number of national, international and regionally invited lectures. He is a reviewer for many respected journals, including Circulation, for which he currently serves as an Associate Editor and Section Editor for Bridging Disciplines.

Mikael F. Forsgren, PhD, Senior Scientist, Liver Disease Lead Scientist, AMRA Medical

Mikael Forsgren is the Lead Scientist for liver diseases at AMRA Medical with the responsibility of developing and leading liver disease application projects. He has been involved in liver-related research using magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and spectroscopy since 2009 — both in academia and industry. He has a MSc in biotechnology and PhD in medical sciences. In his doctoral thesis he explored MR methods to replace the liver needle biopsy and quantify liver function. In addition to exploring body composition in liver diseases, he has applied his MR expertise to assess body composition in COPD, fibromyalgia syndrome and in general populations. Prior to joining AMRA in 2017 he worked as a consultant for Wolfram MathCore, where he collaborated with several pharma companies, academic institutions and the US Food and Drug Administration. He currently holds an adjunct position at Linköping University and is a member of the university’s Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization.