Professor Timothy (Tim) Ackland (Australia)

Professor Tim Ackland is a Level 4 anthropmetrist and is Professor of functional anatomy and biomechanics within the School of Sport Science, Exercise & Health, at the University of Western Australia. He has research interests in the mechanics of human movement with themes spanning exercise rehabilitation, high performance sport and human performance in industry. Tim has published over 85 peer-reviewed papers as well as four academic books and 25 book chapters. He recently served as a Director of Sports Medicine Australia and is on the review boards of four international journals. Tim also chaired the Scientific Program Committee for the 5th IOC World Congress on Sport Sciences for the 2000 Olympics, and was Conference Co-chair for Sports Medicine Australia in Perth, 2001. Tim was a lead researcher in the Kinanthropometry in Aquatic Sports (KASP) project in Perth 1991, and the Sydney 2000 rowing and kayaking anthropometry project. Tim has run ISAK accreditation courses at UWA, Curtin University, the University of Auckland, Singapore Sports Council, and AUT University.

Dr Anup Adkikari (India)

Dr Anup Adhikari is a Level 3 anthropmetrist based at D.Gupta Lane Sinthee Kolkata, India. Anup has run several ISAK courses for Sports Authority of India, West Bengal State Council of Sports, Alagappa University, Jadavpur University, and University of Kalyani.

Dr Jose Arcodia (Argentina)

Jose Arcodia (Licenciado ó Lic.) is a Level 3 anthropmetrist based in Argentina. Jose has run several ISAK anthropmetry courses for Fisiosport, Escuelas Amici, Universidad del Aconcagua, Medlcas de la Universidad del Aconcagua, Universidad Nacional de Tucuman and Instituto Superior de Educación Fisica.

Professor J.E. Lindsay Carter (USA)

Professor J.E. Lindsay Carter is Emirates Professor at the School of Exercise and Nutritional Sciences, San Diego State University, San Diego. Lindsay is a ISAK Level 4 anthropmetrist, and also the founder of the ISAK photoscopic anthropometry accreditation. Lindsay is the world authority on somatotype.  He helped create and is largely responsible for causing an excitement and irresistibility in kinanthropometry for a whole generation of human biologists and health professionals.  Lindsay is well known and respected as a scientist,  writer, lecturer, and conductor of certification courses in kinanthropometry. Lindsay was selected by Phillip Smithells as the best representation of scientific talent for the emergence of physical education in New Zealand and was nominated as a Fullbright scholar for study in the United States. He was a student of Charles McCloy, Howard Meredith, and other scholars.  At San Diego State University he initiated a US Office of Education Anthropometric Research Training Project that was very influential in melding ideas and inspiration from Albert Behnke, Barbara Honeyman Heath Roll, physicists and mathematicians to provide an awareness of the role of anthropometry as the epistemological basis for human biology and the health professions.  In matters of exercise management he was a co-worker with Fred Kasch who has a genius for conducting individually appropriate exercise in groups and monitoring training efficiency. Because of his habitual rigor in measurement and ability to assess complex data assemblies, he has been a prime mover in data assembly, resolution and report on Olympic and world class athletes. Lindsay helped initiate the evolution of kinanthropometry as the quantitative interface between human structure and function.  He was a prime mover in an International Working Group of an A-level UNESCO committee that was disbanded in 1986 to become the International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry (ISAK).  He is responsible for much of the initiative and inspiration for precise and accurate anthropometry and for the popularity of international certification courses with the outreach to young computer oriented human biologists and health professionals. Lindsay has supported the development of anthropmetrists in Auckland, and in particular the AUT University wished to acknowledge this support with the naming of their laboratory as the J.E. Lindsay Carter Anthropmetry Laboratry. Lindsay continues to provide guidance and serves as a role model in the international anthropmetry community.

Professor Hans de Ridder (South Africa)

Prof. J. Hans de Ridder is a Level 4 anthropmetrist and is Secretary-General of ISAK. Hans is based at the School of Biokinetics, Recreation and Sport Science, North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), Potchefstroom, South Africa. Hans has run ISAK accreditation courses at University of the Free State (Bloemfontein) and Tshwane University of Technology (Pretoria).

Dr Shahram Faradjzadeh (Iran)

Dr Shahram Faradjzadeh Mevaloo is a Level 3 anthropometrist and has run more than 30 ISAK accreditation courses including those at Tehran University, Shahid Beheshti University, Isfahan Sport Medicine Board (Isfahan), National Olympic and Paralympic Academy (Tehran), and Saveh Islamic Azad University (Saveh). Shahram is a medical doctor and sport nutritionist, and is currently the president of the Anthropometry Department of the National Olympic and Paralympic Academy of Iran. He is the head of the Talent Identification and Development Committee of I.R. Iran Swimming Federation. Dr Mevaloo is the scientific manager of the anthropometry section of the National Planning for Elite Sport Project. He has published anthropometry articles for wrestling, judo, soccer and swimming. Shahram and his team in the Anthropometry Department of NOPA regularly measures Iran's top athletes especially before main sport events such as Olympic and Asian Games. Shahram currently has been consultant professor for some students working on anthropometry, and sport nutrition.

Francis Holway (Argentina)

Francis Holway is a Level 4 anthropmetrist based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Francis measures all athletes at the River Plate Club (23 sports, -1000 athletes). Francis is on the ISAK Executive and is an active ISAK course deliverer. Francis speaks several languages including English and Spanish so is a highly sought after participant on both courses and international anthropmetry research projects.

Professor Patria Hume (New Zealand)

Prof. Patria Anne Hume is a Level 4 anthropmetrist, is an ISAK Executive Council member and is the ISAK web master. Patria is a sports injury biomechanist and is Director of the Institute of Sport and Recreation Research New Zealand, and also Director of the J.E. Lindsay Carter Anthropometry Laboratory in Auckland. Patria has published anthropometry articles for golf, powerlifting, rowing, netball, soccer and gymnastics. As part of the J.E. Lindsay Carter Anthropometry team Patria regulary measures New Zealand's top athletes. Patria currently has 15 PhD students working on anthropometry, biomechanics and injury epidemiology projects.

Dr Masaharu Kagawa (Japan)

Masaharu Kagawa is a Level 3 anthropmetrist and has run ISAK accreditation courses at the National Institute of Health and Nutrition and Tohto International College of Business (Koriyama).

Dr Sang-Jo Kang (Korea)

Dr Sang-Jo Kang is an ISAK Executive Council member. Sang-Jo has run ISAK accreditation courses at the Korea National Sport University and the Kookmin University (Seoul, South Korea).

Associate Professor Deborah Kerr (Australia)

Associate Professor Deborah (Deb) Kerr is a Level 4 anthropmetrist and a nutritionist. Deb works at the School of Public Health at Curtin University of Technology in Perth. Deb was a lead researcher in the Sydney 2000 rowing and kayaking anthropometry project.

Dr João Magniis (Brazil)

Dr João Ricardo Turra Magniis a Level 2 anthropmetrist and a Physician with specializing in sports medicine. João has worked with anthropometry since 1973. João he studied at Penn State University in 1975. João built the first hydrostatic under water weighing system in 1979 but as he didn't have a gas analizer he proposed an alternative system based on gas changes which has now resulted in the Bod Pod. In 1979 it was very dificult and very expensive to import and buy calipers in Brazil so João started to build some. João has worked in many sports in Brazil in the last 30 years. João was president of the Brazilian Society of Sports Medicine in 1995 and is now its Financial Director. In 2006 João started his level 1 certification with Miguel Salas in Chile and last year did his level 2 with Francis Holway in Zaragoza. In March 2008 Francis Holway helped João run the first level 1 certification in the UNISINOS University which is a Jesuit university and has more than 25,000 students. João is planning a new ISAK course in for October 2008 together with a Kinanthropometry meeting.

Professor Michael Marfell-Jones (New Zealand)

Professor Michael  (Mike) Marfell-Jones is a Level 4 anthropometrist, is the current ISAK President and also Chair of the Standards and Accreditation Working Group. Mike works at the Universal College of Learning in Palmerston North, New Zealand. As well as running courses and measuring elite athletes, both throughout New Zealand and internationally on a regular basis, Mike is well known for his authorship of journal articles on anthropometry and editorship of anthropometric texts, in particular the ISAK Manual.  As well as his ISAK duties, Mike is Chair of Sport and Exercise Science New Zealand, the professional organisation for New Zealand’s sport scientists.

Professor William (Bill) D. Ross (Canada)

Dr. William (Bill) D. Ross was formerly a Professor at Simon Fraser University. Bill was a post doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Child Health, London.  He was given an award for Distinguished Service by the British Columbia Recreation Association for leadership in working with health, fitness and lifestyle enhancement professionals. In 1988 he was the first Canadian awarded the internationally prestigious Philip Noel Baker Research Prize for new models and approaches for the study of human proportionality, dimensionality and body composition and for his leadership in  Kinanthropometry. In 1992 Magyar Testnevelési Egyetem (now Semmelweise University in Hungary) awarded him an honorary doctorate for his international scientific leadership. Bill served ISAK as Chairman of its International Working Group on Scholarship, Awards and Curriculum until 1999. Bill is currently the Scientific Director for Rosscraft Innovations Incorporated, a multifaceted technology transfer company manufacturing and marketing instruments, and teaching materials.  Bill has numerous publications including a DVD movie on anthropometry technique which is used in ISAK courses (RV Carr and WD Ross, 2006, Anthropomery Technique).

Kelly Sheerin (New Zealand)

Kelly Sheerin is a Level 3 anthropmetrist and a physiotherapist and sport scientist. Kelly works as Research Officer for the Institute of Sport and Recreation Research New Zealand at AUT University in Auckland. Kelly is a lead provider of anthropometry servies in the J.E. Lindsay Carter Anthropometry Laboratory. Kelly was a member of the Sydney 2000 rowing and kayaking anthropometry project. Kelly has conducted a research project with Patria Hume, Simon Pearson and Geoff Juranovich on the evaluation of hydration effects on body composition by ISAK profile and bioelectrical impedance analysis for Emirates Team New Zealand sailors.

Dr Gary Slater (Australia)

Dr Gary Slater is a Level 3 anthropmetrist and a nutritionist based in Canberra at the Australian Institute of Sport. Gary has run ISAK courses and measures anthropometry for AIS based athletes.

Dr Arthur Stewart (Scotland)

Dr Arthur Stewart is a Level 4 anthropmetrist is an ISAK Executive Council member. Arthur has run ISAK accreditation courses at the Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen and at the Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University.

Assistant Professor Pat Wong (Singapore)

Asst Prof Pat Wong is a Level 3 anthropmetrist based at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Pat is coordinating the "Kinanthropometry and Youth Sports" symposium which is part of the International Conferenece in Physical Education and Sports Science (ICPESS 2010) associated with the Youth Olympics Games in 2010 in Singapore. Pat has run several ISAK anthropmetry courses.