Healthier Weight Centre

Trio has partnered with Healthier Weight Centre to offer you professional weight management advice and programmes. Our staff has personal first-hand experience with their programmes and know that they work.

“Healthier Weight Centres are exclusively devoted to the management of overweight and obese patients. No other healthcare organisation in Europe provides such a comprehensive range of obesity surgery and weight loss programmes.”

-Dr David Ashton, Medical Director.

About Healthier Weight Centre

Dr David Ashton BSc, MD, PhD
Medical Director

David Ashton is Honorary Senior Lecturer in Clinical Epidemiology at Imperial College School of Medicine. After graduating with a medical sciences degree from the University of St Andrews, Dr Ashton underwent clinical and postgraduate training at the Victoria University of Manchester where he achieved several academic distinctions. He subsequently completed a doctorate in epidemiology and biostatistics at Imperial College School of Medicine, London, where he now holds a senior academic appointment in the Cardiac Medicine Group. His research interests include the metabolic aspects of obesity, the relationship between physical activity and cardiovascular diseases and the development and application of screening algorithms for cancer and coronary heart disease. Dr Ashton has wide experience of cardiovascular assessment, including exercise electrocardiography, measurement of aerobic capacity, cardiac rehabilitation and exercise prescription. Dr Ashton’s current interest is in the role of physical activity in the treatment of obesity and its co-morbidities.

He has written guidelines on physical activity for the World Health Organisation and is contributing editor to the Journal of Physical Activity and Health.

David Ashton is the author of numerous articles, scientific papers and book chapters. He is the co-author of “Why Exercise ?” (Blackwell 1986) and author of “The Healthy Heart Handbook for Women” (Random House 2000). He is a regular contributor to national and international scientific conferences, has made numerous television and radio appearances and frequently lectures on a wide variety of medical topics to both medical and lay audiences. His latest publication on Food Advertising and Childhood Obesity, was published in the Royal Society of Medicine and the Guardian newspaper. The full text for the Guardian article can be found here.

Dr Ashton’s interests outside medicine include the philosophy of science, cycling and – of course – walking!

Chrissie Twigg BA, MBA
Managing Director

Chrissie graduated in history from Bedford College, London University and worked at the House of Commons, Reuters and Pan Books before receiving an ESRC award to study for an MBA at Warwick University. She then worked for two years as an investment analyst in the City before moving to Birmingham. For eight years Chrissie worked for BMI Healthcare as Business Development Manager at The Priory Hospital before joining the Healthier Weight Centre as Managing Director.

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