Nutrition & Dietetics research

The Nutrition department provides acute and chronic disease management services across a range of clinical areas. We study the impact of disease and the outcome of disease treatment on nutritional status, body composition and energy expenditure to guide nutritional assessment and management practices. 

Current areas of research include the critically ill, respiratory medicine such as cystic fibrosis (CF), stem cell transplant and surgical oncology.

We also investigate novel dietary interventions for disease, such as looking at the effect of the Mediterranean diet on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease led by Dr Audrey Tierney and PhD student Elena Papamiltiadous.

Achievements

  • Madeleine Neff won the 2015 Henrietta Law Memorial Prize for Allied Health for her poster presentation on ethnicity and gestational diabetes at Alfred Health Week.
  • Dr Susannah King, Sarah Fagan, Emily Dynon, Associate Professor Ibolya Nyulasi, together with haematologist Dr Sharon Avery were awarded an Australasian Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition grant to research energy expenditure and body composition in SCT in 2016. 

Postgraduate students

4 PhD students
2 Masters students

Nutrition in the ICU

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Pregnancy and nutrition

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Nutrition in respiratory conditions

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Nutrition and stem cell transplantation

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Impact of surgery for gastric carcinoma

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Publications

Modified low ratio ketogenic therapy in the treatment of adults with super-refractory status epilepticus

Kaul N, Nation J, Laing J, Nicolo JP, Deane AM, Udy AA, Kwan P, O'Brien TJ

(2022), JPEN-PARENTER ENTER, 46(8), 1819-27

DOI: 10.1002/jpen.2373

Protocol summary and statistical analysis plan for Intensive Nutrition Therapy comparEd to usual care iN criTically ill adults (INTENT): a phase II randomised controlled trial

Ridley EJ, Bailey M, Chapman M, Chapple LS, Deane AM, Hodgson C, King VL, Marshall A, Miller EG, McGuinness SP, Parke R, Udy AA; the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group; Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group

(2022), BMJ Open, 12(3), e050153

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-050153

Survival of people with cystic fibrosis in Australia

Ruseckaite R, Salimi F, Earnest A, Bell SC, Douglas T, Frayman K, Keatley L, King S, Kotsimbos T, Middleton PG, Morey S, Mulrennan S, Schultz A, Wainwright C, Ward N, Wark P, Ahern S

(2022), SCI REP-UK, 12(1), 19749

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-24374-4

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