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

Feed modification for increased energy and protein density as nutrition therapy in critically ill children: A protocol for a scoping review

Winderlich J, Little B, Anderson A, Oberender F, Udy AA, Ridley EJ

(2022), Clinical Nutrition Open Science, 46, 13-9

DOI: 10.1016/j.nutos.2022.10.002

Nutrition before, during and after critical illness

Ridley EJ, Lambell K

(2022), Curr Opin Crit Care, 28(4), 395-400

DOI: 10.1097/MCC.0000000000000961

Clinimetrics: Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis in Clinical Practice

Ferguson CE, Lambell KJ

(2022), J Physiother, 68(4), 280

DOI: 10.1016/j.jphys.2022.05.007

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