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

Our partners

LaTrobe University

Monash Health

Publications

Nutrition management for critically and acutely unwell hospitalised patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Australia and New Zealand

Chapple, Lee anne S.; Fetterplace, Kate; Asrani, Varsha; Burrell, Aidan; Cheng, Allen C.; Collins, Peter; Doola, Ra'eesa; Ferrie, Suzie; Marshall, Andrea P.; Ridley, Emma J.

(2020), NUTR DIET, 77(4), 426-436.

DOI: 10.1111/1747-0080.12636

ESPEN guideline on home enteral nutrition

Bischoff SC, Austin P, Boeykens K, Chourdakis M, Cuerda C, Jonkers-Schuitema C, Lichota M, Nyulasi I, Schneider SM, Stanga Z, Pironi L

(2020), Clin Nutr, 39(1), 5-22

DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2019.04.022

Clinical Sequelae From Overfeeding in Enterally Fed Critically Ill Adults: Where Is the Evidence?

Chapple, Lee anne S.; Weinel, Luke; Ridley, Emma J.; Jones, Daryl; Chapman, Marianne J.; Peake, Sandra L.

(2020), JPEN-PARENTER ENTER, 44(6),

DOI: 10.1002/jpen.1740

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