Nutrition Expert

This lady facilitator has a PhD in Nutrition (Newcastle University 2004) and has a number of years of practical experience in nutrition research, dietetics and public health nutrition.

She is a post-doctoral researcher at the Human Nutrition Research Centre. Her skills include being a trainer in behaviour change counselling and training primary care practitioners across the region.

She has written extensively for the printed press, appeared on television and radio and has a written a number of academic publications. Her interests include dietary change, food choice, adolescent diets, obesity and nutrition across the life course.

She is available to facilitate group training sessions on a range of topics and has experience of presenting to a range of audiences.


She trained as a dietitian and practised in UK hospitals before becoming a full time researcher and public health nutritionist with the Human Nutrition Research Centre at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. She has participated in a number of public health and nutrition projects and the results of these have contributed to UK health policies over recent years. She has worked on a range of research studies, including trials in primary care. This expert is currently exploring the obesogenic environment in young people in the UK.

Her work as a nutritionist has taken on more relevance as Western society suffers an obesity epidemic, which is putting increasing pressure on health services. Educating the public about healthy eating has become increasingly important, and she has done this through forums which include the media, public lectures and training sessions for professionals.

She has extensive experience of working with non-specialist audiences as well as academics, and has produced various training programmes and related material. She is currently coaching GPs and nurses on behavioural change counselling techniques with regard to patients' eating and lifestyle habits.

She is a registered expert with the Science Media Centre, British Dietetic Association and Newcastle University Press Office, and is regularly contacted by the media to give comments about topical health stories.


Recent Awards
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?Nutrition Society Travel Fellowship (2006) & School Clinical Medical Sciences Travel Fellowship (2006)
?Department of Health Post-doc Fellow (2006-2008)
?Runner-up BA Charles Darwin Award Lecture February 2005
?Winner Poster Prize Clinical Medical Sciences Research Day January 2005
?Runner-up BNF Young Scientist Award December 2003
?Selected to attend the European Nutrition Leadership Programme March 2003
?Winner of Van den Bergh Foods Travel Fellowship 2000
?Winner of BDA Elizabeth Washington Award 1998

Recent Speaking Engagements
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?July 2006 Dubai Minds Pleasure - Healthy eating: what is it and how to achieve it & Changing your dietary habits and how to maintain the change
?January 2006 Caf? Scientifique Newcastle A New Year: A New You? Speaker and discussion.
?April 2005 London Healthy Options: Food consumption in the workplace The Influence of Work on Food Choice
?April 2005 Glasgow International Continence Society The role of diet and lifestyle in constipation management.
?January 2005 London British Association for the Advancement of Science (panellist) The BA x-change New Year: New You?
?January 2003 Newcastle University of Newcastle School of School of Clinical Medical Sciences Research Day Then and now: the stability of dietary intake between adolescence and adulthood.
?November 2002 Gateshead Dietitians North East and Diabetes Specialist Interest Group The European Diabetes Prevention Study: Newcastle

Recent Presentations
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?April 2006 Harrogate British Sociological Association How men and women differ: change in food consumption from adolescence to adulthood (The ASH30 study)
?June 2005 Amsterdam ISBNPA Longitudinal dietary change from adolescence to adulthood: explanatory factors for dietary change (ASH30)
?April 2005 Gateshead 13th Annual Public Health Forum (UKPHA) Tracking and change in food habits between adolescence and adulthood: a longitudinal study (ASH30)
?April 2005 Gateshead 13th Annual Public Health Forum (UKPHA) A diet and lifestyle intervention for the management of chronic constipation in Primary Care: LIFELAX
?March 2005 York British Sociological Association Social and nutritional perspectives on dietary changes in the life course: from adolescence to adulthood (ASH30)
?November 2004 Durham Northern Primary Care Research Network (NoReN) Development patient information leaflets for constipation using a range of cognitive interview techniques: LIFELAX (ISRCTN7388134)
?July 2004 Dublin Nutrition Society Summer Meeting Development patient information leaflets for constipation using a range of cognitive interview techniques: LIFELAX
?June 2004 Glasgow British Dietetic Association Conference Development patient information leaflets for constipation using a range of cognitive interview techniques: LIFELAX
?November 2003 Durham Northern Primary Care Research Network (NoReN) A diet and lifestyle intervention for the management of constipation in primary care: LIFELAX
?July 2002 Wageningen Xth Food Choice Conference Investigating change in eating patterns from adolescence to adulthood: a preliminary analysis
?February 2002 Edinburgh Nutrition Society. Perspectives in the study of food intake Aggregation of diets containing fatty and sugary foods and fruit and vegetables within cohabiting couples
?July 2001 Sheffield Nutrition Society Summer Meeting The constancy of body mass index from young adolescence to adulthood ? a 20 year follow-up
?October 2000 London BDA Research Symposium Eating habits of families in Sumatra Indonesia
?July 2000 Edinburgh International Congress of Dietetics The Influence of Western foods on a traditional diet: Sumatra, Indonesia

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She trained as a dietitian and practised in UK hospitals before becoming a full time researcher and public health nutritionist with the Human Nutrition Research Centre at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. She has participated in a number of public health and nutrition projects and the results of these have contributed to UK health policies over recent years. She is is currently a Research Fellow, funded by the Department of Health. Amelia?s work explores the topic of ?obesogenic environments? ? which is the concept that obesity is related to the environment.

Her work as a nutritionist has taken on more relevance as Western society suffers an obesity epidemic, which is putting increasing pressure on health services. Educating the public about healthy eating has become increasingly important, and Amelia has done this through forums which include the media, public lectures and training sessions for professionals.

She has extensive experience of working with non-specialist audiences as well as academics, and has produced various training programmes and related material. She has coached medics and nurses on behavioural change counselling techniques with regard to patients' eating and lifestyle habits.

She is a registered expert with the Science Media Centre, British Dietetic Association and Newcastle University Press Office, and is regularly contacted by the media to give comments about topical health stories.
 

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