This webinar is brought to you by the Dietitians Australia Education Centre (2023). 

1 March 2023 at 12:00pm - 1:00pm (AEDT, Canberra/Sydney/Melbourne time)
1 March 2023 at 11:30am - 12:30pm (ACDT)
1 March 2023 at 11:00am - 12:00pm (AEST)
1 March 2023 at 9:00am - 10:00am (AWST)

 Join our panel of authors as they come together to present their latest research on the nutrition profession published in the Nutrition & Dietetics journal. 

In this live webinar, authors will provide an overview of their findings and recommendations to put their research into your practice. 

Research papers:

• Gut health, the microbiome and dietary choices: An exploration of consumer perspectives - Georgina Williams
• Dietitians' perspectives on the role of dietetics practice in 'gut health' - Georgina Williams
• The effect of oral refeeding compared with nasogastric refeeding on the quality of care for patients hospitalised with an eating disorder: a systematic review - Cassandra Bendall 
• 'We work in silos': Exploring clinicians' perspectives on the dietary management of coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes in Australia public hospital and community health service - Hannah Mayr

Speakers: 

Dr Georgina Williams is an APD and completed her PhD at the University of Wollongong in 2022. Georgina's thesis explored the relationship between diet, the gut microbiota and metabolic health. Georgina now works as a post-doctoral researcher at the Hunter Medical Research Institute with an ongoing focus on understanding interactions between diet and gut bacteria, and how these interactions can be utilised to improve dietary management of gastrointestinal disease and disorders. Georgina is also interested in bettering dietary assessment in diet-microbiome research to enhance research translation to dietetic practice. Georgina also works in private practice and is passionate about providing personalised, evidence based dietary management of gastrointestinal conditions and digestive health. 

Cassandra Bendall is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian who is currently working as a Paediatric Dietitian at Monash Children's Hopsital. Cassandra has worked across two tertiary services specialising in Paediatric and Adolescent Eating Disorder Management and hopes to further improve the care provided to hospitalised adolescents and adults with an eating disorder. 

Dr Hannah Mayr (AdvAPD) is a Health Practitioner Research Fellow and Dietitian in Metro South Health, Brisbane where she?collaborates with diverse teams of medical and allied health clinician researchers. Dr Mayr has clinical research expertise in chronic disease prevention and management and her work has a focus on evidence-based dietary patterns. Hannah received the Dietitians Australia Early Career Researcher Award in 2018 for her PhD work investigating a Mediterranean diet intervention. She is currently leading a project focused on translating a Mediterranean-style, heart healthy eating pattern approach into routine care for people with type 2 diabetes and heart disease.? Dr Mayr is an experienced university Lecturer in dietetics practice and research and regularly educates multi-disciplinary clinicians on diet’s role in disease prevention and management.

This webinar is worth 1 CPD hour. CPD logs will be updated automatically in the days following the event. 

Webinar access details will be sent out via email on 28 February 2023. The webinar recording will be emailed to registrants within 1-3 business days of the live event. 


Dietitians Australia members: $0 | Non-Members: $35