Dr Aoife Ryan wins 2015 Julie Wallace Award

We are delighted to announce that Dr Aoife Ryan from University College Cork is the 2015 winner of our Julie Wallace Award.   Dr Ryan will be presented with her award on 18 June at our Nutrition at Key Life Stages conference in Cork, Ireland.  Attendees will have the chance to listen to her deliver the Julie Wallace Award Lecture, titled ‘Cancer-associated malnutrition, cachexia and sarcopenia: The skeleton in the hospital closet 40 years later’.  We interviewed Dr Ryan about her career and research interests ahead of the conference. Q: You began your career as a dietitian.  How did you become involved in cancer-related malnutrition? I began my career as a locum dietitian in St. James’s hospital in Dublin where I would rotate around medical specialties covering for colleagues on leave. This was a great start as I got exposure to pretty much the entire hospital. I fast realised my favourite area of dietetics was GI surgery. I loved the challenge of dealing with patients who had very sick guts. I spent seven years working in a surgical unit which did a lot of major GI cancer surgery. I was fortunate that when I graduated I won a post graduate scholarship, which meant I had to start research within three years of my BSc. I asked Professor John Reynolds if I could do research with him. He is professor of surgery at TCD and an upper Gastrointestinal surgeon. Much of his own post graduate research had been in gut barrier function in malnourished patients and he has w...
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