Project Description
Dr Susan de Jersey
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Advanced Accredited Practicing Dietitian, Metro North Clinician Research Fellow
Dr de Jersey is an Advanced Accredited Practicing Dietitian at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Senior Lecturer within the Perinatal Research Centre at the University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research and holds a visiting research appointment in the School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences at Queensland University of Technology. She is a current Metro North Clinical Research Fellow.
Dr de Jersey has diverse experience across the health care continuum in Australia and the UK having worked in rural, regional and metropolitan health services. She is passionate about supporting clinician researchers answer important questions generated in the delivery of clinical care and is involved in a wide variety of research projects, mentors staff and supervises postgraduate students. She is recognised as a national expert in her clinical discipline.
- Maternal and infant nutrition and health
- Prevention of non-communicable disease during the reproductive years
- Implementation and knowledge translation
- Research capacity building
Service evaluation; quantitative research; implementation science, observational and cohort studies.
2020- 2024 Metro North Clinician Research Fellowship
2020-2021 RBWH Early Career Fellowship (Declined)
2018 Best Allied Health Poster Award, Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society Annual Meeting
2017 Metro North Hospital and Health Service, Complex Health Challenges Group Winner, Obstetric Medicine Research Group
2017 Metro North Hospital and Health Service, Research Support, Nutrition and Dietetics Team, Highly Commended
2017 Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Alumni Research Encouragement Award
2016 PEN Evidence Based Practice Award, Highly Commended, Dietitians Association of Australia
2014 Research in Practice Award, Dietitians Association of Australia
Phone: 0424 949 217