Nutrition Research

Research focus 

• To determine effective nutrition interventions and management for people with cancer, both during and post cancer treatment 

• To understand the patients at greatest risk of malnutrition during cancer treatment 

• To explore novel models of nutritional and multidisciplinary care 

• To understand the prevalence of cancer malnutrition and identify the barriers and enablers to high-quality nutritional care 

Research projects 

Active 

• A Multidisciplinary Optimisation Clinic For Lung And Colorectal Cancer Patients With Complex Needs 

• Cancer malnutrition: Feeding everyone from hospital to home 

• Evaluating the function and effectiveness of the Peter Mac multidisciplinary PEG clinic and PEG credentialed dietitian role

• Exploring current service delivery and nutritional needs of adolescents & young adults (AYA) with cancer 

• Impact of nutritional intervention in the outpatient management of long-term survivors of haematological malignancy treated with stem cell transplantation (SCT) 

• The 20km divide: exploring nutritional inequities at satellite centres

Recruiting 

• Impact of nutritional intervention in the outpatient management of long-term survivors of haematological malignancy treated with stem cell transplantation (SCT) 

Ongoing 

• Malnutrition in Victorian Cancer Services (MVCS) Program 

Completed 

• EAT: Eating as treatment 

• Evaluation of the effectiveness of a nutrition assistant role in the multidisciplinary head and neck cancer clinic 

• How do I do that again? 

• Identifying non-stem cell transplant chemotherapy regimens associated with high nutritional risk in patients with a haematological malignancy 

Contact 

• Ms Jenelle Loeliger - Head: Nutrition & Speech Pathology Department 

• Belinda Steer 

• Erin Kennedy 

• Sarah Gilliland 

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