Program
The National Nutrition & Dietetics Research Summit 2026 program is displayed below in a condensed overview format. Beneath the condensed format is an expanded version of the program with presentation titles and author names.
The program may by subject to change in the lead up to the Summit.
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Program - condensed version
| Time | Session Title | |||
| 8:30am – 9:00am | Check in | |||
| 9:00am – 9:25am | Session 1 - Summit Opening Room: Room: Wadawurrung 1 & 2 (combined) |
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Welcome to Country Opening remarks Working Group presentation |
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| 9:30am – 10:45am | Session 2 - Abstracts | |||
| Clinical Room: Gunditjmara 1 |
Public health Room: Wadawurrung 1 |
Food services and systems Room: Gunditjmara 2 |
Workforce and education Room: Wadawurrung 2 |
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| Abstracts | Abstracts | Abstracts | Abstracts | |
| 10:45am – 11:15am | Morning tea in the foyer | |||
| Group 1 poster presentations in the immersive display room | ||||
| 11:15am – 12:30pm | Session 3 - Abstracts | |||
| Clinical Room: Wadawurrung 1 |
Workforce and education Room: Wadawurrung 2 |
Digital health and technology Room: Gunditjmara 1 |
Nutrition Solutions: Mental health, disability and future directions Room: Gunditjmara 2 |
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| Abstracts | Abstracts | Abstracts | Abstracts | |
| 12:30pm – 1:30pm | Lunch posters | |||
| Group 2 and 3 poster presentations in the immersive display room | ||||
| 1:30pm – 3pm | Session 4 - Keynote Room: Wadawurrung 1 & 2 (combined) |
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Professor Sarah McNaughton: Nutrition and Dietetic Research Opportunities and Challenges Presentation - TBC Abstracts |
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| 3pm – 3:30pm | Afternoon tea in the foyer | |||
| Group 4 poster presentations in the immersive display room | ||||
| 3:30 – 4:40pm | Session 5 - Workshops | |||
| Room: Wadawurrung 1 | Room: Wadawurrung 2 | |||
| Workshop 1: Research at the interface between evidence and system impact – how well do we do and can we do better? | Workshop 2: Mastering Your Voice | |||
| 4:45pm – 5:30pm | Session 6 - Keynote and closing remarks Room: Wadawurrung 1 & 2 (combined) |
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Research awards Alison Bell: Use and Disclosure of AI in Research Publication Closing remarks |
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Program - expanded version
| Time | Session Title | |||
| 8:30am – 9:00am | Check in | |||
| 9:00am – 9:25am | Session 1 - Summit Opening Room: Wadawurrung 1 & 2 (combined) |
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| Welcome to Country | ||||
| Opening remarks | ||||
| Working Group presentation | ||||
| 9:30am – 10:45am | Session 2 - Abstracts | |||
| Clinical Room: Gunditjmara 1 |
Public health Room: Wadawurrung 1 |
Food services and systems Room: Gunditjmara 2 |
Workforce and education Room: Wadawurrung 2 |
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| 4038: Frailty Predicts Outcomes in Liver Transplant: A Reliable Tool for Dietitians. (Heidi Johnston) | 4171: Implementation of community actions designed using systems thinking. (Gloria Leung) | 4180: Amplifying Quiet Voices of Patient Meal Experiences through Proxy Feedback. (Cham Kei Kwong) | 4195: Consensus on High-Value Dietitian Work and Response Times in a Metro Hospital. (Katherine Desneves) | |
| 4067: Dietary intake of carboxymethyllysine (CML) is associated with infertility. (Nicole Kellow) | 4029: Validity of the AES FFQ in Assessing Nutrient Intake in South Asian Australians. (Purva Gulyani) | 4085: Staff Perspectives on Mealtime Practices in Bed-Based Services. (Melissa Williams) | 4144: Transgender and gender diverse health education for healthcare students. (Majella Jones) | |
| 4211: Diet Changes after a Low Energy Diet in Chronic Kidney Disease and Obesity. (Alex Borg) | 4191: Dietary Acculturation in Indian Immigrants: A Scoping Review. (Swati Bachani Singh) | 4141: Relevance on the Menu: Innovating Food Service Education for Future Dietitians. (Priya Iyer) | 4058: Private practice dietetics in Australia: insights into an evolving landscape. (Amy Kirkegaard) | |
| 4035: Establishing ketogenic diet therapy services in multidisciplinary adult care (Neha Kaul) | 4152: PERTH cohort: Canned food and beverage intake and urinary BPA levels in adults. (Kim Jarvie) | 4142: A kitchen garden within a therapy garden: stakeholder experiences in a hospital. (Mary Tess Bermejo) | 4094: Development and Evaluation of a State-Wide Gastrostomy Training Program. (Sharon Carey) | |
| 4175: Screening for avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder in coeliac disease. (Caroline Tuck) | 4068: Life’s Essential 8 and Metabolic Syndrome in Postmenopausal Women,NHANES 2011-20. (Harshini Meegaswatte) | 4113: Using a collective impact approach to transform a regional food system. (Karen Charlton) | 4049: Perspectives on the CDU Master of Dietetics Model: Insights from stakeholders. (Judith Myers) | |
| 4106: Paving the way: Complex obesity pathway improves outcomes and research capacity. (Helen MacLaughlin) | 4166: From Danish Success to Australian Opportunity Increasing Whole Grain Consumption. (Theresa Pham) | 4061: Group model-building to understand ultra-processed food use in hospitals. (Judi Porter) | 4055: Integrating Indigenous Knowledges in Dietetics Education. (Alison Spence) | |
| 4060: Feed your muscles: Exploring the effect of dietary education in rehabilitation. (Amy Ekin) | 4128: Theory-based development of Tiny Bites intervention to improve infant nutrition. (Sze Lin Yoong) | 4217: The sustainment of an effective food retail intervention post-trial. (Sarah Dickie) | 4033: Translating Professional Supervision: A comprehensive narrative review. (Laura Kiely) | |
| 4052: Dietitian nutrition assessment and documentation in an acute care hospital. (Gail Whitelock) | 4156: Underutilised and Undefined: Co-Designing the role of a Dietitian in ECEC. (Lisa Vincze) | 4098: Menu Assessment Tools in Residential Aged Care: What tools are out there? (Karly Bartrim) | 4127: Dietetic Graduate Employability: What factors enhance employment outcomes? (Mehak Mehta) | |
| 4147: Patient outcomes of an interprofessional student-led diabetes program. (Joanne Avery) | 4181: Knowledge, attitudes and practices of potassium salt by healthcare professionals. (Katrina Kissock) | 4108: Ordering, preparing and handling milk for babies in the Neonatal Unit. (Pauline Schillinger) | 4173: Co-designing weight-inclusive care in dietetics education. (Therese O'Sullivan) | |
| 10:45am – 11:15am | Morning tea in the foyer Group 1 posters presentations in the immersive display room |
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| 4164: Junior Dietitians’ Experiences and Preparedness for Private Practice. (Yifan Bai) | 4123: Examining commercial toddler foods: price, nutrition and alternative options. (Saskia Thomas) | 4159: ED-Safety of Nutrition Screening in Youth Mental Health: A Rapid Scoping Review. (Kye Olsen) | 4188:Shaping a Nutrition Research Collaborative: towards high impact nutrition care. (Helen MacLaughlin) | |
| 4076: Nutritional Audit of Children’s Squeeze Pouches in Australian Supermarkets. (Claudia Marzulli) | 4203: Systems mapping to understand how to implement systems-based community actions. (Joshua Hayward) | 4136: The Impact of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Testing Changes in the ACT 2012-2019. (Jennifer Hutchinson) | 4158: Effectiveness of MST process in providing high-value care for Oncology Patients. (Tegan Frail) | |
| 4174: Business Case Redesign: Engaging Dietetics Students in Real-World Practice. (Michelle Cork) | 4167: The impact of Dietetics on dietary habits and weight of Osteoarthritis patients. (Gemma Monaghan) | 4214: Digital Sources of Nutrition Knowledge for Young Adults: A Scoping Review. (Karita Yu) | 4099: Microvascular Modulation in Endometriosis Pain: Nutraceutical Intervention. (Emily Redwood) | |
| 4073: Nutrition Screening Tools for Youth Mental Health - A Rapid Scoping Review. (Aya Kalassina) | 4027: Effects of BCAAs, with or without Trp or Met on health outcomes in older adults. (Shulin Zhang) | 4083: Life’s Essential 8 and Depression Among Postmenopausal Women: NHANES 2011–2020. (Harshini Meegaswatte) | 4054: Athletes' use of sports foods and ultra-processed foods: what do we know? (Sara Forbes) | |
| 4208: Implementation of a Dietitian-Led Gastrostomy Clinic in Central Queensland. (Elyssa Hughes) | 4145: Packaging in a Pandemic: Impact of Covid on Beverage Package Size. (Ines Barbara Loureiro) | |||
| 11:15am – 12:30pm | Session 3 - Abstracts | |||
| Clinical Room: Wadawurrung 1 |
Workforce and education Room: Wadawurrung 2 |
Digital health and technology Room: Gunditjmara 1 |
Nutrition Solutions: Mental health, disability and future directions Room: Gunditjmara 2 |
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| 4177: Oral nutrition support in acute/critical care: systematic review & meta-analysis. (Letisha Osagiede) | 4118: Screening for malnutrition in the community using allied health assistants. (Michelle Livy) | 4161: Potential effectiveness of a text-messaging program targeting parents of 0-1 yrs. (Jacklyn Jackson) | 4178: Integrated weight-ED interventions in higher-weight adults: Systematic review. (Olivia McDonnell) | |
| 4110: Assessing eating disorder risk in weight management: A systematic mapping review. (Hannah Melville) | 4137: Equipping primary care dietitians to support cancer survivors: A co-design study. (Henriette Ryding) | 4143: Partnering for Impact: Co-designing Digital Nutrition Education Materials. (Hannah Olufson) | 4042: Supporters' Perceptions of Nutrition for People with Intellectual Disability. (Monica Wellington) | |
| 4165: Experiences of patients with Hospital Acquired Malnutrition and their carers. (Michelle Palmer) | 4210: Finding Home Beyond the City: Placement exposure and experiences matter! (Carolyn Keogh) | 4155: Decoding and digitising nutrition information for young people in Australia. (Sophia Zhang) | 4182: Dietary and Psychological Factors in GI Symptoms of Recreational Runners. (Georgia Jurkovich) | |
| 4051: Dietetics in Crohns disease: patient insights and implications for practice. (Georgina Williams) | 4036: Employment two years following graduation: a longitudinal study of dietitians. (Lana Mitchell) | 4184: Using AI and custom GPTs to translate feeding therapy into the home. (Rachel Zabel) | 4216: From Evidence to Action: Participatory Pathways Toward Food Justice in Tasmania. (Sandra Murray) | |
| 4066: Dietetic management of altered food intake in DGBI. (Kerith Duncanson) | 4215: Creating capacity by eliminating low-value care work in dietetics. (Chantelle Elson) | 4034: The DHC: A co-designed healthy lifestyle social media programme for young women. (Jessica Malloy) | 4064: Culinary nutrition: interprofessional competency framework development. (Emma Stirling) | |
| 4149: Malnutrition in Australian Hospitals:A Scoping Review to inform Systems Thinking. (Jolie Baird) | 4047: Quality Improvement in Dietetics: Attitudes, Influences and Opportunities. (Josephine-Lee Oddo) | 4071: Co-Designing Social Media Health Promotion for Young Women: Daily Health Coach. (Rajshri Roy) | 4154: Mapping Online Nutrigenomic Direct-to-Consumer Tests: A Scoping Review. (Caitlin McCartney) | |
| 4176: A mixed methods study on the dietary experiences of people with kidney disease. (Stephanie Notaras) | 4097: Optimising the Role of Allied Health Assistants in Dietetics: A WOMBAT Study (Cassidy Burger) | 4212: From kitchen to camera: Evaluating youth food literacy with photovoice. (Isabella Maugeri) | 4206: Changes in dietary plastic exposure, energy and nutrients in a randomised trial. (Amelia Harray) | |
| 4126: Need for Consensus on Diabetes Care in Pregnant Women After Bariatric Surgery. (Dhwani Sarda) | 4095: Developing methodology to calculate staffing requirements to meet best practice. (Sharon Carey) | 4130: ProHealth: Remote nutrition & exercise support for men with prostate cancer. (Brenton Baguley) | 4194: Enteral feeding in delirium: barriers, enablers and medical staff reasoning. (Esti Adithama) | |
| 4138: Evaluating obesity severity in adolescents presenting for behavioural treatment. (Natalie Lister) | 4048: Higher education assessment policy and its influence on assessment practice. (Ryan Surace) | 4105: Digital Health in Cardiovascular Nutrition Care: Mixed Methods Systematic Review. (Vanessa Marasigan) | 4086: Therapy Kitchen: Five Years of Dietitian-Led Feeding Therapy Innovation. (Brooke Harcourt) | |
| 12:30pm – 1:30pm | Lunch posters | |||
| Group 2 poster presentations in the immersive display room | ||||
| 12:30pm – 1:00pm | 4077: Package design features as a tool to guide portion size selection. (Qingxhou Liu) | 4200: Traditional Diets as a Pathway to Sustainable and Healthy Eating. (Faten A Alharbi) | 4104: Oats in Gluten free diets: benchmarking Australia against global regulations. (Kim Faulkner-Hogg) | 4133: Metabolic Syndrome in Obesity-Related Asthma: A Treatable Trait for Dietitians. (Tamara Blickisdorf) |
| 4135: Women’s risk profile in a post-pregnancy cardiometabolic health clinic. (Shelley Wilkinson) | 4205: Feeding Healthy Futures: Staged Nutrition Education in the First 1000 days. (Leanne Elliston) | 4196: Assessing the Need for Nutritional Prehab in Stem Cell Transplant Patients. (Yasmine Halal) | 4120: The Price Tag of Ketogenic Diets for Epilepsy. (Lillian King) | |
| 4207: Gestational Weight Gain Monitoring to assess malnutrition risk during pregnancy. (Megan Kemp) | 4028: Mental health dietetics: A qualitative exploration of dietitians' experiences. (Georgina Latimer) | 4079: Classification methods for UPF show higher intake in IBS than healthy volunteers. (Caroline Tuck) | 4065: Energy expenditure in head and neck cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis. (Lauren Hanna) | |
| 4096:Analysing Unhealthy Advertisements in Local Victorian Council Sports Facilities. (Sarah Kim) | 4072: Artificial intelligence and communication skill development in dietetics. (Lisa Barker) | 4107: Legitimising the “health by stealth” approach to food reformulation. (Sara Grafenauer) | 4088: Traditional diets and depression and anxiety:systematic review and meta-analysis. (Delyse Tien) | |
| 4163: Malnutrition Prevalence in Subacute Facilities: A Cross-Sectional Study. (Hannah Olufson) | ||||
| Group 3 poster presentations in the immersive display room | ||||
| 1:00pm – 1:30pm | 4192: Fermented plant proteins for enhancing muscle health and combating Sarcopenia. (Stephen Keenan) | 4087: Embedding a culture of quality improvement through strategic practice innovation. (Caroline Kratzing) | 4090: Community-Led Pilot Medically Tailored Meals Intervention for Type 2 Diabetes. (Antonia Thodis) | 4091: Care staff training to improve the mealtime experience for aged care residents. (Shannon Turnbull) |
| 4199: Partnering with Communities to deliver Early Life Nutrition Education. (Leanne Elliston) | 4160: AUSNUT-Based Food Chemical Database for Salicylates, Biogenic Amines & Glutamate. (Kyle Whelan) | 4114: Nourish. Empower. Thrive: A Feeding Therapy Program for Neurodivergent Children. (Rachel Zabel) | 4218: Exploring digital sources of healthy eating knowledge for adolescents. (Talia O'Brien) | |
| 4198: Feeding the Future: Are Young Australians Eating Sustainably? (Mona Maier) | 4080: The CF PaNC Study: A Multicentre Prospective Observational Study Protocol. (Caitlin Miles) | 4148: Is frailty and malnutrition risk correlated in elderly hospitalised patients? (Alannah Harris) | 4197: Co-designed cultural lifestyle interventions for adolescents: A Scoping Review. Nematullah Hayba) | |
| 4082: Implementing infant feeding recommendations in care: Tiny Bites baseline results. (Najma Moumin) | 4053: Building consensus using a Delphi technique for a cancer nutrition model of care. (Jenelle Loeliger) | 4150: Exploring the use of free statistical packages in nutrition research. (Marijka Batterham) | 4074: Fueling Success: Adequacy of Pre- and Post-Op Nutrition in Colorectal Surgery. (Stephanie Langton) | |
| 4089: Crap Data No More: Developing an Adapted Bristol Stool Chart for Continence Aids. (Miranda Charlwood) | ||||
| 1:30pm – 3pm | Session 4 - Keynote Room: Wadawurrung 1 & 2 (combined) |
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| Professor Sarah McNaughton: Nutrition and Dietetic Research Opportunities and Challenges | ||||
| Presentation - TBC | ||||
Abstracts
4056: Examining dietetic training of international students via a critical lens. (Suet Ting Choi) |
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| 3pm – 3:30pm | Afternoon tea in the foyer Group 4 posters presentations in the immersive display room |
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| 4157: Nutrition support in delirium patients: A retrospective case series. (Jolie Baird) | 4190: Mapping Australian Adolescent Digital Health Initiatives with Wellbeing Domains. (Mariah Issa) | 4129: Outcomes of an 18-month audit of a hospital acquired malnutrition database. (Andrea Bramley) | 4168: Virtual Dietetic Care for Neuromuscular Diseases: A Retrospective Analysis. (Emily Farrugia) | |
| 4162: Food literacy and the Ezidi community: A co-design project. (Keely O'Brien) | 4059: ARFID in children with and without food allergy. (Daniela Ciciulla) | 4132: Insights from aged care staff using the Theoretical Domains Framework. (Annalise Macriyiannis) | 4179: Childcare Interventions Targeting Physical and Mental Health:A Systematic Review. (Danyu Yang) | |
| 4183: Eating disorder safe practices in healthcare: A pilot survey. (Jane Luckett) | 4062: Development & acceptability of a first line patient educational video for IBS. (Jennifer Armstrong) | 4134: Does pregnancy intention influence preconception health behaviours in women? (Sheree Spiteri) | 4185: AI chatbots for nutrition weight loss; its efficacy & equity in CALD groups. (James Lin) | |
| 4100: Building a Sustainable Tasmanian Dietetics Workforce: Workforce Needs Assessment. (Felicity Palma) | 4209: Vitamin D and Its Binding Protein Concentrations in Patients with Osteosarcoma. Dian Sulistyoningrum) | 4140: Healthy eating interventions delivered in childcare: a Cochrane review update. (Melanie Lum) | 4140: System Failures in Hospital Malnutrition Detection. (Katherine Desneves) | |
| 3:30 – 4:40pm (split main room) |
Session 5 - Workshops | |||
| Room: Wadawurrung 1 | Room: Wadawurrung 2 | |||
Workshop 1: Research at the interface between evidence and system impact – how well do we do and can we do better? (Dietitians Australia's Advocacy and Policy Team)
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Workshop 2: Mastering Your Voice (Dietitians Australia's Media and Marketing Teams) | |||
| 4:45pm – 5:30pm | Session 6 - Keynote and closing remarks Room: Wadawurrung 1 & 2 (combined) |
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| Research awards | ||||
| Alison Bell: Use and Disclosure of AI in Research Publication | ||||
| Closing remarks | ||||