This project will focus on providing telehealth nutrition intervention for rural parents who are concerned about their child’s weight or eating habits.
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I have a great appreciation for science. Doing something I am passionate about everyday that has the power to change lives for the better ... that's pretty amazing to call work!
My career goal is to become an independent internationally recognised researcher who produces high quality investigations to address diet and eating behaviours which can be used to develop or refine new interventions and angles to inform policies to improve the nutritional status and weight of populations.
Professor Tracy Burrows is an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian (AdvAPD) and Senior Lecturer in the School of Health Sciences, Faculty Health and Medicine at the University of Newcastle. She completed her PhD in 2008 and was appointed Lecturer at UON in the same year. Prior to this, she worked in private practice as a dietitian, having obtained an undergraduate degree BHSc (Nutrition & Dietetics).
Professor Burrows has developed a cohesive program of research on obesity over the lifespan ranging from preschool through to adulthood, with particular focuses on food addiction, biomarkers/validation methods and obesity management.
She has employed a variety of nutritional biomarkers sourced from blood, plasma and urine including carotenoids, red blood cell membrane fatty acids and double labelled water. Professor Burrows has overcome a range of methodological barriers specific to paediatric populations, including practical family arrangements, limited attention spans, and varying stages of cognitive development, to obtain nutritional outcome measures.
Her intervention work in obesity treatment and prevention has been translated to a diverse range of population groups including indigenous and low income families. One community translation study received an award from the World Health Organisation for Excellence in Obesity Prevention (2014).
Professor Burrows' research expertise also includes qualitative work underpinned by theoretical constructs, and applications of clinical imaging techniques such as fMRI (functional MRI scans).
Through her research and expertise, Associate Professor Burrows has worked with the Medical Research Council, UK and consulted to the National Cancer Institute, USA. From 2011-2015 she co-chaired the Food and Nutrition Stream of the Australasian Child and Adolescent Obesity Research Network (ACAORN).
Professor Burrows has published numerous papers in international journals and presented at both both National and International conferences. She has also received >10 research awards including the 2014 Scopus Young Researcher of the Year in medicine and medical sciences. She regularly supervises a variety of Masters, PhD and undergraduate honours projects.
In 2012, Professor Burrows was part of the leadership team that undertook the systematic reviews to update the NHMRC dietary guidelines. She contributed to evidence synthesis and guideline development, which informed the writing of these national guidelines. In a similar role she was part of the team that undertook the reviews for revision of the Dietitians Association of Australia Obesity Management Guidelines for Obesity.
Improving peoples lives through better nutrition and dietary behaviours.
ABC Newcastle interview with Kia Handley - 26 February 2019
Professor Tracy Burrows
Ms Li Kheng Chai, Dr Tracy Burrows, Prof Clare Collins
This project will focus on providing telehealth nutrition intervention for rural parents who are concerned about their child’s weight or eating habits.
moreProfessor Clare Collins, Dr Megan Rollo, Dr Tracy Burrows
Tracy, a member of HMRI's Cardiovascular Research Program, aspires not only be a leading researcher but also a research leader and was recently named a 2016 NSW Young Tall Poppy of the Year. Tracy will use the Equal Futures funding to access one on one leadership mentoring with the Institute of Executive Coaching and leadership.
moreProfessor Clare Collins, Dr Megan Rollo, Dr Tracy Burrows and Dr Melinda Hutchesson
$10K to support our eHealth research project measuring the impact of web-based feedback on dietary intake in improving eating patterns and health. We have a trial approved through ethics, but no $$ to test the impact on dietary intake, hence this will fund this pilot study.
Professor Clare Collins, Dr Megan Rollo, Dr Tracy Burrows
$10K for a PhD top-up for Katherine Brain who is doing her PhD on Nutrition and Pain and has just converted to full time after securing a basis scholarship (CIs are myself, Dr Megan Rollo and Dr Tracy Burrows)
Children whose parents suffer a heart attack or stroke prematurely are at a particularly high risk, inheriting a predisposition to heart disease as well as their parent’s eating habits and lifestyle behaviours.
moreChildren whose parents suffer a heart attack or stroke prematurely are at a particularly high risk, inheriting a predisposition to heart disease as well as their parent’s eating habits and lifestyle behaviours.
Dr Tracy Burrows, Professor Clare Collins, Professor Robin Callister, Dr Amand Nagle
Associate Professor Philip Morgan, Richard Fletcher, Craig Hammond, John Lester, Professor Clare Collins, Robin Callister, Tracy Burrows