Academic Title-Lecturer
Overview
Nutrition and Dietetics Lecturer and Research Fellow.
Research Dietitian at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane working with the Metabolic Research Collaborative. Projects involve clinical research studies in chronic disease prevention and treatment. Role includes implementation of the Mediterranean diet in practice. Collaborating on project ‘the Role of Potassium in Sodium Handling and Blood Pressure’ with team of hypertension specialists.
Research Fellow at La Trobe University, Melbourne for the Australian Mediterranan diet (AUSMED) Heart Trial. Completed PhD on this trial investigating effect of Medtiterranean diet intervention for secondary prevention of coronary heart disease. Key outcome investigated include, diet pattern adherence, adiposity, inflammation and dietary inflammatory index.
Reserch Fellow for Project GRIT (Growth, Resilience, Insights, Thrive): a pilot single-arm intervention study to prevent childhood obesity; a collaboration between Weight Loss Solutions Australia and Bond University.
Coordinator of Bond Masters of Nutrition and Dietetics (BUND) Practice research project internships and chair of BUND Research team meetings.
Research Interests
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Dietary patterns
Including the Mediterranean diet and other evidence-based healthy dietary patterns, specifically for the prevention and management of chronic disease. -
Inflammation
Relationship with dietary intake, including the dietary inflammatory index and the role of inflammation in chronic disease. -
Translation of research into practice
Consideration of evidence-practice gaps in dietetics and how to translate the best practice guidelines and evidence based models of care into routine practice. -
Cardiometabolic disease
Mechanisms for the management and treatment or cardiovascular diseases, fatty liver disease and type 2 diabetes through lifestyle intervention
Publications
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Marx, Wolfgang, George, Elena S., Mayr, Hannah L., Thomas, Colleen J., Sarapis, Katerina, Moschonis, George, Kennedy, Greg, Pipingas, Andrew, Willcox, Jane C., Prendergast, Luke A. and Itsiopoulos, Catherine (2019) Effect of high polyphenol extra virgin olive oil on markers of cardiovascular disease risk in healthy Australian adults (OLIVAUS): A protocol for a double‐blind randomised, controlled, cross‐over study. Nutrition & Dietetics, . doi:10.1111/1747-0080.12531
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Mayr, Hannah L., Tierney, Audrey C., Kucianski, Teagan, Thomas, Colleen J. and Itsiopoulos, Catherine (2018) Australian patients with coronary heart disease achieve high adherence to 6-month Mediterranean diet intervention: preliminary results of the AUSMED Heart Trial. Nutrition, 61 21-31. doi:10.1016/j.nut.2018.10.027
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Itsiopoulos, Catherine, Kucianski, Teagan, Mayr, Hannah L., van Gaal, William J., Martinez-Gonzalez, Miguel Angel, Vally, Hassan, Kingsley, Michael, Kouris-Blazos, Antigone, Radcliffe, Jessica, Segal, Leonie, Brazionis, Laima, Salim, Agus, Tierney, Audrey C., O'Dea, Kerin, Wilson, Andrew and Thomas, Colleen J. (2018) The AUStralian MEDiterranean Diet Heart Trial (AUSMED Heart Trial): A randomized clinical trial in secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in a multiethnic Australian population: Study protocol. American Heart Journal, 203 4-11. doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2018.05.010
Publications
Journal Article
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Marx, Wolfgang, George, Elena S., Mayr, Hannah L., Thomas, Colleen J., Sarapis, Katerina, Moschonis, George, Kennedy, Greg, Pipingas, Andrew, Willcox, Jane C., Prendergast, Luke A. and Itsiopoulos, Catherine (2019) Effect of high polyphenol extra virgin olive oil on markers of cardiovascular disease risk in healthy Australian adults (OLIVAUS): A protocol for a double‐blind randomised, controlled, cross‐over study. Nutrition & Dietetics, . doi:10.1111/1747-0080.12531
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Mayr, Hannah L., Tierney, Audrey C., Kucianski, Teagan, Thomas, Colleen J. and Itsiopoulos, Catherine (2018) Australian patients with coronary heart disease achieve high adherence to 6-month Mediterranean diet intervention: preliminary results of the AUSMED Heart Trial. Nutrition, 61 21-31. doi:10.1016/j.nut.2018.10.027
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Itsiopoulos, Catherine, Kucianski, Teagan, Mayr, Hannah L., van Gaal, William J., Martinez-Gonzalez, Miguel Angel, Vally, Hassan, Kingsley, Michael, Kouris-Blazos, Antigone, Radcliffe, Jessica, Segal, Leonie, Brazionis, Laima, Salim, Agus, Tierney, Audrey C., O'Dea, Kerin, Wilson, Andrew and Thomas, Colleen J. (2018) The AUStralian MEDiterranean Diet Heart Trial (AUSMED Heart Trial): A randomized clinical trial in secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in a multiethnic Australian population: Study protocol. American Heart Journal, 203 4-11. doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2018.05.010
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Mayr, Hannah L., Itsiopoulos, Catherine, Tierney, Audrey C., Ruiz-Canela, Miguel, Hebert, James R., Shivappa, Nitin and Thomas, Colleen J. (2018) Improvement in dietary inflammatory index score after 6-month dietary intervention is associated with reduction in interleukin-6 in patients with coronary heart disease: the AUSMED heart trial. Nutrition Research, 55 108-121. doi:10.1016/j.nutres.2018.04.007
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Mayr, Hannah L., Thomas, Colleen J., Tierney, Audrey C., Kucianski, Teagan, George, Elena S., Ruiz-Canela, Miguel, Hebert, James R., Shivappa, Nitin and Itsiopoulos, Catherine (2018) Randomization to 6-month Mediterranean diet compared with a low-fat diet leads to improvement in Dietary Inflammatory Index scores in patients with coronary heart disease: the AUSMED Heart Trial. Nutrition Research, 55 94-107. doi:10.1016/j.nutres.2018.04.006
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George, Elena S., Kucianski, Teagan, Mayr, Hannah L., Moschonis, George, Tierney, Audrey C. and Itsiopoulos, Catherine (2018) A Mediterranean Diet model in Australia: strategies for translating the traditional Mediterranean Diet into a multicultural setting. Nutrients, 10 4: . doi:10.3390/nu10040465
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Mayr, Hannah L., Tierney, Audrey C., Thomas, Colleen J., Ruiz-Canela, Miguel, Radcliffe, Jessica and Itsiopoulos, Catherine (2018) Mediterranean-type diets and inflammatory markers in patients with coronary heart disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Nutrition Research, 50 10-24. doi:10.1016/j.nutres.2017.10.014
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Central obesity and the Mediterranean diet: A systematic review of intervention trials
Bendall, C. L., Mayr, H. L., Opie, R. S., Bes-Rastrollo, M., Itsiopoulos, C. and Thomas, C. J. (2017) Central obesity and the Mediterranean diet: A systematic review of intervention trials. Critical reviews in food science and nutrition, 58 18: 3070-3084. doi:10.1080/10408398.2017.1351917
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Nevin, Amy, Mayr, Hannah, Atresh, Sridhar, Kemp, Irene, Simmons, Joshua, Vivanti, Angela and Hickman, Ingrid J. (2016) Feasibility and Acceptability of Implementing Indirect Calorimetry Into Routine Clinical Care of Patients With Spinal Cord Injury. Topics in spinal cord injury rehabilitation, 22 4: 269-276. doi:10.1310/sci2016-00001
