Dr Batterham holds a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry, a Masters in Science (Nutrition and Dietetics), a Master of Medical Statistics and a PhD(Science). She is an Accredited Statistician and an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian. Dr Batterham is the Director of the Statistical Consulting Service in Informatics and works across the university, helping to provide students and staff members with the statistical design and analysis of their research. The service provided by the Statistical Consulting Service aims to improve the statistical content of research carried out by members of the University. Field of Study: Nutrition Research Member Dietitians Association of Australia, Member Statistical Society of Australia (NSW Branch), Member International Society of Bayesian Analysis, Member American Statistical Association Current Research Students: Sasiwimon Iwsakal, co-supervisor, with Professor Ken Russell. Adaptive clinical trials.
Articles
Additional feeding assistance improves the energy and protein intakes of hospitalised elderly patients. A health services evaluation (with Fiona Manning, Kerri Harris, Rhys Duncan, Karen Walton, Julie Bracks, Lyndal Larby, Linda Vari, Katja Jukkola, Janet Bell, and Maria Chan), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (2012)
Malnutrition is a serious issue that is prevalent in elderly hospitalised patients. Traditionally the role...
Comparing attitudes to fish consumption between clinical trial participants and non-trial individuals (with Elizabeth P. Neale, Deborah Nolan-Clark, Yasmine C. Probst, and Linda C. Tapsell), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (2012)
Malnutrition (Subjective Global Assessment) scores and serum albumin levels, but not body mass Index values, at initiation of dialysis are independent predictors of mortality: A 10-year clinical cohort study (with Maria Chan, J Kelly, and Linda Tapsell), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (2012)
OBJECTIVE: To examine the associations between demographic, clinical, lifestyle, and nutritional parameters at the start...
Preventing obesity among adolescent girls: One-year outcomes of the nutrition and enjoyable activity for teen girls (NEAT Girls) cluster randomized controlled trial (with David R. Lubans, Philip J. Morgan, Anthony D. Okely, Deborah Dewar, Clare E. Collins, Robin Callister, and Ronald C. Plotnikoff), Faculty of Education - Papers (2012)
Objective: To evaluate the impact of a 12-month multicomponent school-based obesity prevention program, Nutrition and...
Randomized controlled study of the urinary excretion of biophenols following acute and chronic intake of olive leaf supplements (with Megan Kendall, Damien L. Callahan, Daniel Jardine, Paul D. Prenzler, Kevin Robards, and Danielle Ryan), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2012)
Olive leaf supplement was characterised by HPLC and administered to healthy young adults over 28...
Presentations
Baseline characteristics of volunteers in the smart clinical trial: associations between habitual physical activity and lifestyle disease risk factors (with Qingsheng Zhang, Jane E. O'Shea, Rebecca L. Thorne, Linda C. Tapsell, and Karen E. Charlton), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (2010)
Physical Activity has been suggested to have favorable effects on various cardiovascular risk factors, and...
Cholesterol-lowering effects of B-glucan containing breakfast cereals and snack bars (with Karen E. Charlton, Linda C. Tapsell, Jane E. O'Shea, Rebecca L. Thorne, Qingsheng Zhang, and Eleanor Beck), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (2010)
Fibre: male participants not getting enough (with Rebecca L. Thorne, Jane E. O'Shea, Qingsheng Zhang, Linda C. Tapsell, and Karen E. Charlton), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (2010)
A regular intake of dietary fibre has been associated with a number of health benefits....
Pork, beef and chicken have similar effects on acute satiety and appetite regulatory hormone responses (with Karen E. Charlton, Linda C. Tapsell, Jane E. O'Shea, Rebecca L. Thorne, Qingsheng Zhang, and Eleanor Beck), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (2010)
Start date may predict attrition 6 months into a 12mth dietary intervention weight loss trial (with Jane O'Shea, Linda C. Tapsell, Karen Charlton, Yasmine Probst, Rebecca Thorne, Qingsheng Zhang, and Holley Jones), Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (2010)
Participant recruitment is a difficult and time consuming aspect of clinical trials, often resulting in...