Profiles
Miss Sophie Medlin
School of Health Professions (Faculty of Health and Human Sciences)
Role
Lecturer in Dietetic Practice and clinical placement co-ordinator
Qualifications
BSc Hons Dietetics Plymouth University
Following qualification as a dietitian I worked at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital before taking on a Head and Neck Cancer and Nutrition Support post at Poole Hospital. Following this I worked at Torbay Hospital as an Intestinal Failure and Colorectal Specialist Dietitian. I have a specialist interest in the management of GI disorders and have been invited to publish both academically and voluntarily on this. I have written several articles for both the British Journal of Nursing and the British Journal of Gastrointestinal Nursing and act as a peer reviewer for these publications.
Professional membership
British Dietetic Association, membership number, 10500
Health and Care Professions Council, registration number DT22089
British Association of Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition
European Society of Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition
Freelance Dietitians Group
Research interests
The dietary treatment and prevention of colonic diverticular disease
The dietary management of short bowel syndrome
Nutritional status and outcomes from colorectal surgery
Body composition changes following nutritional interventions
Nutritional and fluid requirements: high-output stomas
British Journal of Nursing, 2012, Vol.21(6), pp. S22-25
Republished: Gastrointestinal Nursing, 2012, 10(7):42-49
Nutrition for wound healing
British Journal of Nursing, 2012, Vol.21(12), pp.S11-2, S14-15
Recent developments in enteral feeding for adults: an update
British Journal of Nursing, 2012, Vol 21(18), pp.1061-2, 1064-7
The low FODMAP diet: new hope for irritable bowel syndrome sufferers