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Full NameProfessor Clare Corish
School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science
University College Dublin
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- nutrition
- ageing
- Dietetics
Nutrition; Dietetics
Professor Corish has a long-standing commitment to disease-related malnutrition/malnutrition in the older adult, nutrition in early childhood and nutrition and lifestyle among shift workers. She has also research expertise in models of dietetics practice placement education.
She is the Irish lead, collaborating with Dr Katy Horner and Professor Helen Roche, on the Irish Health Research Board-funded EU Joint Programming Initiative 'A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life project: Innovative plAnt Protein fibre and Physical activity solutions to address poor appEtite and prevenT undernutrITion in oldEr adults (APPETITE)'. This project is led by Professor Dorothee Volkert at The Institute for Biomedicine of Aging at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (https://www.iba.med.fau.de/mitarbeitende/professor-dorothee-volkert/) in collaboration with research groups in Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK. Other current projects include investigations of 'the effectiveness of a whey protein oral nutritional supplement combined with an online resistance training programme compared to RT alone on physical function, nutritional status and health-related outcomes in community-dwelling older adults receiving supportive home care who are at risk of sarcopenia', 'nutrition-related cardiometabolic risk in adults with cystic fibrosis' and an evaluation of an Irish Health Service Executive project to support older persons to live independently at home using assistive technology.
Recent research projects include the Joint Programming Initiative Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life EU Malnutrition in the Elderly (MaNuEL) project in collaboration with 22 research groups across seven countries of the EU and New Zealand and a collaboration with the Irish Health Service Executive Primary Care Strategy and Planning and Medicines Management Programmes on a Health Research Board Research Collaborative in Quality and Patient Safety project that resulted in the development of a multi-disciplinary prescribing strategy to support appropriate prescribing of oral nutritional supplements by Irish general practitioners (ONSPres).
Professor Corish has previously collaborated with Professor Roche on the 'Novel Nutritional Solutions to Combat Malnutrition in the Elderly (NUTRIMAL) project, with Professor John Kearney, Technological University Dublin on the 'Pre-schoolers Health Project' and with Assistant Professor Celine Murrin on a number of projects focused on the effects of the food environment on children's diets.
Research funding has come from the Irish Health Service Executive, the Food Safety Promotion Board, safefood, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, the Health Research Board and Nutricia Ireland.
Potential research projects include investigation of malnutrition, sarcopenia and frailty in older adults in the broad variety of settings in which it occurs and potential interventions to prevent or mitigate their development.