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Philip Calder, Hannah Hunter, Chandanee Kotecha, Sarah Berry and Elaine Anderson answer questions that our viewers posted following the other talks.
Topics include:
- immunity
- vitamins
- supplements
- probiotics
- guidelines
About the speakers
Philip Calder
Philip is Professor of Nutritional Immunology in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton. He is an internationally recognised researcher in two related areas: 1) the metabolism and functionality of fatty acids, with an emphasis on the roles of omega-3 fatty acids, and 2) the influence of diet and nutrients on the immune and inflammatory responses.
His research covers the life course from pre-conception to old age and includes studies in model systems and in healthy humans and patients.
Hannah Hunter
Affiliation: Guy's and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
Hannah is a specialist allergy dietitian at Guy's Hospital in London, where she splits her time between outpatient clinics, research, and health professional education. She has over a decade of experience helping people manage their sensitivities to food. Hannah’s personal experience with food allergy gives her a unique perspective on the challenges people face.
Her research interests include peanut allergy, pollen food syndrome and lipid transfer protein (LTP) allergy. She recently completed her MSc in Allergy at Imperial College London with a research project investigating a novel dietary intervention for the management of eosinophilic oesophagitis (EoE).
She is the PR Officer for the BDA Food Allergy Specialist Group and is the dietetic representative for the BSACI council. In addition she contributes to national guidelines, including pollen food syndrome and EoE.
Dr Sarah Berry
Dr Sarah Berry is a Reader in Nutritional Sciences at King’s College London. Her research interests relate to the influence of dietary components on markers of cardiovascular disease risk, with a particular focus on precision nutrition.
Sarah is the lead nutritional scientist on the PREDICT programme, assessing the genetic, metabolic, metagenomic, and meal-dependent effects on metabolic responses to food in >3,000 individuals in the UK and US.
She is also lead of the Diet and Lifestyle Survey in the COVID Symptom Study, with diet and lifestyle data on 1.1 million people pre- and during the pandemic.
Elaine Anderson
Elaine has been a dietitian for over 12 years and has experience in a variety of areas including neurorehabilitation, gastroenterology, oncology, mental health and palliative care.
She is currently living with Long Covid and has first-hand experience of the challenges and symptoms faced by those who have the condition.
In addition to her NHS work, she runs Care 4 Nutrition, a workplace health and online nutrition consultancy. She helps businesses improve the health of their employees through nutrition interventions. She also assists individuals to find an enjoyable and sustainable way of eating that supports current health concerns and long-term wellbeing.
She can be contacted via email [email protected] or via LinkedIn.