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Join us to celebrate a special milestone for our new professors and hear about their inspiring career journeys. Doors for this event will open on 16.45 (BST), with the lectures to commence at 16.50. A drinks reception will be held at 17.30 immediately after the lecture.

Professor Miranda Lomer MBE

Improving the lives of people with gut disorders through diet

Abstract

Professor Miranda Lomer will take you on a journey through her career to demonstrate how dietary changes have positively impacted the quality of life for people where gut symptoms are a huge burden. She will describe how different foods and special diets affect the gut and how her research and clinical practice has shaped some NHS services and changed the lives of many for the better.

Biography

Miranda Lomer is a Consultant Dietitian in Gastroenterology at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals, London and has an adjunct appointment as Professor of Dietetics in Gastroenterology at King’s College London. She qualified as a dietitian in 1990 and in 2002, completed a PhD on dietary microparticles and Crohn’s disease.

Professor Lomer’s passion is evident, bringing research and education into her day-to-day clinical practice, particularly in inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis) and disorders of gut-brain interaction (e.g. irritable bowel syndrome). She is Editor of a book entitled Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics in Gastroenterology. She gave the BDA Elsie Widdowson Lecture in 2014 as recognition of her international impact in dietetics. In 2016, Professor Lomer was awarded an MBE for services to dietetics and gastroenterology.