Associate Professor
Helen MacLaughlin
Faculty of Health,
School of Exercise & Nutrition Sciences
Biography
Dr Helen MacLaughlin is an Associate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics at QUT and Advanced Clinician Researcher at Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Metro North Hospital and Health Services, Queensland Health. She has over 20 years' experience as a clinical dietitian, focusing on nutritional interventions for patients with kidney disease. She was awarded her PhD from King's College London in 2013, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship as a National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) and Health Education England (HEE) Clinical Lecturer, jointly at King's College London and King's College Hospital in London, UK. Her research focus is on clinical trials for dietary and lifestyle interventions to slow the progression of chronic kidney disease, and in nutritional epidemiology, particularly in using clinical and research datasets to examine the impact of obesity and nutritional factors on renal and cardiovascular disease risk outcomes.Personal details
Positions
- Associate Professor (Nutrition and Dietetics)/Advanced Clinician Researcher
Faculty of Health,
School of Exercise & Nutrition Sciences
Keywords
nutrition assessment, chronic kidney disease, acute kidney injury, dietary interventions, nutritional epidemiology
Research field
Nutrition and dietetics, Allied health and rehabilitation science, Health services and systems
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy - Nutritional Sciences (King's College London)
- Health Science (Nutrition and Dietetics) (Queensland University of Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
Accredited Practicing Dietitian - Dietitians Association of Australia Member - Dietitians Association of Australia Member - Australasian Kidney Trials Network - Chronic Kidney Disease group
Publications
- MacLaughlin, H., Friedman, A. & Ikizler, T. (2022). Nutrition in Kidney Disease: Core Curriculum 2022. American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 79(3), 437–449. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/227311
- MacLaughlin, H., Pike, M., Selby, N., Siew, E., Chinchilli, V., Guide, A., Stewart, T., Himmelfarb, J., Go, A., Parikh, C., Ghahramani, N., Kaufman, J., Ikizler, T., Robinson-Cohen, C. & other, a. (2021). Body mass index and chronic kidney disease outcomes after acute kidney injury: a prospective matched cohort study. BMC Nephrology, 22. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/212162
- Brown, T., Williams, H., Mafrici, B., Jackson, H., Johansson, L., Willingham, F., McIntosh, A. & MacLaughlin, H. (2021). Dietary interventions with dietitian involvement in adults with chronic kidney disease: A systematic review. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 34(4), 747–757. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/209615
- Conley, M., McFarlane, C., Johnson, D., Kelly, J., Campbell, K. & MacLaughlin, H. (2021). Interventions for weight loss in people with chronic kidney disease who are overweight or obese. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2021(3). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/212090
- Sandhu, S., Angel, C., Campbell, K., Hickman, I. & Maclaughlin, H. (2021). Standardised outcome reporting for the nutrition management of complex chronic disease: A rapid review. Nutrients, 13(10). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/227312
- MacLaughlin, H. & Campbell, K. (2019). Obesity as a barrier to kidney transplantation: Time to eliminate the body weight bias? Seminars in Dialysis, 32(3), 219–222. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/129191
- MacLaughlin, H., Twomey, J., Saunt, R., Blain, S., Campbell, K. & Emery, P. (2018). The nutrition impact symptoms (NIS) score detects malnutrition risk in patients admitted to nephrology wards. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 31(5), 683–688. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/129195
- Greenwood, S., Koufaki, P., Mercer, T., MacLaughlin, H., Rush, R., Lindup, H., O'Connor, E., Jones, C., Hendry, B., Macdougall, I. & Cairns, H. (2015). Effect of Exercise Training on Estimated GFR, Vascular Health, and Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Patients With CKD: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 65(3), 425–434. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/129205
- MacLaughlin, H., Hall, W., Patel, A., Blacklock, R., Swift, P., Phanish, M., Dew, T., Chowdhury, P., Sanders, T. & Macdougall, I. (2014). Weight loss, adipokines, and quality of life after sleeve gastrectomy in obese patients with stages 3-4 CKD: A randomized controlled pilot study. American Journal of Kidney Diseases, 64(4), 660–663. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/129206
- MacLaughlin, H., Hall, W., Patel, A. & Macdougall, I. (2012). Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy is a Novel and Effective Treatment for Obesity in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease. Obesity Surgery, 22(1), 119–123. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/129212
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Helen, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2018
- Details
- Winner - Walls Bursary
- Type
- Recipient of a Nationally Competitive Research Fellowship
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- awarded Clinical Lectureship postdoctoral fellowship
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Weight loss interventions for the management of obesity in chronic kidney disease (CKD)
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Professor Neil King - Improving Diet Quality in Adults with Chronic Kidney Disease
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Lynda Ross, Professor Neil King, Associate Professor Mary Hannan-Jones - Combined medical and dietetic interventions for acne management: observational cohort study
MPhil, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Kelly Stewart, Professor Ian Stewart
Supervision topics
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.