Best Practice Guidelines for Remote Paediatric Consultations

Luise Marino, PhD, RD

Clinical Academic Paediatric Dietitian
Southampton Children’s Hospital
Research & Development Divisional Lead
Southampton, Hampshire, UK

Luise joined Southampton Children’s Hospital in 2013, working clinically in Neonatal / Paediatric Intensive Care and Cardiology. Prior to this she spent 15 years working in various academic hospitals in South Africa, of which four years were spent as the dietetic manager at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, in Cape Town. Following her return to the UK, she completed a PhD fellowship at Imperial College London, considering the role of HSP70 and the relationship to glutamine in the critically ill child. Luise has a HEE/NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic Fellowship considering “Growth and nutrition of infants with congenital heart disease: development of guidelines and a digital home monitoring programme to support families”. She is the current Chair of the British Dietetic Association Paediatric Cardiology Interest Group. Luise has published several peer reviewed articles and book chapters and is involved in collaborative research projects within the Children’s Hospital. Luise’s research interest aims to characterise the nutritional journey of infants and children with acute and chronic disease with a focus on those with congenital heart disease, and how the development of pragmatic pathways for nutritional rehabilitation could promote healthy growth and reduce parental stress.

Rosan Meyer, PhD, RD

Specialist Paediatric Dietitian
Honorary Senior Lecturer, Imperial College, London
Visiting Professor, KU Leuven, Belgium and Winchester University 

Rosan completed her degree in dietetics in South Africa in 1996 and finished her MSc in 2004 and PhD at Imperial College London in 2008. She was the principal research dietitian at Great Ormond Street Hospital until December 2015, and after this worked with the allergy team at St. Thomas’ Hospital until 2018.                           

Rosan has a busy paediatric dietetic practice in London specialising in food hypersensitivity and aversive eating and has published numerous articles and books. She is currently an honorary reader and module leader for the Food Hypersensitivity Module of the MSc in Allergy at Imperial College and is visiting Professor at KU Leuven on their MSc on Deglutology and the University of Winchester on their anthropometry and ARFID module. She is also the chair of the European Academy of Allergy & Clinical Immunology (EAACI) Allied Health and Primary Section, and chair of the International Network for Diet and Nutrition in Allergy (INDANA) and is a Trustee for ARFID Awareness UK.

Lisa Cooke, MA, BSc, RD

Head of Paediatric Dietetics
Nutrition and SALT Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Lisa Cooke is the Head of Paediatric Dietetics, Nutrition and SALT at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children. She has worked in tertiary level paediatrics for many years and has led the specialist team in Bristol for 20 years. She has extensive experience and has covered most areas of paediatric dietetics. She has recently studied to be able to perform physical assessments in children to enhance and extend her scope of practice.                      

Lisa is passionate about paediatric dietetics and has a strong drive to make clinical research everyday practice for the profession. She has volunteered with charities overseas, supporting good nutritional practice in resource limited settings, published in books, journals and presented at academic conferences. She has been part of the course team who deliver the unique Masters in Paediatric Dietetics since its inception. She volunteers as a member of the Paediatric Specialist group of the British Dietetic Association and currently sits as the policy officer on the committee. She currently works clinically within the specialities of paediatric HIV and Allergy.