One Year in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Key Learnings for Paediatric Dietetic Practice

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, and journals, and presented at academic conferences. She has been part of the course team that delivered 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 specialties of Paediatric HIV and Allergy.

Rosan Meyer completed her degree in Dietetics in South Africa and specialised in paediatric nutrition in the UK. In 2004, she finished her MSc in Paediatric Nutrition, and in 2008 her PhD at Imperial College London. She was the principal research dietitian at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children until December 2015, leading a project on the impact of gastrointestinal food allergies on children and their families, after this worked with the allergy team at St. Thomas’ Hospital as a research dietitian until 2018. In addition, she has a busy paediatric dietetic practice specialising in food allergy, feeding difficulties, and faltering growth in London. 

Rosan has published numerous articles, and book chapters and has recently co-authored the DPG pocket guide on paediatric nutrition. Her specialist interest lies in paediatric food allergy, feeding difficulties, and growth and she has also taken a keen interest in the environmental sustainability of paediatric nutrition advice. 

She is currently module leader for the Food Hypersensitivity Module that forms part of the MSc in Allergy at Imperial College London and is an honorary senior lecturer in paediatrics at the same university. She is also a visiting Professor at KU Leuven, Belgium, on their MSc on Deglutology (swallow disorders). She is the chair of the European Section of the International Network for Diet and Allergy, secretary of the Allied Health and Primary Care Section of EAACI, and member of several EAACI task forces on food allergy.