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I am a Research Fellow based in the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) based in the Leicester Diabetes Centre Leicester General Hospital. My research focuses on multiple long-term conditions and multimorbidity with a specific interest in frailty sarcopenia and kidney disease. I have a background in exercise physiology and I am interested in the role of lifestyle interventions in those living with chronic disease. I am a member of the Global Renal Exercise Group Organising Committee Member (Scientific Director) and UK ‘Exercise and Lifestyle’ CSG having recently co-authored the UKKA Exercise and lifestyle CPG in kidney disease. I am a contributor to the ‘Movement for Movement’’ resources and ‘Physical Activity: A Guide for Health Practitioners’ on kidney disease. I have been an invited presented to meetings around the world. I contribute teaching to the Â鶹ÊÓƵ and Loughborough University and have external examined grants and postgraduate theses for UK and international institutions. I am a peer-reviewer for numerous high impact journals.

• Research design and patient-based outcome measurement science, including development/evaluation
• Consequences of aberrant body composition (sarcopenia, cachexia, and obesity) on health, function, and well-being
• Lifestyle and exercise/physical activity medicine: how adjunct treatment, such as lifestyle, can influence health and performance
• The physiological and pathological mechanisms of chronic and hypokinetic conditions
• Role of interventions to improve physical function, disability, and quality of life in chronic disease populations
• Incorporating a ‘bench to bedside to population’ approach to health research

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All publications cab be found at https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=7lhuMIcAAAAJ&hl=en 

I currently supervise several PhD students and have supervised several BSc. and MSc. students to completion. I am willing to supervise prospective students with an interest in multimorbidity chronic disease lifestyle exercise and physical activity sarcopenia and frailty.

Current PhD students:

• Abi Burton, Â鶹ÊÓƵ, PhD, 2024 – Present. Primary supervisor (‘Sarcopenia as a biomarker for people with multiple long-term conditions: an epidemiological perspective’). Expected submission Sept 2027
• Jude Brigham, Â鶹ÊÓƵ, PhD, 2025 – Present. Co-supervisor (‘Novel nutritional and pharmacological interventions to optimise healthy weight loss in older adults with obesity’). Expected submission Sept 2028
• Matt Lee, Â鶹ÊÓƵ, PhD, 2021 – Present. Co-supervisor (‘The Impact of Achilles Tendinopathy and the relevance of Ultrasound Tissue Characteristics to the Elite Rugby Player’). Expected submission Sept 2028
• Jasmine Foster, Â鶹ÊÓƵ, PhD, 2023 – Present. Co-supervisor (‘Understanding how resolution physiology influences skeletal muscle endotype in those with multiple long-term conditions (MLTCs)’). Expected submission Sept 2026
• Faith Omoregie, Â鶹ÊÓƵ, PhD, 2024 – Present. Co-supervisor (‘Understanding the presentation of frailty in those with multiple long-term conditions and the effect of rehabilitation’). Expected submission Sept 2027

Completed PhD students:

• Noemi Vadaszy, Â鶹ÊÓƵ, PhD, 2019 - Present. Co-supervisor with Prof. AC Smith (‘Home-based exercise in CKD’)
• Ashkon Ardavani, Â鶹ÊÓƵ, PhD, 2021 – Present. Primary supervisor with Dr Ffion Curtis and Prof Kamlesh Khunti (‘Risk factor prevention for developing CKD in multi-ethnic groups living with multimorbidity’)

Lecturer

Leicester Diabetes Centre, Â鶹ÊÓƵ, 2025 – Present

• Module co-lead for MD7526 (Dissertation module, MSc. Diabetes)
• Lecturer on MD7519 (Prevention, Obesity and Diabetes module, MSc. Diabetes)
• Supervisor for BS3084 Research Projects, BSc. Clinical Sciences
• Personal tutor (MSc. Diabetes)

• Global Renal Exercise Group Organising Committee Member (Scientific Director)
• MRC-NIHR Trials Methodology Research Partnership (Outcomes) Working Group
• Global Leadership Initiative in Sarcopenia (GLIS) – invited member
• Society of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Wasting Disorders (Associate member #10750)
• UKKA (Scientist)

External grant reviewer: Kidney Research UK; FIN-RER- Health Research Programme of the Emilia-Romagna Bottom-up Projects-Call; Abstract reviewer: UK Kidney Week conference; Session chairs: UK Kidney Week; Co-chair: UKKA; External consultant: Baxter Ltd., Regeneron 

• Â鶹ÊÓƵ Merit Award 2020 for outstanding excellence and achievement in the previous year.
• ‘Runner-up best oral’. Australian and New Zealand Society for Sarcopenia and Frailty Research (ANZSSFR), 2023
• ‘Best postgraduate student supervisor’ nomination, Â鶹ÊÓƵ, 2023
• ‘Best poster presentation’ at UK Kidney Week 2023 (Measurement properties of performance-based measures to assess physical function in chronic kidney disease: recommendations for use from a COSMIN systematic review), Newport, 2023
• Â鶹ÊÓƵ Citizen Recognition Scheme 2023 (for my work within the College of Life Sciences’ Mirror College Leadership Team)
• Association of Academic Physiatrists Excellence in Research Writing Award 2019 for article on “The ‘minimum clinically important difference’ in frequently reported objective physical function tests following a 12-week renal rehabilitation exercise intervention in non-dialysis chronic kidney disease.”
• Lockwood Award 2017 Renal Association 2017. For significant contribution to renal medicine research
• Travel Grant European Renal Association- European Dialysis Transplant Association Congress 2017 Madrid. Awarded as shortlisted for one of the “best abstracts presented by young authors”. 

• Ph.D Clinical Exercise and Health Physiology
• Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE) Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy’
• B.Sc. (with Honours) Sport and Exercise Science