A/Prof Barbara Meyer

BSc(Hons), Monash, RNutr, PhD Monash

Positions:

• Associate Professor in the School of Health Sciences
• Director, Metabolic Research Centre

Teaching:

• Undergraduate nutrition and pathophysiology
• Undergraduate and postgraduate research student supervision

Research Interests:

• Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in the Australian diet  (references 2, 10 and 11) and validation of food frequency questionnaire to measure polyunsaturated fat intake (reference 3)
• Relationship of omega-3 to health and disease including cardiovascular disease, depression, post-natal depression (reference 1), schizophrenia and complicated pregnancies such as pre-eclampsia  
• Specific foods (eg soy foods), nutrients in foods/supplements (eg omega-3) and their ability to reduce cardiovascular risk factors in human randomised controlled trials.
• Dyslipidaemia, in particular intermediate density lipoprotein (IDL), the IDL subpopulations, and their relationship to the risk of developing atherosclerosis (reference 7)

Affiliations:

• Nutrition Society of Australia
             • President Elect
             • Council member
             • Wollongong Group Member
• Australian Atherosclerosis Society (AAS) member
• International Society of Atheroscierosis member
• International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids (ISSFAL) member
• Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute Member

Publications:

Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date.

Top Publications:

1.  Makrides M, Gibson RA, McPhee AJ, Yelland L, Quinlivan J, Ryan P, Doyle LW, Anderson P, Else PL, Meyer BJ, Colditz P, Pritchard M, et al.  Effect of DHA supplementation during pregnancy on maternal depression and neurodevelopment of young children.  JAMA 2010;304(15)1675-1683.
2.  Meyer BJ, Kolanu N.  Australian children are not consuming enough long chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids for optimal health.  Nutrition 2010 (accepted).
3.  Swierk M, Williams PA, Wilcox J, Russell K, Meyer BJ.  Validation of an Australian electronic food frequency questionnaire to measure polyunsaturated fatty acid intake.  Nutrition 2010 (accepted).
4. Thorp AA, Howe PRC, Mori TA, Coates AM, Buckley JD, Hodgson J, Mansour J, Meyer BJ.  Soy food consumption does not lower LDL cholesterol in either equol or nonequol producers.  Am J Clin Nutr 2008;88:298-304.
5. Sullivan BL, Brown J, Williams PG, Meyer BJ.  Dietary validation of a new food frequency questionnaire that estimates long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids.  British Journal of Nutrition  2008;99:660-666.
6. Grenyer BFS, Crowe T, Meyer B, Owen AJ, Grigonis-Deane EM, Caputi P, Howe PRC.  Fish oil supplementation in the treatment of major depression: A randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry 2007;31:1393-1396.
7.  Meyer BJ, Duvillard L, Owen AJ, Packard CJ, Caslake MJ.  Fractionation of cholesteryl ester rich intermediate density lipoprotein subpopulations by chondroitin sulphate.  Atherosclerosis 2007 Dec 195(2):e28-34 Epub 2007 Mar 6.
8. Stewart F, Rodie VA, Ramsay JE, Greer IA, Freeman DJ, Meyer BJ.  Longitudinal assessment of erythrocyte fatty acid composition and concentration throughout pregnancy and in the post partum period.  Lipids  2007;42(4):335-344.
9. Giacco R, Cuomo V, Vessby B, Uusitupa M, Hermansen K, Meyer BJ, Riccardi G, Rivellese AA. KANWU Study Group.  Fish oil, insulin metabolism and glucose tolerance in healthy people: is there any effect in relation to the type of background diet and habitual dietary intake of n-6 and n-3 fatty acids?  Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases 2007;17:572-580.
10.  Howe PRC, Meyer BJ, Record S, Baghurst K. Dietary intake of long chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids: contribution of meat sources. Nutrition. 2006;22(1):47-53.
11.  Meyer BJ, Mann NJ, Lewis JL, Milligan GC, Sinclair AJ, Howe PRC. Dietary intakes and food sources of omega-6 and omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids.  Lipids 2003:38;391-398.

Email:  barbara_meyer@uow.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 4221 3459
Office: B41.316