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Clare worked as Consultant Dietitian at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust specialising in working with oncology patients for over 35 years.
She led the Therapy Research at the Royal Marsden, encouraging and supporting Allied Health Professionals to undertake research and was the Nutrition lead for the Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden Biomedical Research Centre with the aim of supporting more research work in this area.. Clare is a member of the NIHR Cancer and Nutrition Collaboration and the lead for the Living with and Beyond Cancer research workstream. She was co-chair of the Nutrition working group in the Prehabilitation for people with cancer report published in July 2019.
She has published numerous research articles on nutrition and cancer and the rehabilitation needs of people with cancer. Clare has published a textbook entitled Nutrition and Cancer and is author of the Royal Marsden Cancer Cookbook.
She was awarded a Fellowship of the British Dietetic Association in 2016. She is the Alliance Officer for the BDA Oncology Specialist Group and a committee member of the European Specialist Dietetic Network for the European Federation of the Association of Dietitians.
Krishna Kholia Parmar currently works as a Macmillan Dietitian at University Hospitals Birmingham. She is very passionate about prehabiliation within cancer caner and has helped set up a prehabilitation sub-group of the BDA Oncology specialist group. She is working on a number of prehab project including Fit4Surgery and a national prehab scoping survey. She has also recently completed her MSc dissertation looking at preoperative nutrition in Laryngectomy patients.
Lucy Eldridge is the Associate Lead of Therapies, Professional Lead for Dietetics at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust (RMH), this includes clinical, operational and strategic responsibilities and has worked there since 2011. She continues to work clinically across the tumour groups. Prior to joining RMH she worked for 15 years at Barts and the London NHS Trust working within the field of Oncology and Palliative care. As part of this role she also set up and developed the dietetic service at St Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney. She has an MSc in Cancer Care. In 2023 she was awarded the IBEX fellowship award by the BDA for her contribution to the field of clinical nutrition and oncology.
Currently she is the Education Officer for the British Dietetic Association (BDA) Oncology Specialist Group, having previously been the chair for 4 years. She works on national initiatives with National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), World Cancer Research Fund and Macmillan, and currently represents dietetics on the ACCEnD program. She is the co chair of the Professionals work stream for the Cancer and Nutrition NIHR infrastructure collaboration.
She has worked with charities and other agencies updating and designing patient literature. She has spoken at local, national and international conferences on a variety of topics relating to cancer and/or palliative care. She has written articles and chapters on nutrition, cancer and palliative care, and a chapter on the psychosocial influences on food choice of cancer patients.
In 2023 she was awarded the IBEX fellowship award by the BDA for her contribution to the field of clinical nutrition and oncology.