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Elisabet Rothenberg, registered dietitian and assistant professor in the department of health sciences at the University of Kristianstad, where she has been employed since 2014. In 1997, she defended her dissertation at Gothenburg University on the subject ”Nutrition in the elderly. Dietary intake and dietary assessment methods”. Prior to her current role, she was Chief Dietitian (1997-2010) and worked as an Operational Developer focusing on patient safety at Sahlgrenska Hospital. In addition, Elisabet has extensive experience of clinical work within elderly care.
Since 2016, Elisabet has been chairman of SWESPEN https://www.swespen.se/ , the Swedish branch of the European Nutrition Organization ESPEN (European Society of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism). She is also a member of the ESPEN council https://www.espen.org/ and participates in the development of guidelines for clinical nutrition.
Elisabet has a senior role in the Swedish Dietitian Organization (DRF), an organisation she chaired for 16 years. She is an active participant in the European Federation of Dietitians' Associations (EFAD) http://www.efad.org/en-us/home/ work and in the international expert group for an American dietitian organization, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) https://www.eatright.org/ work with SNOMED CT https://www.snomed.org/ .
Elisabet’s subject of research is in the field of Geriatric Nutrition: Energy & Nutritional requirements and body composition, in relation to health during aging. Elisabet is active in the research group Center for Aging and Health (Age Cap) https://www.gu.se/en/agecap where she studies the connection between nutrition, body composition and physical function from the database provided by the Gothenburg H70 birth cohort studies.
Currently, Elisabet is responsible for the Forte-funded project “Senior alert - a means for better care in collaboration (SeSAM) https://www.senioralert.se/forskning/sesam/ .
During a period of four years, the research group will conduct four sub-studies to study factors that build support and obstacles for “Senior alert”. The aim of the project is to develop an efficient and powerful care prevention process and model which promotes successful collaboration between different stakeholders.
The project is funded under Forte’s division "Care and care in collaboration - for an equal, participatory and dignified aging in 2021".
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Antal artiklar 55 77
H-index 27 23 25
I10-index 48
Citations 4984 2521
Publications
88 Abstracts
77 Peer reviewed papers
46 Text book chapters
91 Audiovisual material, reports, information material and web pages
38 Popular Science and Newspaper articles
2 Reviews
1 Editorial
2 Scientific reports for The National Board of Health and Welfare in collaboration with other authors
2 Scientific reports for National Food Agency
1 Scientific report the Institute for Scientific Information on Coffee (ISIC)
1 Scientific report RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB
Referee
Reviewed 91 papers for 31 different peer-reviewed journals
Editoria board
Dietist Aktuellt 2004 - 2019
Guest editor Nutrients 2020
Editor
4 Textbooks
Currently I have a position as assistant professor at Kristianstad University at department of Food and Meal Science with responsibility for the part of the education within food and meal science concerning nutrition and health.
I have been president of the Swedish Association of Clinical Dietitians for 16 years. I have an assignment as president in SWESPEN the Swedish branch of the European Society of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism. I also lead of a specialist network of geriatric dietitians in Europe on the behalf of the European Federation of Associations of Dietitians (EFAD). I am a member of the National Food Agencys´ expert group on nutrition and public health and expert in The National Board of Health and Welfare project studying the scientific evidence for hospital diets.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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