Smiles all round today & another #NICHEPhD success😁 Congrats to orlagh feehan who successfully defended her #PhD at viva today on '#VitaminD & musculoskeletal health in care home residents'. Thank you to the panel: Dr O'Sullivan from Trinity College Dublin, Dr Mary McCann, Alison Gallagher

What a privilege to be a ‘successful’ PhD supervisor for the fantastic orlagh feehan who successfully defended her PhD today. 😀 What a result given the obstacles and pressures you have faced in the last 3 years!! #vitaminD

An honour to be invited to receive my rising star in nutrition award yesterday in London as part of the Nutrition Society 80th anniversary. And to share it alongside 2 fellow Irish section members Holly Neill & Laura Kirwan made it even more special 😊 NICHE UCDFood&Health

Excellent opportunity for any undergraduate nutrition students #nutritionjobs

🆕️ RESEARCH | orlagh feehan et al. shows 1st evidence of high #vitaminD deficiency & insufficiency in care home residents in NI 🧓 ⬆️ vitamin D status associated with ⬆️ supplement use 💊 & ⬇️ bone turnover 🦴 #NICHEvitD #NICHEageing Dr David J Armstrong mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/1…

Congrats orlagh feehan on your 1st first author paper Nutrients MDPI 👏👏👏 really important #VitaminD data & a good example of why we shouldn't only report the mean/median in #nutrition #science

Delighted to get this important research published 🎊 thank you to all the team as always 😊 Kirsty Pourshahidi Emeir Mc Sorley Dr David J Armstrong Pamela Magee Laura Beggan @diegocobice Sean Strain

Celebrating our #NICHEphd success today with Dr's Holly Neill Dr Anna Monaghan Michelle Clements Joanna M Jurek orlagh feehan Laura Beggan 🎓🎓 such a lovely day... bigs CONGRATS to these amazing researchers!! #UUClassOf2022 #ProudOfUU

A pleasure to welcome care home managers, nurses, care staff, catering teams & HCPs from across NI to our managing dysphagia in a care home setting event. Excellent presentations from expert dysphagia chef Niamh Condon Dining with Dignity(Niamh Condon) & a variety of HCPs, thank you 😊 #Dysphagia

3/4 PhD chapters now published 🥳 A systematic review of vitamin D deficiency in nursing home residents. NICHE Emeir Mc Sorley Dr David J Armstrong Pamela Magee Kirsty Pourshahidi pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36367832/

*2nd new paper alert* 1st ever literature review of vitamin D studies on Island of Ireland by my PhD student Dr Helena Scully ANutr Well done Helena - this was a huge amount of work and now an excellent resource for all! cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Nutrition Society student member Michelle Clements, PhD researcher at NICHE, is attending Parliament to present her biosciences research to a range of politicians and a panel of expert judges Good luck Michelle! ScienceinParliament #Stem4Brit

Be quick! Just over a week left to register for our Nutrition and Health conference on 21st March. Chaired by Prof Strain Strain NICHE Ulster University More details & booking @ dairycouncil.co.uk/news/2023/02/n… @crowe_dentist Ciaran Forde Claire McEvoy RD @marion_mh

March 13th -17th is Nutrition & Hydration Week. The aim of Nutrition & Hydration Week is to highlight, promote & celebrate improvements in the provision of nutrition and hydration. Stay tuned as we will be sharing resources for you and your patients throughout this week.

⏰REMINDER!! Don't miss your chance to sign up to this excellent event, with a great line of of topics/speakers 👇

#NHWEEK23 Prof David Armstrong Dr David J Armstrong & Dr Sandra Iuliano talk about her research on improving dairy food intake for older people in residential care. Interview via dairycouncil.co.uk/news/2023/01/i… Dr Iuliano is also speaking at our conference next week 🤓

'#vitaminD deficiency is highly prevalent in nursing home residents' Conclusion of new review In #NutritionReviews Nutrition Reviews From NICHE This shouldn't be surprising Nursing home residents often have multiple risk factors for #vitaminDdeficiency Monitor/#supplement!

Great work from orlagh feehan and the team. So many ‘easy wins’ out there in improving health of people in residential care if funded properly

🎓 2023 #UlsterFND Prize Winners 🎓 Congratulations to this year's Best Overall BSc Dietetics students, awarded the NutriciaHCP - Ireland prizes: 🥇María José Maydana Rey 🥈 Maureen Byrne #WeAreUU | #ProudOfUU

Last night 75 dietitians from across Northern Ireland joined us at the Merchant Hotel Belfast for our hot topics in paediatric and adult dietetics event, thank you to everyone that came and to our fantastic speakers 🥳 NutriciaHCP - Ireland Danone British Dietetic Association