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Biography
Dr Zaremba is a Registered Nutritionist (Nutrition Science, Association for Nutrition UKVRN) with experience in human intervention trials involving appetite. She graduated in 2012 with a BSc Hons degree (first class) in Applied Pharmacology and pursued a career in nutrition research after graduating from her MSc in Public Health Nutrition (with distinction). Dr Zaremba completed her PhD at Queen Margaret University in 2018 and joined the School of Medicine in early 2019 as a Lecturer in Nutrition.
She is an elected member of the Scottish section committee of the Nutrition Society (2022-2025), and Fellow of the Scottish Cancer Prevention Network. Dr Zaremba is member of the AfN Inter-Professional Working Group on Medical Nutrition Education. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, having completed the Academic Practice In Higher Education (PGCAPHE) PGCert at the University of Dundee in 2022.
Research
Prior to joining the School of Medicine, her research interests were around short-term appetite modulation and dietary fibre (oat β-glucan). Whilst working part-time as a Lecturer in Nutrition, she completed a part-time three year post-doctoral research post (2019-2022) with Professor Annie Anderson which focussed on the impact of COVID-19 on primary school lunch provision in Scotland. In addition, Dr Zaremba was involved in secondary analysis of the ActWELL trial and subsequent follow up study.
Dr Zaremba has also worked on evaluating the Living Well with Prostate Cancer course run by Prostate Scotland, a seven week course supporting men living with and beyond prostate cancer.
Her current research interests are around vitamin D supplementation practices in Scottish adults, including at risk groups, and nutrition in medical education.
Teaching
Dr Zaremba is the Year 1 Lead for Student Selected Components (SSCs) and she is the Deputy Convenor for SSCs. Her predominant teaching remit is nutrition education for MBChB students. She develops and delivers interactive face-to-face nutrition teaching across the MBChB curriculum, in addition to ScotGEM years 1 & 2. Outside the MBChB programme, Dr Zaremba delivers nutrition education to year 1 Dentistry BDS students and teaches on the MSc Public Health and MSc Science and Health Communication degrees. She supervises both undergraduate Honours level projects and MSc dissertations. She delivers nutrition and lifestyle focussed sessions to both FY2 and GPST3 trainees in NHS Tayside.
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Areas of expertise
- Nutrition