The UnitEmanuella De Lucia Rolfe
Contact Details
MRC Epidemiology Unit
Institute of Metabolic Science
Box 285
Addenbrooke's Hospital
Hills Road
Cambridge
CB2 0QQ
Tel: +44 (0)1223 769194
Fax: +44 (01223) 330316
email: emanuella.de-lucia-rolfe@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk
Emanuella has a degree in Food Science and Nutrition and an MSc in Public Health Nutrition. During her first degree she had the opportunity to spend her placement year with the EPIC study (European Prospective Investigation of Cancer and nutrition) in Cambridge. After her MSc, she worked for the NGO HelpAge International in Ethiopia where she assessed the nutritional status of adults in 4 Ethiopian Ethnic group. In 2001, for of a short period of time, she worked as a nutritionist for Danone UK, offering nutritional advice and answering questions posed by the public on the possible health benefits associated with Calcium. She joined the unit (the former Diabetes Research Group) in August 2001. She is mainly responsible for the anthropometry and body composition activities in the unit and is a member of the Functional group.
Emanuella is also undertaking a part time PhD in collaboration with Groningen University, the Netherlands and her PhD topic is on: the Epidemiology of abdominal adiposity. She is assessing the validity of ultrasonography to determine abdominal fat compartments in different populations and investigating the role of early life determinants/factors that may influence the accumulation of these fat depositions.
Publications: E de Lucia, F Lemma, F Tesfaye, T Demisse, S Ismail: The use of armspan measurement to assess the nutritional status of adults in four Ethiopian Ethnic groups: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2002) 56, 91-95.
