School of Clinical Medicine, Discipline of Paediatrics & Child Health, UNSW Medicine & Health, University of New South Wales, Australia
Tamarah is the Senior Respiratory Dietitian at Sydney Children’s Hospital. Since 2007, she has worked closely with families of children with CF, noting consistently poor diet quality. This observation led to her 2018 pivotal research on diet quality in children with CF and sparked her ongoing commitment to reshaping the traditional CF legacy diet. The introduction of CFTR modulators heightened the need to update dietary guidelines, motivating her to pursue a PhD focused on this important area.
Her research focuses on three key aims: developing consensus guidelines for the nutritional management of children with CF on elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor; exploring parental perspectives on dietary priorities, barriers, and enablers to transitioning from the legacy CF diet; and co-designing a dietary intervention for primary school-aged children with CF in partnership with their families. Her work holds significant potential to promote healthy aging in people with CF by lowering their risk of chronic diet-related diseases. In 2024, Ms Katz was awarded a prestigious NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarship to support her research.
S10.4- Simplifying Nutrition Interventions in the Setting of HEMT: When and How Do We Do This?
Thursday, October 23, 2025
2:30 PM - 4:30 PM PDT