Emma Ridley

I am currently a Senior Research Fellow and the Nutrition Program Manager at the ANZIC-RC (Monash University) where I am responsible for the development and leadership of the critical care nutrition research program. I completed my PhD in 2018 titled “Clinical and functional consequences of energy provided by nutrition in critically ill adults”. My research interests include understanding the optimum way to determine energy requirements in the critically ill, including the clinical application of indirect calorimetry, as well as the effect of optimal nutrition delivery on short and long-term outcomes in ICU patients. I also continue to practice as a clinical dietitian in the ICU at The Alfred Hospital.
I am a high achiever and my emerging leadership capabilities were recognised when I was one of 100 Australians to receive a Churchill Fellowship in 2012 and I received a partial scholarship in 2014 for the Advanced Leadership Program run by Women and Leadership Australia. I have international and national recognition as a critical care dietitian and have delivered over 25 invited presentations, authored 31 publications, served on multiple conference organising committees and grant review panels and been the recipient of $6.3 million dollars of research funding with the various teams I work with, including a recent investigator initiated industry grant of $2.3 million as a CIA for follow up work which relates to my PhD.