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Dimitrios Koutoukidis

RD PhD MSc AFHEA


Senior Research Fellow

Diet, Obesity, and Behavioural Sciences

I am a dietitian and my research focuses on testing how behavioural science can change dietary intake and improve outcomes for patients with obesity-related diseases. 

In 2017, I completed my PhD in Nutrition, Dietetics, and Behavioural Sciences at University College London funded by the UCL Grand Challenges. For my PhD, I adapted a theory-based behaviour change intervention for endometrial cancer survivors and piloted it in a randomised controlled trial. As a post-doc at UCL, I worked in two clinical trials of dietary and physical activity interventions in cancer survivors.  

Funded by NIHR, I am currently building a programme of work on weight loss for the treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. This works uses a variety of approaches, such as systematic reviews, meta-analyses, observational analyses, and clinical trials of low-energy diets.