Dr. Cathy Breen

Cathy qualified from TCD/DIT with a BSc (Human Nutrition and Dietetics) in 2002. She has worked as a Senior Dietitian specialising in diabetes and weight management in the Endocrine Service, St Columcille’s Hospital, Loughlinstown, Co Dublin since 2003. She has represented the INDI on the Irish National Obesity Taskforce Treatment Algorithm- and Nutrition-sub groups, and RCPI Policy Groups on Obesity and a National Type 1 Diabetes Guideline. She has been involved with DAFNE both as an educator and as a researcher since 2004 and led the European Federation of Associations of Dietitians Diabetes Specialist Network from 2011-2013.

Her research interests include the translation of evidence to clinical practice in weight and diabetes management, and she completed her PhD in the area in 2016 – exploring Type 2 diabetes patients’ understanding and use of carbohydrate in the management of their diabetes. Following on from this she was invited to sit on Diabetes UK’s Nutrition Guideline Committee which is currently undertaking a systematic review for a 2018 update on the nutritional management of Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.