Michelle is inspired to support CNELM achieve its vision of leading the integration of personalised nutrition into healthcare services worldwide. She strives to develop the evidence base to support personalised nutrition practice through her academic work, research supervision, post-doctoral research, and publication. Michelle completed a Doctorate in Professional Studies (DProf) in 2019, titled “Leading transformation in Personalised Nutrition Practice”. Her doctoral research included the construction of clinical tools to enable the development of a new evidence base for personalised nutrition practice in obesity management. Michelle continues to work on the development of robust translational bioinformatics tools, using pathophysiological reasoning and systems biology approaches, as they are key to achieving evidence based personalised nutrition practice. Michelle thoroughly enjoys supporting students to achieve their aspirations and goals. Her passion comes from overcoming her own health issues using nutrition.

Michelle is the Academic Team Director and Clinical Director at CNELM and acts as Institution Link Tutor for degree programmes validated by Middlesex University. She is Programme Leader and Manager for the BSc Hons Nutritional Science, Lecturer and Research Supervisor. Michelle is a marker and assessor across programmes. She is a member of the Senior Academic and Senior Management Teams.