Shelley Wilkinson

Shelley is passionate about helping women and couples achieve their goal of starting a family through optimising their health to improve their fertility, their pregnancy, and beyond. She achieves this through tailoring knowledge from the scientific research to individual’s situations and preferences.

Shelley has worked as a dietitian since 1995. She specialises in the area of women’s health, including lifestyle change to improve fertility, nutrition for the healthiest pregnancy possible, and practical advice for new mums.

She was the Senior Research Dietitian at the Mater Mothers Hospital for 12 years and is now a service development and redesign expert in the Mater Mothers’ Department of Obstetric Medicine. She also works part time an Associate Professor in the UQ School of Pharmacy as a Senior Principal Research Fellow on the RECARD project and is the Director and Principal Dietitian at Lifestyle Maternity.

Shelley's main research interests include:

Implementation Science and Translating Research into Practice
Health service redesign through co-creation
Nutrition and maternal health ('The first 1000 days')
Digital technologies and platforms to facilitate behaviour change

Shelley is an Associate Editor for Dietitians Australia’s national journal, Nutrition and Dietetics. In 2010, Shelley received Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian status as recognition of her professional leadership and expertise. The high quality of her research has been recognised with six awards in the field of Evidence-Based Practice and Clinical Research.

With 38 peer reviewed publications in the past 5 years, she has an h-index of 23 and her Field-Weighted Citation Impact score (1.48) is above average for her discipline, particularly in the areas of Gestational Diabetes (FWCI 2.89), Digital Health (FWCI 3.57), Intestinal flora (FWCI 4.13), and Social Media (FWCI 8.94).