Elisabet Rothenberg

Background

Elisabet Rothenberg is a registered dietitian. She defended her PhD thesis in 1997. The thesis concerned energy and nutrient intake, food habits and energy expenditure in 70-year olds in a prospective cohort study in Gothenburg. Her special interest is dietary intake and body composition in ageing. She has been working as chief dietitian at Sahlgrenska University Hospital for 10 years. Elisabet Rothenberg has also working clinically with disease related malnutrition in older adults at hospital and nursing homes for many years.

She has been involved in several projects aiming to develop texture modified foods and recently in a triple helix project "Active Ageing - Personalized food and meal solutions for health and quality of life" with aims to identify target groups along with their needs and desires, design foods and meals adapted to the elderly´s needs and preferences. Further, serving and packaging of the meals. The project intends to create value chains for different types of distribution of the foods and meals as well as to include waste management. The project is financed by VINNOVA Sweden's innovation agency. Elisabet Rothenberg is co-author in several text books in the area of health, disease and nutrition and a frequently hired lecturer. She has an extensive experience of involvement in national and international guideline committees within the field of nutrition care and in education activities on different academically levels and also for professionals with in the field of malnutrition. She has been president of the Swedish Association of Clinical Dietitians for 16 years.

Current position and assignments

Currently she has a position as assistant professor at Kristianstad University at department of Food and Meal Science with responsibility for the part of the education within food and meal science concerning nutrition and health. She has an assignment as president in SWESPEN the Swedish branch of the European Society of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism. She also lead of a specialist network of geriatric dietitians in Europe on the behalf of the European Federation of Associations of Dietitians (EFAD). She is member of the National Food Agencys´ expert group on nutrition and public health and expert in The National Board of Health and Welfare project studying the scientific evidence for hospital diets.

Current research

She is a reacher within in the ongoing epidemiological Gerontological and Geriatric population studies - H70 of older adults in Gothenburg. Looking at trans secular trends and longitudinal development in food habits, energy and nutrient intake, anthropometry and body composition in relation to health. She is also involved in an epidemiological study on the relation between food habits and cardiovascular risk factors in 50-year olds.