WCRF International Grant panel member

Dr Michelle Harvie
Research Dietitian
Nightingale and Genesis Prevention Centre
Wythenshawe Hospital
South Moor Road
Manchester
M23 9LT
E mail michelle.harvie@manchester.ac.uk

http://www.breastcentre.manchester.ac.uk/groups/harvie/index.html

Dr Michelle Harvie is a research dietitian from the Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention Centre University Hospital South Manchester Trust. She qualified as a dietitian in 1991 and was awarded a PhD for studies of weight gain in cancer patients in 2000. Her current programme of work is researching optimum diet and exercise strategies to prevent breast cancer and its recurrence. Her research has been published in many major scientific publications and she was awarded the British Dietetic Association Rose Simmond's Award for best published dietetic research 2005, for her work on weight gain among breast cancer patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy.

Dr Harvie is the principal investigator of the B-AHEAD study Breast - Activity & Healthy Eating After Diagnosis: A randomised comparison of 3 weight control programmes during adjuvant treatment for early breast cancer among 500 early breast cancer patients.