Dr Agathe Daria Jadczak joins the CRE Frailty & Healthy Ageing

Dr Agathe Daria Jadczak (former CRE in Frailty and Healthy Ageing PhD student) recently completed her PhD with the Adelaide G-TRAC Centre, Adelaide Medical School, University of Adelaide.

Dr Jadczak  has just started her postdoctoral position within the CRE in Frailty and Healthy Ageing research group lead by Prof Renuka Visvanathan.

Her PhD investigated various strategies to treat and prevent frailty in community-dwelling older people. She focused on medical education programs, exercise advice provided by general practitioners and the impact of exercise programs combined with nutritional approach.

Dr Jadczak is currently coordinating the EXPRESS Study (EXercise and PRotein Effectiveness Supplementation Study), a community based intervention study in cooperation with CSIRO. She is investigating the feasibility and the effects of exercise in combination with protein supplementation on physical function in frail older adults. The study is expected to finish mid this year.

Dr Jadczak also continues her research into exercise advice provided by general practitioners and the impact of medical education programs, and will focus on exercise prescription in clinical practice as a strategy to treat, prevent and delay frailty in our community in her new role as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow.