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The Journal Club – 2025
with Chen Saat Murphy MSc, PgcertHE, dipNT, mNTOI
The Journal Club monthly sessions aim to help practicing or non-practicing Nutritional Therapists graduates and students develop a greater level of confidence in reading and understanding the scientific literature, ultimately being able to use primary evidence meaningfully to support intervention decision-making while, at the same time, understanding controversies and limitations of this data in the context of NT.
These sessions will also aim to keep you up to date in terms of new and important research that is being published, as well as covering some historical and seminal papers that helped to shape our current knowledge or affect government guidelines.
Strong research, analysis and critical thinking and evaluation skills are key skills for all NTs, and while we develop them while completing our diplomas/ degrees continue and practice them and can contribute to our own practice and the reputation of the industry.
In each 2-hour session, we will focus on one paper and may have a shorter discussion on a review or an opinion paper if time permits. We will start with a relatively simple RCT (see below). In later sessions, can delve into more complex research, meta-analyses etc. You are welcome to send in specific papers on topics you are interested in covering.
In this May 2025 session, the RCT we will evaluate together is from the Tim Spector team: Effects of a personalized nutrition program on cardiometabolic health: a randomized controlled trial.
Once you register we will send you a link to the paper and the form to help you prepare in advance.
** For full participation it is expected you will have prepared in advance!
📅 Date: Thursday, 8th May 7-9pm
⏰ Time: 19:00 – 21.00am GMT
📍 Location: Online (Link provided upon registration)
Fee: €10/£8.50
2 NTOI points awarded on completion of this event.
Recording will not be available afterwards.
About Chen saat murphy
Chen Murphy graduated with a Master of Science Degree in Personalised Nutrition from CNELM in 2015 and was awarded a distinction. Prior to that, she was qualified as a Nutritional Therapist from the Institute of Health Sciences (IHS), Dublin in 2011.
She founded her Galway-based, personalised nutrition practice, shortly after graduating from IHS, and sees clients on a one-to-one basis, while applying the Functional Medicine Model. Chen has a special interest in inflammatory diseases, women’s health, vitality, and mind-body- behaviour connection.
In addition to her clinical practice, Chen was also a research assistant at the Department of Physiology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She has been lecturing and leading modules on Personalised Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy, both for a diploma level and a master level since 2017. Chen currently teaches for CNELM and also IINH (Research and Immune modules). She is currently completing a post-graduate Cert in Teaching for Higher Education at Middlesex University.
