Obesity Diet & Nutrition

Judy Ryan is a Registered Nurse in Intellectual Disability (RNID) and is pursuing her PhD from Trinity College Dublin. She is a Member of the Intellectual Disability Supplement to the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (IDS TILDA) research team. This longitudinal research study is examining ageing in intellectual disability in Ireland. Her research area of interest is obesity in adults with an intellectual disability (IDS TILDA), and she has published and presented her research internationally. She is the Director of a Regional Nurse and Midwifery Planning and Development Unit for the Health Service in Ireland. With 30 years’ of experience in Nursing, she has worked in intellectual disability services in Ireland, Scotland and the UK and is a Member of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disability (IASSIDD) and Nursing Network Intellectual Disability Ireland (NNIDI).