Rate My Professor Minako Kataoka

Currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago since May 2022, her doctoral research investigates 'New Zealand oral health professionals and nutrition care: needs, competence and barriers', supervised by Rachael McLean, Lee Adam, and Lauren Ball. Her academic interests encompass nutrition education in oral health curricula, diabetes nutritional management, glycaemic index testing, and innovative teaching methods like flipped learning in dietetics education. Notable publications include 'Nutrition Education and Practice in University Dental and Oral Health Programmes and Curricula: A Scoping Review' (2024, European Journal of Dental Education), 'Nutritional intervention in patients with type 2 diabetes who will fast during Ramadan' (2010, BMJ), 'Developing Dietetic Students' Confidence in Multicultural Communication through Flipped Learning' (2021, Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior), 'Shifting from Lecturing to Flipped Learning - Unpacking Teachers’ Sensemaking during a Pandemic' (2022, New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies), and 'The use of different reference foods in determining the glycemic index of starchy and non-starchy test foods' (2014, Nutrition Journal). Her scholarly work has garnered over 500 citations on Google Scholar, reflecting impact in nutrition and public health fields.