Kelly Lambert is an Associate Professor, and Advanced
Accredited Practising Dietitian and Academic Program Director for Nutrition and
Dietetics at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia. She
has more than two decades of clinical experience as a specialist kidney
dietitian. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition in 1995 and her
Master’s in Nutrition & Dietetics in 1997 from the University of
Wollongong. In 2018 she completed her PhD, which focused on the impact of health
literacy and cognitive impairment on dietary self-management in kidney failure.
She is an active member of the Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA) Kidney
Interest Group; the Australian New Zealand Society of Nephrology, the Renal
Society of Australasia, and the postgraduate Renal Nutrition Program. She is
also a member of several national and international high-level governance
committees including the Kidney Health Australia CARI Executive Steering
Committee, the Kidney Health Australia Clinical Advisory Committee, and the
ANZSN Policy Advisory Committee. In 2023 she was elected as one of only two
dietitians on the International Council of Renal Nutrition and Metabolism
Executive. Her research interests and values are supporting people with kidney
disease to live better lives, improving patient education by health
professionals, and educating future dietitians.
