Grace O’Malley

Grace O’Malley, PhD, M.Sc, PT is a paediatric physiotherapist working at Temple Street Children’s University Hospital. She specializes in the assessment and evidence-based management of children and adolescents who are obese and coordinates the Temple Street W82GO Healthy Lifestyles Programme. She is a HRB Clinical PhD Fellow and Student of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College Cork and her research interests include the pathophysiology of Type 2 Diabetes in youth; the co-morbidities of obesity and the use of remote technologies and telemedicine in obesity management. Grace is the Chair of the Association for the study of Obesity on the Island of Ireland (www.asoi.info) and a Board member of the European Childhood Obesity Group.