Leah Gramlich
Contact
Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry - Medicine Dept
- lg3@ualberta.ca
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Nutrition implementation science
About
Leah Gramlich is a gastroenterologist and physician nutrition specialist based out of the Royal Alexandra Hospital. She is a professor of Medicine at the University of Alberta. She has held many leadership positions and is currently the Provincial Medical Advisor for Nutrition Services in Alberta Health Services. She sits on several Strategic Clinical Networks. She is the medical lead for ERAS Alberta. She is innovative, creative and leads clinical and academic teams and achieves success with strategic thinking, connectivity, capability and empathy.
She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at University of Alberta in 1987 and completed her gastroenterology fellowship there. She did a fellowship in nutrition and metabolism at Harvard prior to returning to Edmonton to lead clinical nutrition programs in the region.
Leah Is the founding president of the Canadian Nutrition Society which brings the broad based nutrition community together across Canada. She is a member of the Board of directors of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. She is the chair of the Canadian Malnutrition Task force.
Leah leads and contributes actively to many research teams spanning basic, applied and health systems research. Research foci include Enhancing Recovery After Surgery, Nutrition Care, Malnutrition, Home Nutrition Support, Nutrition and Cancer and Nutrition Education.
Leah is the recipient of the national 2018 Khursheed Jeejeebhoy Award in honor of Leadership linking nutrition research and practice.
Leah and her partner of 30 years Maria live with their two sons in Glenora. They thrive within a large family that extends to the community. Her other interests include walking, reading, yoga, scrabble and anything in nature. She strives for peace and balance.Clinical Interests
Gastroenterology: large general GI practice with 25 years in practice of gastroenterology and nutrition
Nutrition Support Teams
Home nutrition support: Northern Alberta Home Parenteral Nutrition Program for patients with chronic IF supporting over 75 patients
Northern Alberta Home Enteral Nutrition Program for patients unable to eat by mouth supporting over 500 patients
Malnutrition: novel clinic started in 2017 to address malnourished patients identified in hospital
Research
Key Research areas include:
1. Enhancing Recovery: using implementation science to change practice
knowledge generation in various surgical populations related to nutrition and nutrition care - eg - body compmosition
clinical trials in surgery populations: eg - carbohydrate loading in diabetics
2. Malnutrition: - causes, contributors, changing practice through implementation science
3. Nutrition support - enteral and parenteral nutrition: timing, dose, composition, strategies to reduce harm and enhance benefits in inpatients and outpatients
4. Nutrition Education: patients/public, undergraduate, postgraduate - standards, tools, strategies
Teaching
Leah provides teaching for a wide variety of learners at various stages of training across a number of faculties including Medicine, Nursing and Nutrition. She developed a nutrition fellowship program which is only one of two such programs available in Canada. With her work in Enhanced Recovery she is the the co-supervisor of two stellar PhD students (Lisa Martin, Chelsea Gillis) both of whom have received major grants in support of their studies and work. She is supervisor for Melita Avdagovska in her PhD study into how EMR's and patient portals work - she is recipient of a CIHR award for study. She sits on 3 other PhD committees.
Featured Publications
Baghbani-Naghadehi F., Armijo-Olivo S., Prado C.M., Gramlich L., Woodhouse L.J.
BMC clinical. 2022 December; 23 (1) 10.1186/s12891-022-04997-4
Martin L., Tom M., Basualdo-Hammond C., Baracos V., Gramlich L.
Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. 2022 August; 46 (6):1317-1325 10.1002/jpen.2348
Ma C.H., Cruz C., Eslamparast T., Taylor L., Farhat K., Shommu N., Kumar A., Fitzgerald Q., Martin L., Bai W., Gramlich L., Raman M., Tandon P.
Clinical Nutrition ESPEN. 2022 August; 50 10.1016/j.clnesp.2022.05.010
Limon-Miro A.T., Jackson C.D., Eslamparast T., Yamanaka-Okumura H., Plank L.D., Henry C.J., Madden A.M., Ferreira L.G., Kalaitzakis E., Prieto de Frías C., Knudsen A.W., Gramlich L., Raman M., Alberda C., Belland D., Den Heyer V., Tandon P., Morgan M.Y.
Journal of hepatology. 2022 July; 77 (1):98-107 10.1016/j.jhep.2022.01.005
Russell L., Gramlich L.
Nutrition in Clinical Practice. 2022 April; 37 (2):388-392 10.1002/ncp.10756
Capicio M., Panesar S., Keller H., Gramlich L., Popeski N., Basualdo-Hammond C., Atkins M., Chan C.B.
Nutrients. 2022 March; 14 (5) 10.3390/nu14051110
Correia M.I.T.D., Tappenden K.A., Malone A., Prado C.M., Evans D.C., Sauer A.C., Hegazi R., Gramlich L.
JPEN. 2022 March; 41 (3):687-697 10.1016/j.clnu.2022.01.018
Daoud D.C., Cartagena E.M.S., Schwenger K.J.P., Somlaw N., Gramlich L., Whittaker S., Armstrong D., Jurewitsch B., Raman M., Duerksen D.R., McHattie J.D., Allard J.P.
Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. 2022 February; 46 (2):348-356 10.1002/jpen.2117
McIsaac D.I., Gill M., Boland L., Hutton B., Branje K., Shaw J., Grudzinski A.L., Barone N., Gillis C., Akhtar S., Atkins M., Aucoin S., Auer R., Basualdo-Hammond C., Beaule P., Brindle M., Bittner H., Bryson G., Carli F., Eskander A., Fata P., Fergusson D., Fiore J., Forster A., Gillam M., Gramlich L., Holroyd-Leduc J., Jackson T., Jacobsohn E., Khadaroo R., Lalu M., Love C., Martel G., McCartney C., McKeen D., Meliambro A., Moloo H., Moore R., Muscedere J., Nantel J., Poitras S., Scheede-Bergdahl C., Taljaard M., Wallace T., Wijeysundera D.
British Journal of Anaesthesia. 2022 February; 128 (2):244-257 10.1016/j.bja.2021.11.014
Gillis C., Gill M., Gramlich L., Culos-Reed S.N., Nelson G., Ljungqvist O., Carli F., Fenton T.
Canadian Journal of Surgery. 2021 December; 64 (6):E578-E587 10.1503/CJS.014420
Parrish R.H., Findley R., Elias K.M., Kramer B., Johnson E.G., Gramlich L., Nelson G.S.
Annals of Medicine and Surgery. 2021 December; 73 10.1016/j.amsu.2021.103178
Gillis C., Gill M., Gramlich L., Culos-Reed S.N., Nelson G., Ljungqvist O., Carli F., Fenton T.
Canadian Journal of Surgery. 2021 November; 64 (6):E578-E587 10.1503/CJS.014420
Gillis C., Richer L., Fenton T.R., Gramlich L., Keller H., Culos-Reed S.N., Sajobi T.T., Awasthi R., Carli F.
Journal of Surgery. 2021 September; 170 (3):841-847 10.1016/j.surg.2021.04.003
Rubino M., Jin J., Gramlich L.
Nutrition in Clinical Practice. 2021 September; 10.1002/ncp.10764
eBook. 2021 September; 10.1007/978-3-030-63892-4
Nelson G., Wang X., Nelson A., Faris P., Lagendyk L., Wasylak T., Bathe O.F., Bigam D., Bruce E., Buie W.D., Chong M., Fairey A., Hyndman M.E., Maclean A., McCall M., Pin S., Wang H., Gramlich L.
JAMA Network Open. 2021 August; 4 (8) 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.19769
Huysentruyt K., Brunet-Wood K., Bandsma R., Gramlich L., Fleming-Carroll B., Hotson B., Byers R., Lovelace H., Persad R., Kalnins D., Martinez A., Marchand V., Vachon M., Hulst J.M.
Nutrients. 2021 August; 13 (8) 10.3390/nu13082635
Sorensen J., Fletcher H., Macdonald B., Whittington-Carter L., Nasser R., Gramlich L.
Canadian journal of dietetic practice and research :. 2021 July; 82 (4):167-175 10.3148/cjdpr-2021-013
Clermont-Dejean N.M., Schwenger K.J.P., Salazar E., Colombo F.F., Lu Z., Lou W., Gramlich L., Whittaker S., Armstrong D., Jurewitsch B., Raman M., Duerksen D.R., McHattie J.D., Murthy S., Allard J.P.
Clinical Nutrition. 2021 July; 40 (7):4616-4623 10.1016/j.clnu.2021.06.012
Noelting J., Gramlich L., Whittaker S., Armstrong D., Marliss E., Jurewitsch B., Raman M., Duerksen D.R., Stevenson D., Lou W., Saha S., Allard J.P.
Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. 2021 July; 45 (5):1083-1088 10.1002/jpen.1984
Gillis C., Richer L., Fenton T.R., Gramlich L., Keller H., Culos-Reed S.N., Sajobi T.T., Awasthi R., Carli F.
Surgery (United States). 2021 January; 10.1016/j.surg.2021.04.003
Wollny K., Metcalfe A., Corrigan C., Drobot A., Gilmour L., Wood S., Wilson R.D., Gramlich L., Nelson G.
Birth. 2021 January; 10.1111/birt.12561
Klassen P., Baracos V., Gramlich L., Nelson G., Mazurak V., Martin L.
Nutrients. 2020 December; 12 (12):1-12 10.3390/nu12123745
Findlay M., Bauer J.D., Dhaliwal R., de van der Schueren M., Laviano A., Widaman A., Martin L., Day A.G., Gramlich L.M.
Nutrients. 2020 December; 12 (12):1-17 10.3390/nu12123808
Thanh N., Nelson A., Wang X., Faris P., Wasylak T., Gramlich L., Nelson G.
Canadian journal of surgery. Journal canadien de chirurgie. 2020 November; 63 (6):E542-E550 10.1503/cjs.006720