Current NHS consultant posts held
Highly Specialist Dietitian in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) at University College London Hospital (UCLH) 2010-Present
Research interests
I was the BDA representative for the UK IBD audit and a subgroup member for the Inpatient Experience, Inpatient Care and Organisational Audits from March 2012 to audit completion.
I am currently the BDA representative for IBD UK and contributed to the recently published IBD standards which were published in Frontline Gastroenterology. I am currently involved in supporting the launch of the new IBD UK patient survey and IBD benchmarking tools.
Personal interests
Painting and drawing
Visiting art galleries
Yoga
Cooking
Awards received
8 month Research Internship awarded via open competition to support the application for the
NIHR Clinical Academic Fellowship (01/11/2016)
6 month Research Internship via Great Ormond Street Hospital in open competition to support the NIHR clinical academic PhD fellowship application (01/10/2015)
The PEN Group Clinical Update Course in Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition validated by the British Dietetic Association – Successfully completed and passed (01/09/2010)
Publications
Patel P, Keetarut K, Grimble G. Physiological Causes of Undernutrition chapter in: Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics in Nutrition Support Book Series. (ISBN 9781118993859, Book Editors: Dr Mary Hickson, Dr Sara Smith, Series Editor: Professor Kevin Whelan.
Keetarut K, Zacharopoulou-Otapasidou S, Majumdar A, Patel P. An evaluation of the feasibility and validity of a patient-administered Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (’MUST’) compared to Health Care Professional screening in an Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) outpatient clinic. J Hum Nutr Diet.
Keetarut K. Chapter 7.4: Gastrointestinal Disease Part 7.4.8: Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Section 7.
In Sixth Edition: Manual of Dietetic Practice. (Joan Gandy, Editor). Wiley Blackwell; 2016.
Di Caro S, Fragkos K.C, Keetarut K Koo HF, Sebepos-Rogers G Saravanapavan H Barragry Rogers J, Mehta SJ and Rahman F. Enteral Nutrition in Adult Crohn’s Disease: Toward a Paradigm Shift. Nutrients 2019 11(9)
