Carolyn Taylor-Bryan - MBBS (UWI), DM (Pediatrics), PhD (Nutrition)
Clinical Research FellowSome quote
Carolyn Taylor-Bryan is a paediatrician and lecturer at Tropical Metabolism Research Unit (TMRU). After obtaining her BSc. Degree in Chemistry and Biochemistry, she completed her MBBS and DM in pediatrics from the Faculty of Medical Sciences, from The University of the West Indies (UWI). She joined the Tropical Medicine Research Institute, now Caribbean Institute for Health Research, in 2003 as a clinical research fellow In 2014. She was awarded the PhD in Nutrition for her thesis entitled “Programming of macronutrient utilization in healthy Jamaican children and its influence on their body composition”.
She managed the Tropical Metabolism Research Unit Ward for 13 years (2004 – 2017), gaining experience in the nutritional rehabilitation of severely undernourished children. Her research interests include identification of risk factors for childhood obesity. Her current research work includes examining risk factors for childhood obesity and developing educational interventions for mothers to reduce this risk. This has involved the use of stable isotope methodology to accurately measure body composition.
Research Activity
Principal Investigator, "Assessment of Risk Factors for Childhood Obesity and the Impact of an Educational Intervention on Infant Feeding, Growth and Body Composition" (an IAEA grant)
Principal Investigator, “The impact of a nutrition-based educational intervention on the development of obesity in a cohort of children from 2 years to 5 years of age" (Ministry of Health and Wellness Grant).
Selected Publications
Schulze K, Swaminathan S, Howell S, Jajoo A, Lie N, Brown O, Sadat R, Hall N, Zhao L, Marshall K, May T, Reid M, Taylor-Bryan C, Wang X, Belmont J, Guan Y, Manary M, Trehan I, McKenzie C, Hanchard N. Edematous severe acute malnutrition is characterized by hypomethylation of DNA. Nature Communications 2019, 10 (1), 1-13 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13433-6
Taylor-Byan CR, Badaloo AV, Boyne MS, Osmond C, Forrester TE. The association of early life factors with body composition in peripubertal Jamaican children. Vol 67, Issue 5:2018: Special Issue Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of The University of the West Indies. Published 31 December, 2018. DOI: 10.7727/wimj.2018.166
Boyne MS, Thame M, Osmond C, Fraser RA, Gabay L, Taylor-Bryan C, Forrester TE. The effect of earlier puberty on cardiometabolic risk factors in Afro-Caribbean children. J. Pediatr. Endocr Met 2014, May 1;27(5-6); 453-60.
Contact
Telephone
(876) 927-1884
carolyn.taylorbryan@uwimona.edu.jm
