Dr Angela Titmuss
Senior Research Fellow
Qualifications:
PhD, Charles Darwin University, 2022
Fellowship of Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 2015
Master of Public Health, University of NSW, 2008
B Medicine / B Surgery (Hons 1), University of NSW, 2007
B Science (Medicine) (Hons 1), University of NSW, 2007
Approved level of HDR supervision at Charles Darwin University:
PhD (non-primary supervisor)
Location:
Darwin - Royal Darwin Hospital
Biography:
Angela Titmuss is a paediatric endocrinologist and paediatrician at Royal Darwin Hospital and Senior Research Fellow at Menzies School of Health Research, working within the youth type 2 diabetes team of the diabetes across the Lifecourse: Northern Australian Partnership. Her PhD explored the prevalence and characteristics of youth-onset type 2 diabetes among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people in northern Australia. It also explored the impact of maternal hyperglycaemia in pregnancy on the growth, cardiometabolic profile and developmental risk of children, part of the Pregnancy and Neonatal Diabetes Outcomes in Remote Australia (PANDORA) study. Her PhD work was supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship, the Royal Australasian College of Physicians NHMRC Woolcock Award, the Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation, the Diabetes Australia Research Program, and a NHMRC Hot North PhD Completion Scholarship.
She is an Investigator on several studies exploring prevention strategies for obesity and type 2 diabetes in childhood, as well as the development of new models of care for management of youth-onset type 2 diabetes, and youth engagement. She is the only paediatric endocrinologist in the Northern Territory and also provides outreach and clinical support across the region. She sits on multiple regional and national representative bodies regarding youth-onset type 2 diabetes and has been heavily involved in clinical guideline development and workforce education.
Research Themes
- Indigenous health
- Diabetes and kidney disease
- Youth health
- Preventative health
