Deepti Sharma

Deepti Sharma

Health and Medical Sciences Faculty Office

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

My research program is clinical nutrition and identifying preventative strategies to improve bone health across life stages. I am an experienced scientist with over 13 years of industrial research background before focussing on academic reserach in 2016. I am currently working as a post-doctoral researcher at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma Research. My current research project include investigating nutrition-gut-bone axis and to identify preventative strategies to reduce fracture risk due to osteoporosis.

Clinical Studies-

1. Investigating Nutritional Determinants of Bone Quality in Orthopaedic patients.

2. Investigating Functional outcomes in patients undergoing elective hip arthroplasty.

3. Investigating interactions between nutrition and gut health and its influence on bone metabolism. 

  • Language Competencies
    Language Competency
    English Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review

  • Education
    Date Institution name Country Title
    2016 - 2020 University of South Australia Australia PhD
    2000 - 2002 SNDT Women’s University India Masters
    1997 - 2000 University of Delhi India Bachelors of Applied Sciences

  • Certifications
    Date Title Institution name Country
    — Nutrition Labelling of Packaged Foods Central Food Technological Research Institute India
    — Nutrition Epidemiology Public Health Foundation of India India

  • Research Interests
    Bone and Bones Nutrition and Dietetics Nutritional Physiology

1. CALHN CEO Clinical Rapid Implementation Project Scheme (CRIPS), 2023, Next Generation Sequencing as a Precision Medicine Tool in the treatment and management of patients with Prosthetic Joint Infection (AI-A).

2. Research Infrastructure Funding Awards 2022, The University of Adelaide (CI-D)

3. Australian Orthopaedics Association, Project Grant, 2022, 'Is Gut dysbioisis responsible for Prosthetic Joint Infection'? (CI-C)

3. Industry Funding, Synergy Lifesciences, 2022 (CI-A)

4. Emerging Researcher Seed Funding, Bone Health Foundation, “Does Vitamin K affects Femoral Bone Quality? (CI-A)

5. Thee Royal Adelaide Hospital Project Grant, 2018 “Acute effects of supplemental and dietary calcium on bone turnover markers in lean and overweight post-menopausal women”, 2018 (CI-A).

6. Bone Health Foundation, Project Grant, 2018, Interaction between Visceral adiposity and Bone turnover (CI-B)

  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2025 Co-Supervisor Outcomes following revision total hip arthroplasty Master of Philosophy (Surgery) Master Full Time Mr Willis Thompson

  • Other Supervision Activities
    Date Role Research Topic Location Program Supervision Type Student Load Student Name
    2022 - 2022 Co-Supervisor The Role of B-vitamins and Homocysteine on Bone Microarchitecture in Patients undergoing Hip Arthroplasty The Royal Adelaide Hospital BACHELOR OF HEALTH AND MEDICAL SCIENCES Honours Full Time Nicole Bamhare
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