Associate Professor Lynne Chepulis
Associate Professor Medical Research Centre / Nursing
Qualifications: BSc, MSc, Mphil, PhD
About Lynne
Dr Chepulis has a background in physiology, with a specific interest in primary care research, particularly as it relates to the management of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. She is also interested in the links between diet and chronic disease (including cancer and diabetes). She currently leads a number of studies in diabetes epidemiology, including screening for gestational diabetes, and evaluating health system factors that can reduce equity in prescribing in primary care. Her work is strongly collaborative with PHOs, primary care, secondary care and Māori health providers.
Dr Chepulis also teaches applied health science and biomedical sciences within the nursing program, including at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Papers Taught
Research Supervised
PhDs
Danielle Morey (to commence 2022)
Lakeesha Sandamali (to commence 2022)
Kimberley Norman (in progress) Exploring the Lived Experiences and Barriers to Obesity Healthcare in Rural Waikato Communities from General Practitioner and Community Member Perspectives
Malgorzata Hirsz (2021). Symptoms and patient characteristics as criteria for diagnosis of colorectal cancer in primary and secondary care in New Zealand.
Wen Janice Lim (2021). Stopping the progression towards type 2 diabetes: hypoglycaemic potential of antioxidant-rich plant extracts.
MPhil
Ketel, Julian (2016). The biocidal activity of Manuka Cyclopower against strains of methicillin-resistant and sensitive Staphylococcus aureus in the anterior nostrils
Masters
Brittany Ryan (2019) Evaluating the effectiveness of an Education Group Intervention on the psychological wellbeing of breast cancer patients
Varun Varak (2019) Comparison of carbohydrate loading vs insulin adjustment in patients with Type 1 diabetes during exercise.
Research Interests
Primary care, Diabetes, Obesity, Epidemiology, Chronic disease development, Cancer, Clinical trials, Nutrition
Current projects include
i) evaluating health system factors that contribute to inequity in diabetes prescribing in primary care
ii) Use of continuous glucose monitors to support diabetes management in primary care
iii) microvascular complications in Type 1 diabetes
iv) ethnic disparity in screening for diabetes in pregnancy
v) exploring factors that contribute to poor medication adherence
vi) barriers to diagnosis and the effect of co-morbidities in patients with colorectal cancer
vi) NZ Public Health Nutrition (evaluation of sugars in SSBs, children's breakfast cereals,
processed foods)
Recent Publications
Lim, W. X. J., Gammon, C. S., von Hurst, P., Chepulis, L., & Page, R. A. (2022). The inhibitory effects of New Zealand Pine Bark (Enzogenol®) on α-Amylase, α-Glucosidase, and Dipeptidyl Peptidase-4 (DPP-4) Enzymes. Nutrients, 14(8). doi:10.3390/nu14081596
Chepulis, L., Mayo, C., Paul, R., Keenan, R., & Lawrenson, R. (2022). Variation in open access vildagliptin use in Waikato patients with type 2 diabetes. New Zealand Medical Journal, 135(1548), 77-88.
Chepulis, L., Morison, B., Tamatea, J., Paul, R., Wolmarans, L., & Martis, R. (2022). Midwifery awareness of diabetes in pregnancy screening guidelines in Aotearoa New Zealand. Midwifery, 106. doi:10.1016/j.midw.2021.103230
Lim, W. X. J., Gammon, C. S., von Hurst, P., Chepulis, L., Mugridge, O., & Page, R. A. (2022). Rooibos tea extract may help to reduce incretin demand in healthier prediabetes subgroup. In NSNZ 2021. [Virtual]: MDPI. doi:10.3390/msf2022009006
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Keywords
Biochemistry; Biology; Depression; Health; Population Studies; Science; Science Education
primary care, equity, medications, cancer research, sugar; nutrition; diabetes; disease; elderly, health